Acton Open Day, 3rd and 4th March

Use my 'pile', if you wish... flash the cash before hand tho!

Pity you can't combine the FoLTM and the Staff Discount!

Cheers for that. I'll make my way there if I get away from work in time.

I've now got a copy of the staff rota (good thing I checked teh post tray at work). We're significantly better staffed on Saturday than on Sunday. I didn't express a preference on where to go, but given that half the staff seem to want to tend to the buses I'll probably end up on the trains. Not that I'd complain about that.

There will be guided tours of the small objects and artwork stores at 12, 1, 3 and 4 pm. Various films from the archives are going to be projected on to the walls.

The next open weekend after this one has been confirmed as 8 and 9 March 2008. The museum staff may have recovered from finishing the new museum by then.

Well the shop will be the first thing thing I will do when I get there, if anyone wants to combine their stuff with mine, that is fine. All I ask is 75% of the saving you have made, you still get a bargain! ;D

Only joking!

I don't think I'll be there, I am at my mums in Basingstoke and I think travelling from here, doing a day at Acton, and then going to work for a dead late will be a bit much for me. Hope you all have a good time.

I'm sorry I won't be seeing you lot, I've got loads of weekends off around this one, but sods law dictated that I would be on my dead late weekend tomorrow and Sunday. Never mind............

it's a choice though... with the limited space, would you rather a working Q stock or a (soon to be) working A stock to a 2 car set that can't even move?

It's only 2 cars of which aren't too important in the grand scheme of things, judging that they have an 83 stock and a Waterloo & City 1940.

I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying what their thinking would be if that were the case.

send them an email or Chris W might turn up as he seems to know alot about what's going on at the museum or indeed Compsci.

whats the email for chris w

Well nobody told me, and I'd hope the curators would know. Once a museum has an object, they need a vast pile of paperwork to get rid of anything. It's no secret that the depot is a little full on the rail vehicles side. One option being discussed for the A stock is to arrange for an example to be kept in another depot, at least for the short term.

I can check for definite next time I'm there, but that could be a couple of months away.

I went on a private tour of the musuem last year and the Depot Manager told me that once they had run out of space the first exhibit to go would be the green train (86ts). He said it wouldn't be a decision they took lightly, but ultimately their space is limited.

Would the second exhibit be the 1940s W&C car, and the third be one of the unrefurbished Standard Stock cars?

i know how to pm thanks
but i want to know what is chris w account name so i can pm him