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Post by yerkes on Apr 18, 2018 19:44:34 GMT
Hello,
Posting this slightly obscure question on behalf of an acquaintance who is building a train simulator version of the Met, set in the '50s/"60s.
He's interested in knowing when platform end barriers were installed (the grey metal ones, or any form of precursor to these). Can anyone shed light? I'd guess sometime in the '80s but it would be good to have a more accurate insight.
Thank you,
Michael
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Post by spsmiler on Apr 18, 2018 21:00:42 GMT
Michael,
just a guess based on memory - the present type of barrier late 1990's or even after 2000.
In the early 1990's I could walk to the very end of the District Line platform at Wimbledon and film an entire train, including all of its front. This is no longer possible.
Simon
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Post by t697 on Apr 19, 2018 16:29:26 GMT
I'm pretty sure the installation was over quite a number of years. Some of them included a quite neatly integrated 'chevron' type stopping marker for the T/Op. Neat idea, completely messed up in implementation. They were never in the right place so were useless. This came up as an issue during 1992TS introduction on the Central line.
There are still LU stations without this type, Moor Park still has the barriers from the 1960 station rebuild.
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Post by crusty54 on Apr 19, 2018 18:35:20 GMT
I left LUL in 1988 and the new barriers were being used by then.
The Moor Park barriers are an example of the old type. The posts and rails are key clamp - they bolt together.
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Post by yerkes on Apr 20, 2018 17:11:21 GMT
I left LUL in 1988 and the new barriers were being used by then. The Moor Park barriers are an example of the old type. The posts and rails are key clamp - they bolt together. Thank you all. That is really helpful. Thinking of the old (Moor Park) types, which date from at least 1960: would this type have been installed in the late '50s or early '50s? Michael |
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