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Post by londonstuff on Nov 14, 2016 13:49:38 GMT
I played this on YouTube because I liked the song and had no idea that the video was like this.
Lots of talking points - I don't remember the moquette for starters!
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Post by theblackferret on Nov 14, 2016 14:17:50 GMT
I played this on YouTube because I liked the song and had no idea that the video was like this. Lots of talking points - I don't remember the moquette for starters! On the assumption the vid comes from the same year as the Coming Up album (1996), the (Kingsway) suffix on the Holborn platform strongly suggests that it was shot on the by-then disused Aldwych branch platform. The colour banding on the walls suggests the same, as it looks like original Leslie Green tiling (note the Way Out cartouche is faded, indicating it is not likely to be a restored original, nor an imitation replacement) & the dancing in the Tube tunnel reinforces that thought. From what I remember, the moquette in use was standard fare in 1984-89, when I used the Piccadilly most weeks when working in London. Mrs tbf was doing the same between 1984-86 before we met, as she lived in Cockfosters & worked around Bank, and she remembers it well, but thinks it was also on the Central, though I don't recall it on my occasional lunch-time trips to Record & Tape Exchange @ Notting Hill Gate, from Oxford Circus.
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Post by superteacher on Nov 14, 2016 19:52:04 GMT
The blue moquette was the original 1973 stock version, which it retained until refurbishment. The Central line 1962 stock had a greyish moquette. The 1959 stock on the Northern had a blue moquette for a number of years.
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Post by paulsw2 on Nov 15, 2016 4:19:39 GMT
The blue moquette was the original 1973 stock version, which it retained until refurbishment. The Central line 1962 stock had a greyish moquette. The 1959 stock on the Northern had a blue moquette for a number of years. The blue moquette was also used on the early DMS and SMS buses
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Post by superteacher on Nov 15, 2016 5:17:30 GMT
The blue moquette was the original 1973 stock version, which it retained until refurbishment. The Central line 1962 stock had a greyish moquette. The 1959 stock on the Northern had a blue moquette for a number of years. The blue moquette was also used on the early DMS and SMS buses And if I'm not mistaken, the Leyland Nationals. It was also the original moquette on the C and 1972 Mk II stock.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Nov 15, 2016 5:55:35 GMT
Also a couple of RML Routematers at Hanwell garage for route 207 had grey/white interior and the blue moquette in place of the usual maroon/sung yellow.
Seem to recall the Bristol BL BS types at Kingston/Palmers Green/Holloway had blue moquette too.
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Post by paulsw2 on Nov 15, 2016 14:31:02 GMT
The blue moquette was also used on the early DMS and SMS buses And if I'm not mistaken, the Leyland Nationals. It was also the original moquette on the C and 1972 Mk II stock. This appears to be the standard LT moquette from 1970 till around 1977 I know the original D stock Moquette was also used on all the modern opo buses T M LS at the time as well
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Post by superteacher on Nov 15, 2016 20:34:13 GMT
And if I'm not mistaken, the Leyland Nationals. It was also the original moquette on the C and 1972 Mk II stock. This appears to be the standard LT moquette from 1970 till around 1977 I know the original D stock Moquette was also used on all the modern opo buses T M LS at the time as well Although the 1972 Mk I stock had the same moquette as the 1967 stock.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 13:32:50 GMT
Lovely video - thanks for posting. Lots of recognisable Tube behaviour and miserable faces! And great to see the now-hidden Holborn platform to Aldwych.
Am I right in thinking the lady who goes down the escalators is a young Keeley Hawes, from Ashes to Ashes?
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Nov 16, 2016 13:52:31 GMT
Am I right in thinking the lady who goes down the escalators is a young Keeley Hawes, from Ashes to Ashes? I'd say you were Dave and to be frank I sort of lost interest in whatever else was happening in the video after she pitched up.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 17:02:31 GMT
Am I right in thinking the lady who goes down the escalators is a young Keeley Hawes, from Ashes to Ashes? I'd say you were Dave and to be frank I sort of lost interest in whatever else was happening in the video after she pitched up. Understandable. She manages to make eating a bag of chips look cool and classy! I note there's a couple of scenes where you can spot a Tube train sitting just inside the tunnel mouth, awaiting its cue. And the scene of the lead singer boarding a train was filmed at what looks like Holloway Road. At least it says something 'Road' on the platform as the train pulls away, and I don't think it's Gillespie Road (Arsenal).
