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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 9:43:49 GMT
When were Station Masters, Station Inspectors and Divisional Inspectors turned into their current forms?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 11:16:39 GMT
On 3/1/72 -
Operating Assistant redesignated “Traffic Manager”.
Divisional Inspector redesignated “Area Manager”.
Yard Master and Station Master redesignated “Yard Manager” and “Station Manager”.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 11:18:19 GMT
On 20/9/71 -
Divisional “Superintendents” retitled Divisional “Managers”.
It's been all downhill from there ;D ;D ;D
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Post by trt on Jan 29, 2013 11:19:17 GMT
What's all this "Centurion" business about?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 11:23:52 GMT
Thanks reganorak. Reason I asked is because I discovered a piece of paper with Auto numbers on attached to a wall in a forgotten about staff area in a station on the Victoria line. It was typed with a typewriter and caked in dust!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 11:46:07 GMT
What's all this "Centurion" business about? The Centurion concept was implemented by Denis Tunnicliffe in the early-1990s. The idea was so that all staff had an identifiable "boss". |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 11:47:10 GMT
Thanks reganorak. Reason I asked is because I discovered a piece of paper with Auto numbers on attached to a wall in a forgotten about staff area in a station on the Victoria line. It was typed with a typewriter and caked in dust! Fascinating find! I bet the numbers were 4 digits too! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 14:25:49 GMT
Thanks reganorak. Reason I asked is because I discovered a piece of paper with Auto numbers on attached to a wall in a forgotten about staff area in a station on the Victoria line. It was typed with a typewriter and caked in dust! Fascinating find! I bet the numbers were 4 digits too! Indeed they are. I did take a picture that I can post (if a moderator can confirm I won't be breaking any rules). |
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Post by railtechnician on Jan 29, 2013 15:31:49 GMT
Thanks reganorak. Reason I asked is because I discovered a piece of paper with Auto numbers on attached to a wall in a forgotten about staff area in a station on the Victoria line. It was typed with a typewriter and caked in dust! Fascinating find! I bet the numbers were 4 digits too! Of course they were, back in the day there were 14 Strowger exchanges serving the railway. All LT auto exchanges were 4 digit prior to 1983 except Telstar House which had 5 digit 27XXX numbers serving Telstar House and 10A Wood Lane 2XXX Loughton, Hounslow West & Barking 3XXX Harrow-on-the-Hill 4XXX Leicester Square, East Finchley, Stockwell & Golders Green 5XXX Aldgate 6XXX Finsbury Park 7XXX Baker Street 8XXX Earls Court 9XXX St James Park (aka HO) 0XXX Acton Town Leicester Square was also the tandem exchange through which all the satellite exchanges connected to one another. As far as I recall the Victoria line was served by Leicester Square (central area), Baker Street (Oxford Circus), Finsbury Park (Walthamstow to Euston) and Stockwell (Stockwell to Brixton) exchanges. Thus the numbers on the scrap of paper are likely to be 4XXX or 6XXX depending upon the location. 30 years ago I was based at Embankment where the chargehand's number was an unadvertised number on HO exchange - 9626 Prior to that I was based at Whitechapel depot where the signal installation supervisors numbers were 5425 and 5435 |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 15:49:33 GMT
I remember the first (Saturday) morning of the 5-digit numbers - I was the early shift Head Controller at 55 Broadway - it was a rather quiet morning if my memory is correct!
I am also fairly sure that the 9xxx (head office) numbers were the only ones that we couldn't get a 'priority' over, if the number we wanted was engaged.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 15:51:37 GMT
Am I also right in thinking that the telephone exchanges at Earl's Court and Finsbury Park were built in disused lift shafts at the bottom? Seems to ring a bell with me (sorry about the pun!).
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Post by mrfs42 on Jan 29, 2013 17:01:28 GMT
Am I also right in thinking that the telephone exchanges at Earl's Court and Finsbury Park were built in disused lift shafts at the bottom? Seems to ring a bell with me (sorry about the pun!). Yes, me too. I've seen reference somewhere to those locations. |
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Post by mrfs42 on Jan 29, 2013 17:09:45 GMT
Fascinating find! I bet the numbers were 4 digits too! Indeed they are. I did take a picture that I can post (if a moderator can confirm I won't be breaking any rules). If they're 4-digit numbers they've now been superceded (I think all have), so it should be alright. gulerodskage - look at your PMs, please. |
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Post by railtechnician on Jan 29, 2013 18:09:01 GMT
Am I also right in thinking that the telephone exchanges at Earl's Court and Finsbury Park were built in disused lift shafts at the bottom? Seems to ring a bell with me (sorry about the pun!). Earls Court, Finsbury Park, Leicester Square and Baker Street were all in disused lift shafts and not on the bottom but on multiple floors, the lowest level being a 'snake pit' for cable entry from the running tunnels, then one or two apparatus floors above and power plant at the top including the batteries which had to be topped up. We used to have a lorry run to deliver the carbuoys of distilled water for the batteries every so often. The exchanges were normally accessed from the bottom landing passageways but we had access from above for deliveries awkward though it was making such deliveries via escalator UMC, manhole from room above or access from track above! Finsbury Park was the smartest of those exchanges as the resident auto lineman treated it like home and was a dab hand with the red cardinal polish on the terra cotta tiled apparatus floor. Of course all those exchanges are long gone and the shafts have found new uses and the new MD110 exchanges which replaced the Strowger electromechanical exchanges were generally built in purpose built buildings at new locations above ground although one or two of the original exchanges were simply re-equipped as they were already above ground in suitable buildings. |
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Post by railtechnician on Jan 29, 2013 18:19:31 GMT
Indeed they are. I did take a picture that I can post (if a moderator can confirm I won't be breaking any rules). If they're 4-digit numbers they've now been superceded (I think all have), so it should be alright. gulerodskage - look at your PMs, please. Yep 5 digit numbering was implemented in 1983, all LT auto extensions became 5 digit. |
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