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Post by jimbo on Sept 11, 2022 8:08:43 GMT
Couldn't find a thread about this, but mentioned in current Underground News. link and video here "See the model of the Tube line that was nearly built from Edgware to Bushey Heath" now extended to 22 October. UNews says model is bound for scrap if a good home not found! Can LT Museum Acton find a spot for it? Anywhere more suitable available? |
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Post by geriatrix on Sept 11, 2022 9:38:32 GMT
The model looks amazing.
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Post by jimbo on Sept 23, 2022 0:30:34 GMT
Anyone interested in taking the model yet? I wondered if there was a suitable area in Edgware station under CCTV cover, since that is the most relevant public site.
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Post by spsmiler on Sept 23, 2022 21:02:40 GMT
I must try to get to the museum to see this...
Regarding its future fate, I'd love to have it if no-one else wanted it but do not know where I could put it - limited space is the issue.
The London Transport Museum Acton store might be a worthwhile destination ... just a guess.
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Post by antharro on Sept 24, 2022 0:53:36 GMT
Does anyone have any ideas on the size of this? I'd love to take this and probably have the room.
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Post by d7666 on Sept 25, 2022 22:09:11 GMT
I'd never heard of this Elstree museum before and I been commuting through the place for 30 years or more. Must stop off one day***.
I notice suggestions Acton could maybe take the model; but where did it come from to get to Elstree museum ? It might have either come from Acton already after thrown out, or been rejected in the past ? Acton can't possibly hold every artefact we might like it to and < dives for cover > IMHO there are rather more important actual items relating to things that did happen than a model of something that did not.
*** mind you, I been saying that about RAF Hendon museum for the same 30 years and still done zilch about it.
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Post by Chris M on Sept 26, 2022 0:07:14 GMT
The model was built by a (presumably local) person interested in the history of the proposed extension. It was (AIUI) built specifically to be the centrepiece of this exhibition and has not been exhibited anywhere previously. There will be no harm in asking whether Acton would be interested in taking it, but I suspect the answer will be no for the reasons noted above. antharro having asked people who have seen it in person, the best guess at dimensions is about 5 metres long by about 1 metre wide. |
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Post by jimbo on Oct 6, 2022 3:38:00 GMT
Just a reminder that the exhibition and working model of the Northern Line planned extension to Bushey Heath has only a fortnight to run.
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Post by class411 on Oct 6, 2022 9:25:25 GMT
I'd never heard of this Elstree museum before and I been commuting through the place for 30 years or more. Must stop off one day***. *** mind you, I been saying that about RAF Hendon museum for the same 30 years and still done zilch about it. Same for me with Bletchley Park. [/OFFTOPIC] |
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Post by oe on Oct 6, 2022 12:16:30 GMT
I visited the exhibition today. A chat with the attendant volunteers elicited the information that the model is planned to be going to a signal box museum in (Epsom?).
The Exhibition itself was well suited to a small local museum but I couldn't say I learnt anything new. However the model was brilliantly detailed although I was disappointed that there was no Roman Centurion on the roof of Elstree South Station.
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Post by jimbo on Oct 6, 2022 20:13:13 GMT
Glad it has a future. Pity not a more relevant one. Probably of low interest in southeast London. Oops! South London I mean!
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Post by Chris M on Oct 6, 2022 23:06:18 GMT
Epsom is in Surrey, a little way southwest of Greater London. I do agree though that this is not a place of obvious relevance to the Northern Heights
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Post by jimbo on Oct 9, 2022 19:50:31 GMT
I visited the exhibition today. A chat with the attendant volunteers elicited the information that the model is planned to be going to a signal box museum in (Epsom?) ..... Epping perhaps? More of a link with the New Works Programme of 1935–1940 link. The museum site is here. |
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Post by spsmiler on Oct 18, 2022 17:16:34 GMT
I went today, whilst there I also saw Thomas - of tank engine fame. He was resting inside the engine shed, to see him I had to press a button on one side of the exhibit and a door would open!
On the other side of the layout there is a tunnel with a viewing window.
There are two trains, one of which runs automatically shuttling up and down on the 'one train in steam' (sic) basis. The other train is driven by visitors - a three way lever for left, right and stop!
The people in the exhibition room were not sure where this is going after FRiday.
I bought a fridge magnet - these were available with the names of the intended stations plus one which a wealthy landowner wanted adding - as an extension* - which he would finance by building a housing estate around the station.
The station would have been called Moat Mount. Oh boy, what a name!!
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Post by Dstock7080 on Oct 18, 2022 18:24:14 GMT
Exhibition further extended until Saturday 31 December 2022
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Post by spsmiler on Oct 19, 2022 13:13:57 GMT
Exhibition further extended until Saturday 31 December 2022 Thats very good, it means that I can tell people about it - and give them a realistic chance of actually going to see it for themselves. |
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