October Quiz - Day 17

Now that really could be anywhere - and that's a single part?

Surely there's some sort of clue to go with it?

Presumably then the instalation is at a non refurbished station, that received CCTV quite early? I dont have a clue, but is it a fair summation to guess at a zone 1 location? Temple; why not.

Mmm! You know I think I've seen that very sign but the question is where! It's okay for you chaps bombing up and down the same piece of railway day in day out with much the same view from the front but when you've worked all over the combine it's sometimes difficult to recall where you saw something!

I suppose it could be at Holborn which I believe was the first CCTV installation on the job but as that was experimental perhaps not so the next guess would be somewhere on the Victoria Line.
The trouble with that is that I worked at every station and walked the tunnels too from end to end and to the depot as well.

Let's take a stab at Warren Street only because I worked in the ops room there way back in 1978!

Brian

Somewhere on the JLE, maybe London Bridge/Southwark?

You'd be surprised at how many stations have had little or no CCTV until very recently - Tower Hill had just 8 cameras prior to it's refurb this year!!

Yep! CCTV came with the Victoria Line, generally 5 cameras per site, headwall, tailwall per platform and one in the concourse IIRC. The stations had ops rooms but the CCTV could be monitored also in the booking office and the headwall cameras at the control room. The Stage 1 Jubilee was next on the list i.e. Baker Street to Charing Cross.

I was involved in the installation of the main CCTV sites at the very beginning of the project on the other lines. The first sites were Waterloo, Tottenham Court Road, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus and Baker Street which is the site that I installed and commissioned circa 1981 with some 16 cameras covering the Met line & H&C. Most of the interchange stations were fitted out by the mid 1980s and by the end of the 1980s we were installing infill sites. It was in the 1980s that we gave the BTP access to all cameras on all stations and where stations had no cameras we installed them, up to 20 per station. Since then things have moved on considerably to include covert as well as overt installations and a lot more cameras at larger sites like Oxford Circus.
These days CCTV is routine but I still remember the days when therw was none at all.

Brian

Holborn?

Okay I originally suggested Warren Street but with that date I'm going to say Euston on the Victoria Line.


Brian