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Post by norbitonflyer on Nov 16, 2016 18:20:06 GMT
And the scene of the lead singer boarding a train was filmed at what looks like Holloway Road. At least it says something 'Road' on the platform as the train pulls away, and I don't think it's Gillespie Road (Arsenal). I think it's Caledonian Road - what little we see of the tiling pattern doesn't match Holloway Road (or Gloucester Road for that matter) . Nearly everything else appears to be filmed at Holborn (including the scene in the trackless tunnel), but the escalators look wrong (Holborn's upper flight has four banks, not three, and the lower flight does not end in a cross passage)
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Post by philthetube on Nov 18, 2016 15:17:46 GMT
Assuming that all shots were done with permission I am surprised that the running up the down escalator and the vaulting barriers shots were allowed.
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Post by rincew1nd on Nov 19, 2016 14:42:41 GMT
Ditto for the dog on the escalator. AIUI 'Dogs must be carried' as there is a risk of their claws becoming stuck in the combing.
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Post by theblackferret on Nov 19, 2016 16:38:45 GMT
And the scene of the lead singer boarding a train was filmed at what looks like Holloway Road. At least it says something 'Road' on the platform as the train pulls away, and I don't think it's Gillespie Road (Arsenal). I think it's Caledonian Road - what little we see of the tiling pattern doesn't match Holloway Road (or Gloucester Road for that matter) . Nearly everything else appears to be filmed at Holborn (including the scene in the trackless tunnel), but the escalators look wrong (Holborn's upper flight has four banks, not three, and the lower flight does not end in a cross passage) Caledonian Road fits exactly with the illustration in my Underground Stations Of Leslie Green by David Leboff, Capital Transport publication from 2002. More to the point, in there Gillespie Road has : between Gillespie & Road & the same after Road AND Arsenal above it, where the highly-pixilated image on the vid clearly shows two words at that point. Holloway Road also has those colons in the same places. It looks more likely Caledonian Road, than Gillespie, because there's probably 10 letters against nine. The clincher is the brown pattern in the tiling frieze present at the end of the name. At Gillespie & Holloway Roads this is a straight apparently black line, whereas Caledonian Road's is a curved castellate pattern and quite clearly brown.
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Post by theblackferret on Nov 19, 2016 20:35:41 GMT
but the escalators look wrong (Holborn's upper flight has four banks, not three, and the lower flight does not end in a cross passage) In Aqua's Turn Back time from 1998, also slated as being filmed at Holborn-it's the same escalator as in Suede, but frustratingly filmed from the bottom of the blasted escalator so we can't see the lack of a cross passage. However, Aqua moved on to Bank for the 2nd bit of theirs-would the escalators there fit your bill?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 18:30:50 GMT
If you want some odd nostalgia, a Pet Shop Boys video was shot in Kings Cross Underground Station just a few weeks before the fire in 1987.
"Kings Cross" was used as a charity single to raise money for the victims. It's weird that it seemed to predict the fire.
Here....
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Post by Tom on Nov 21, 2016 22:35:55 GMT
I wonder if the video was maybe from about 1997 or 98 - there was a refurbished 1973 stock train in the background which in my mind would date it a bit later than 1996.
I'd forgotten about those red escalator sides at Holborn - it brings back some (not particularly pleasant) memories of using the station in the 1990s.
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Post by theblackferret on Nov 21, 2016 23:01:51 GMT
I wonder if the video was maybe from about 1997 or 98 - there was a refurbished 1973 stock train in the background which in my mind would date it a bit later than 1996. I'd forgotten about those red escalator sides at Holborn - it brings back some (not particularly pleasant) memories of using the station in the 1990s. Probably-one site I surfed to try & find out something definitive re norbitonflyer 's caveat on the 3-escalator bank said the vid was filmed in 1997. The other thing-this one being set mainly on the disused Aldwych branch platform, there would be a serious chance of assorted pyrotechnics, glitter and God knows what else still lurking about from Prodigy's Firestarter, filmed at Aldwych in 1996, if this one was also shot in 1996! Be interested, off-topic, if anyone can get the year, let alone the artists & song, without Wiki-help of the first pop video. It's off-topic because there's no tube content, though it was filmed in London.
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