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Post by tubeprune on Jun 28, 2011 6:01:48 GMT
3.1, thanks for the link to the photos. Seeing the shots of Room 102 reminds me of the time when we used to teach Single Line Working. What used to take place in Room 101. I can't remember. I don't think it was a lecture room. It might even have been the room where we left the rubbish! |
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Post by auxsetreq on Jul 25, 2011 9:25:15 GMT
A secret contact has just sent me these top-secret scans of the interior of The WCTC . Three out of many. I'd be here all day uploading if I was to do the lot.......... A similar set-up to this one shown at the old WCTC is now at Hainault in the old locker room. Points, ice scrapers, SCDs, clips etc...............Always freezing in there, the one at Hainault that is. Hardly surprising as it used to be a morgue during the war, so I'm told............... i56.tinypic.com/2z82d8x.jpgWhere an instructor demonstrated an arc. The 630v feed was taken from the old WC depot as I recall. "Anyone wearing glasses should take them off now" he'd intone. I think this was to stop any reflections geting into one's eyes as the arc produced could dazzle to say the least. One was told to "look away" obviously..........After that, or was it before, we'd play the "put down an SCD game" The winner would get a Gryphon apple bakewell as a prize . I think it was apple as the filling was always green and hairy once you've broken through the concrete crust with a Kango...... i56.tinypic.com/9ub2v7.jpgThe Westinghouse Brake room. Red pipe for main line and blue pipe for train line airs. I had my scary motorman's oral exam in that room and clearly remember that rubber pipe dangling in the background behind my tortuous interrogator. He was so rude and nasty that I was thinking " If I was to disconnect that I could club him with it" But I didn't as I needed the extra money at the time................... i52.tinypic.com/245yic4.jpg |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2011 19:54:12 GMT
Wow - that takes me back - 45+ years in fact, just after the RTC opened (in 1963 I think).
Thanks for the photos - great stuff!
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Post by Tom on Jul 25, 2011 20:27:41 GMT
It seems so bare!
Saying that I remember a similar look in the Old Acton signal school (which had been demoted to a store room by the time I went there) and parts of the Engineering Training Centre. And this was only eleven years ago!
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Post by auxsetreq on Jul 26, 2011 14:35:58 GMT
Forgot to mention. The winner of the SCD game got the Gryphon apple bakewell. The loser got sat in a chair connected to this before the ultimate disgrace - Being sent back to one's depot disguised in a giant batter coating as a Toad In The Hole............ i54.tinypic.com/2mpgcqe.jpgWhat's this? A C69, 72 or 73 *One Arm Bandit*- I'd say at a guess 73 as the two never used ATO *start* buttons are covered over as they were then when I was on them. There's the switch slot for the control key even though confusingly it looks like a guard's key being used, perhaps it is for the doors, dunno, and the receptacle for the reverser key. But no slot for the winnings................I won £4.63 on Euro Millions the other day, so who cares about a slot. i55.tinypic.com/2nk51jk.jpg |
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Post by tubeprune on Jul 26, 2011 14:55:17 GMT
The rooms are very bare. I think they are in the process of being stripped. We used a large mobile blackboard in front of the Westinghouse brake equipment to teach train equipment. We had to draw the Westinghouse, then the e.p. then PCM power circuits etc. as we taught. I preferred train equipment to R & R.
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Post by railtechnician on Jul 26, 2011 23:27:24 GMT
It seems so bare! Saying that I remember a similar look in the Old Acton signal school (which had been demoted to a store room by the time I went there) and parts of the Engineering Training Centre. And this was only eleven years ago! That school looked quite bare while we were doing our Tech 2S there! Personally I liked the Earl's Court signal school and my own Wood Lane Comms school although it was hard to beat the combined Signal & Comms new works school at South Woodford, I spent a little over four years in those establishments as a Comms instructor and conducting new entrant trade tests. |
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Post by Ben on Aug 23, 2011 18:55:17 GMT
Sorry to bump.
Came across an artical in the June 1966 edition of 'UNDERGROUND' magazine on the architectural deails of the 'New LT training centre at White City'.
Its quite long, possibly 2½ sides of A4, but if anyone would like to know some facts and figures I could possibly paraphrase some of it?
One thing I'll note though is that most of the building was provided with 2'x2' asbestos false ceiling panels.
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Post by slugabed on Aug 23, 2011 19:48:52 GMT
One thing I'll note though is that most of the building was provided with 2'x2' asbestos false ceiling panels. Pretty standard spec at the time. My school (built 1956) had exactly the same provision.There were remarks made by teachers,but I think the only amelioration work done was to paint them (more sensible than it sounds,as it "glues" the asbestos fibres in place). The legacy of asbestos in post-war buildings is one which will keep peole busy for years to come. |
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Post by auxsetreq on Aug 26, 2011 15:18:14 GMT
It was a typical Corbusier style " Machine for living In " or "learning in" design from that period. Typical 50's/60's retro future it was painted inside in a ghastly pink. Some of the rooms were an *A* shape that were all wall with some glass fanlights at the apex of the *A*. Wood, mahogany if I recall, and zig zag metal staircase balustrades were found in the foyer, so typical of that time. Those *A* shaped rooms got boiling hot in the summer as there was little ventilation due to the bad design. Like many of it's hideous counterparts from those times ( streets in the sky tower blocks ) it's a well deserved demolition. Though you may recall, Ronan Point half demolished it's jerry built self.....................
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