Uxbridge station in Lego

Although brilliant, were thay allowed to display maps outside stations in 1940?? After all, all the directional road signs had to be taken down, and you were told to listen for ze foreign accents if ein stranger for ze directions asked, (especially if wearing a Luftwaffe uniform)

Dummkopf!! Mit der Fighter Command Sector H Q just up ze road, Zey are not even likely to even Uxbridge have put outside ze station, or ze names of ze lines even. What is your name boy!!! Would more likely ze wrong name have been put there (such as "East Croydon") just to confuse us when we invaded.

Don't tell him Studhead. ;D

Stupid boy!!!!

Thats fantastic, the columns especially so! What a tremendous take on tube modeling! Will you be doing the trainshed?

Hmm, he does look a bit Japanese but I think his family are from Denmark.

If I can point out another minor error, the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster was never actually put up during the war. They were designed in 1939 to be displayed in the event of a major disaster, but never widely distributed.
This isn't specifically aimed at you studhead, but I actually find it a bit annoying that a poster which was meant to be used in the case of a tragedy so severe that none of the events of the war were felt to warrant its use is now so widely used in rather meaninglessly nostalgic manner.

studhead, that's really good. I tried to do a Leslie Green station out of Lego myself, it didn't get very far

It started off to reassure people as some were getting a bit twitchy, seeing German's next to every lampost (and Japs disguised as ARW's!), this was the phoney war after all. The authorities thought people might panic (they did later on in France and Belgium and making it virtually impossible to halt the German offensive). But people were just going about their business (this is where the saying 'It's That Man Again' from 50's radio came from - that man being the bloke with funny mustache and voice!). The poster made people who were taking the war in its stride worried as it came across that something odd was going on.

The best has to be this one, and it's LPTB too:



Go on Studland, put it on your wonderful model in place of the tube map.

lol yes it is, remembered the poster but forgot when it was from. A case of history repeating itself. Would be weird if it was a stylised bus from the 1940's though...

Uxbridge was not one of the stations recently listed as Grade II, but in my view it is one of the best - almost in the Arnos Grove league.

So be careful with this model - don't show it to English Heritage or they may list it - then you wouldn't be able to take it apart and build another masterpiece!

This is poster is quite recent (post 7/7), I think from around 2008, to do with all buses being equipped with iBus and CCTV.