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Post by piccadillypilot on Jul 8, 2005 12:05:18 GMT
Four articles culled from the pages of The Railway Magazine of December 1927. A major article in the "Notable Stations and Their Traffic" stream - Baker StreetDetails of a new installation at Ealing Common Car CleaningAn innovation by the Metropolitan Rly. bus serviceBuilding work by the Underground Group, a new Head Ofice |
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Post by Christopher J on Jul 8, 2005 17:11:18 GMT
Very interesting articles to read. Thanks for sharing those with us, PP.  |
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Post by Colin on Jul 8, 2005 20:58:08 GMT
Don't spose you know which road the Ealing wash was on by some chance?
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Post by piccadillypilot on Jul 8, 2005 21:21:44 GMT
Don't spose you know which road the Ealing wash was on by some chance? I've simply copied the article, intact, from the pages of said magazine. Regretably I wasn't working for the Combine in 1927 to observe it's installation. And I can't think of anyo...... (calls) Q8? |
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Post by russe on Jul 9, 2005 13:04:51 GMT
Thanks for those, PP. The Baker Street article was particularly useful - the scheduling of the GWR Smithfield goods trains has been something of a mystery to many GWR fans, and it was great to see them listed in detail.
Russ
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jul 9, 2005 13:48:43 GMT
Don't spose you know which road the Ealing wash was on by some chance? Well, my guess as there are windows in the wall visable behind the wash, it's 11 Ealing. |
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Post by q8 on Jul 9, 2005 14:07:38 GMT
Well, my guess as there are windows in the wall visable behind the wash, it's 11 Ealing
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I'd think that was right too. (It may be JUST possible it's 1 Acton where the lifting stuff is now.
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Post by q8 on Jul 9, 2005 18:04:31 GMT
Lovely little items there. Does anyone know what year Chiltern Court was built? I have a vague feeling it was 1931?
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Post by DWS on Jul 9, 2005 18:29:15 GMT
Lovely little items there. Does anyone know what year Chiltern Court was built? I have a vague feeling it was 1931? A photo in the item about Baker Street shows a short siding along side platform 1 which was used to bring in building material's used to build Chiltern Court, it was built before 1931. |
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Post by piccadillypilot on Jul 9, 2005 18:37:50 GMT
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Post by q8 on Jul 10, 2005 3:25:00 GMT
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Post by piccadillypilot on Jul 10, 2005 8:41:09 GMT
Sorry, unnoticed typo. Make it 1929 and it should fall into place. |
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Post by q8 on Jul 10, 2005 10:58:04 GMT
Make it 1929 and it should fall into place.
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1929 it is. But that still doesn't explain why there is no Chiltern Court in the photo if it was built in 1920?
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Post by q8 on Jul 10, 2005 11:28:25 GMT
 CHILTERN COURT. According to the book "London's Metropolitan Railway" (David & Charles £29 ISBN 0-7153-8839-8) Construction Started on Chiltern Court on 2/8/1927 and it was formally opend by the deputy Chairman Sir Clarendon Hyde on 15/11/1929. The building was wrongly dated by Sir John Betjeman as 1913.
This is backed up by "The History Of London Transport" Vol ii which also gives a completion date of 1929. The 1920 date was a proposal that was unable to gain sufficient finance and was never built apart from the collonaded portico seen in the picture.
The dates given above would fit in the with photo shown on this thread being taken in 1927
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Post by piccadillypilot on Jul 10, 2005 11:41:08 GMT
Make it 1929 and it should fall into place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1929 it is. But that still doesn't explain why there is no Chiltern Court in the photo if it was built in 1920? That's because it wasn't built in 1920. As I said that date was a typo which should have read 1929. |
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Post by q8 on Jul 10, 2005 13:55:40 GMT
That's because it wasn't built in 1920. As I said that date was a typo which should have read 1929.
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Sorry PP. I misunderstood your post.
The"Ancient One" (or dozy old git according to some)
(Now goes off to fit an A60 motor to his zimmer frame)
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CHILTERN COURT.
