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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2008 15:34:48 GMT
Can someone please help with a date that Ashfield House was opened. For non-Underground staff readers, this is the tall building close to West Kensington station.
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Post by Tubeboy on Aug 16, 2008 17:01:27 GMT
I am guessing it couldnt have been open pre late 1980s. Didnt White City close in the 1980s?
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Post by Harsig on Aug 16, 2008 17:07:04 GMT
To Quote the company Intranet
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2008 20:53:21 GMT
Grateful thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2008 19:04:50 GMT
I am guessing it couldnt have been open pre late 1980s. Didnt White City close in the 1980s? AFAIK training moved from White City to Ashfield House some time in the first half of 1996. I joined LU July 1996 and trained at Ashfield House, but I know someone who joined a few months earlier and trained at White City. Doesn't mean the building itself wasn't in use before that, but as far as being the main training base I'm pretty certain 1996. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2008 19:12:37 GMT
So what was Ashfield originally built for?
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Post by 100andthirty on Aug 18, 2008 19:28:37 GMT
Ashfiled originally housed the Chief Civil Engineer's department
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Post by towerman on Aug 18, 2008 21:56:09 GMT
I'm sure someone told me that it was originally going to be a hotel and LUL took it over.
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Post by Tubeboy on Aug 18, 2008 22:06:07 GMT
I'm sure someone told me that it was originally going to be a hotel and LUL took it over. A large version of Bates Motel no doubt, its an ugly building. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2008 23:11:18 GMT
I hate it. The lift lobby areas strike fear into any LU employee! The fact the canteen is on the 8th floor is not good either (especially if you smoke like me) and the place is just horrible!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2008 17:33:13 GMT
where the old white city training centre used to stand is now the biggest shopping complex in london , its on a par with lakeside apparently , it opens in oct afaik
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Post by hobbayne on Aug 19, 2008 20:59:14 GMT
I miss the old White City school, I took my Guards course there in 1988 and passed driver in 1990 and took various other courses and audio visual for the Bakerloo and Central there till Ashfield took over.
I was at Ashfield recently for a day doing an NVQ God what a Naughty word!
The security guards in the foyer thought they were the big cheese!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2008 22:28:18 GMT
I visited the old WC school when I was ten! On a day out organised with the Central Line........signalled the old model railway there, and saw the box diagram at Ashfield I used all that time ago while SO training recently! It is used for trainees now, although on it's own and not part of a frame. The DCM who took me there in 1993 said: "When you're a grown up Alex, all this signalling will be gone.....you'll never pull levers in a box like this"...............Well, some 15 years later, I am in a box just like it!!!!!!!
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Post by Alight on Aug 20, 2008 15:48:16 GMT
I hate it. The lift lobby areas strike fear into any LU employee! The fact the canteen is on the 8th floor is not good either (especially if you smoke like me) and the place is just horrible! I agree, I worked there last September, not a good building in terms of aesthetics (e.g. the ugly celing tiles) and being practical (i.e. stairs on either side, with limited exits). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2008 15:58:37 GMT
I hate it. The lift lobby areas strike fear into any LU employee! The fact the canteen is on the 8th floor is not good either (especially if you smoke like me) and the place is just horrible! I agree, I worked there last September, not a good building in terms of aesthetics (e.g. the ugly celing tiles) and being practical (i.e. stairs on either side, with limited exits). Oh yes indeed! I worked there for a couple of months on a secondment when resuming from sick on light duties (before I got redeployed off the trains permanently), I was on the 7th floor and at the time my illness affected my mobility. There was a fire alarm one day and I struggled slowly down 7 flights of stairs - I'm pretty sure I was the last one out of the building, although a manager from my floor stayed with me and made sure I got out ok. Not fun. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2008 16:47:35 GMT
No......there's nothing nice about that place.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2008 17:10:18 GMT
I miss the old White City school, I took my Guards course there in 1988 and passed driver in 1990 and took various other courses and audio visual for the Bakerloo and Central there till Ashfield took over. I was at Ashfield recently for a day doing an NVQ God what a Naughty word! The security guards in the foyer thought they were the big cheese!! Aboslutley spot on with everything you said there hobbayne . ive only ever had the misfortune to go to ashtray house on one occasion and that experience was bad enough , thank the lord the h&c training is line based |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2008 17:46:01 GMT
It reminds me of a Stalinist "Ministry of Information" type-building from a communist regime or from Saddam's Iraq! ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2008 19:03:30 GMT
i can't believe it was built in the 80s! all that concrete must mean its from the 60s or 70s! perhaps LT were doing some cost cutting and reused some plans from that era! I must say i like the interiors of the training rooms although they feel a bit 'sterile'
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