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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2006 17:00:20 GMT
Do the H & C C-stocks have a DVA ?
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Post by Tubeboy on May 14, 2006 17:16:31 GMT
Yes indeed, a rather pleasant voice methinks, both soothing and invigorating, like the sound of the trainstop south of platform 4, where the city and west end branches diverge at camden. ;D
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Post by citysig on May 14, 2006 18:42:53 GMT
Would you like the number of my psy phys doctor tubeboy ? ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2006 19:20:13 GMT
;D
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Post by Tubeboy on May 14, 2006 19:29:18 GMT
You dont like the sound of air hissing, I find it strangely hypnotic, and my shrink says this is perfectly normal! ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2006 19:36:05 GMT
Do the H & C C-stocks have a DVA ? Surely it's not too difficult to just have a ride on the H&C and find out for yourself? |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2006 20:02:40 GMT
Well, all I've got is weekends free, because I'm at school during the week, and because of the suspensions recently, I haven't had the oppurtunity.
So, there we go!
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Post by Tubeboy on May 14, 2006 20:21:28 GMT
Weekend suspensions? Its always being suspended during the week, usually to signal failures at Edgware Road, Baker street, Farringdon or Moorgate, the "crewe" of the square mile. ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2006 15:01:13 GMT
does it still say playstow on it not been that way for a long while as i have moved away from chavenham
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Post by prjb on May 15, 2006 23:06:43 GMT
No, it now says Plaistow.  |
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Post by Tubeboy on May 18, 2006 16:36:48 GMT
Is it pronounced play-stow or plas-tow? I think its the former rather than the latter, but am not 100%.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2006 16:52:48 GMT
its pronounced with a silent r plar stow
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Post by Tubeboy on May 18, 2006 16:56:12 GMT
yes, I think you might be right mate.  |
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Post by CSLR on May 18, 2006 17:12:48 GMT
its pronounced with a silent r plar stow Unless the person doing the pronouncing is an American, in which case it is Play-I-Stow. |
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Post by c5 on May 18, 2006 20:04:07 GMT
its pronounced with a silent r plar stow Or "Playskool" ;D |
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Post by prjb on May 18, 2006 20:12:45 GMT
Thats my personal favourite! ;D
I have spent many a happy hour telling Baker that the next one to them is going round at Playskool! ;D ;D
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Post by citysig on May 20, 2006 18:23:35 GMT
Staff on here (especially Met/H&C) may remember a Line Controller called Doug Haynes. I can't remember him ever referring to the place as anything other than Playskool. I even heard him on the radio several times telling drivers to put themselves up as "Playskools. ;D
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Post by prjb on May 27, 2006 23:08:00 GMT
Dougie? Wow, he was a nice bloke. As a driver I had spoken to him hundreds of times and imagined him to be a tall thin man. You can imagine my shock when I went out as a DMT and actually met him!! ;D He went back to Scotland where last I heard he is very happy.
You must remember West Country Wilf?
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Post by citysig on May 30, 2006 9:19:22 GMT
How could I forget Wilf. The jinx. Every single shift I worked with him as controller it would go up the wall. And no half measures either. He would have, for example, multiple track failures in the city and a derailment somewhere else ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2006 9:27:53 GMT
Sorry to drag this thread off topic, (and maybe this deserves another thread entirely), but why are the Circle & H&C lines always grouped together?
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Post by Tubeboy on May 30, 2006 9:58:02 GMT
Makes more sense to lump them together than run independently, they both have the same rolling stock, and they run on a fair bit of the same track, well. They also complement each other on the north side of the circle as well. Common depots and train crew as well.
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Post by prjb on May 30, 2006 18:45:37 GMT
Yea, wot tubeboy said! ;D
It is operationally more efficient to have one management team, one set of drivers, and one common stock. As Citysig has said elsewhere, the Circle doesn't really exsist in real terms other than at a couple of really small sections of track.
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Post by prjb on May 30, 2006 18:46:54 GMT
How could I forget Wilf. The jinx. Every single shift I worked with him as controller it would go up the wall. And no half measures either. He would have, for example, multiple track failures in the city and a derailment somewhere else ;D Hey Citysig, who was the west country signalman at Hammersmith a few years back? He trained me and was a lovely old bloke, I just can't remember his name. He even fed the cabin cat! |
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Post by citysig on May 31, 2006 6:08:58 GMT
I am trying to search my brain, but the only west-country person I can think of is still on the job and tends to mess the service up when he works in the city area cabins. He certainly wasn't that nice either. Are you sure he was west-country and not from the Norfolk area? I'll PM you if I think (just incase some picky people start moaning that we could do that instead of messing this thread up  ) |
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Post by alstom1996 on Nov 5, 2006 23:28:37 GMT
Regarding the dva, the former voice, This is a hammersmith/circle line train calling at all stations to.., has now been replaced by Emma, Bakerloo, victoria and central line woman. I'd personally like to see Lu using more of Celia, she's definately the best auto announcer since Janet.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2006 23:44:24 GMT
I am trying to search my brain, but the only west-country person I can think of is still on the job and tends to mess the service up when he works in the city area cabins. He certainly wasn't that nice either. Are you sure he was west-country and not from the Norfolk area? I'll PM you if I think (just incase some picky people start moaning that we could do that instead of messing this thread up ) Could he be talking about the longest serving AET at Baker Street, the one who hibernates in the West Country? Was he ever a signalman? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2006 6:54:24 GMT
Regarding the dva, the former voice, This is a hammersmith/circle line train calling at all stations to.., has now been replaced by Emma, Bakerloo, victoria and central line woman. I'd personally like to see Lu using more of Celia, she's definately the best auto announcer since Janet. CELIA on the Vic and S Stocks I hope |
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