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Post by ruislip on Mar 9, 2009 23:35:48 GMT
The "padding" on the walls represents the Yerkes design to me.
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Post by 21146 on Mar 10, 2009 14:40:57 GMT
The tiles were originally an orange colour not too dissimilar to the colour of the interior of the D78 doors before they were refurbished I thought so, I believe there were similarities to the designs used on the Liverpool and Glasgow BR underground refurbishments of the 1970s. |
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 10, 2009 21:54:52 GMT
Yeah, MerseyRail underground stations are lurvly with the moulded plastic seat et al.
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Post by antharro on Mar 28, 2009 14:51:25 GMT
For those of you with subwoofers hooked up to your PCs, turn up the bass and listen carefully to the last 10 seconds of Alex's second video. There's a very regular bass "thumping" sound. Almost like a train with a flat. It doesn't sound like noise from the camera, although there is a little from the camera's casing flexing.
I'm also surprised how far the bass from the Cl.313's compressors travels (first vid); it's present even before the train enters the station then cuts out when it's part way along the platform.
Any thoughts on that first point tho?
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Post by gantshill on Oct 12, 2014 18:19:03 GMT
I am puzzled by the layout at Essex Road. Why does the lift go lower than the platforms and then stairs go up to them?
It would seem to make more sense for the lifts to be above the level of the platforms (and probably cheaper for the GN&CR when it was built).
Apologies to those historians who might prefer this in the Metropolitan line section.
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Post by superteacher on Oct 12, 2014 18:23:41 GMT
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Post by gantshill on Oct 12, 2014 20:06:06 GMT
Thanks superteacher for the link to the previous discussion. Most interesting and intriguing.
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 12, 2014 20:35:12 GMT
This has been discussed before. See here. . |
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Post by superteacher on Mar 29, 2021 15:00:43 GMT
Just resurrecting this thread that I created 12 years ago . . .😃
When Essex Road closed in October 1975 pending transfer to BR, were the lifts original installations from when the station opened?
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Post by jimbo on Mar 30, 2021 4:42:52 GMT
Just resurrecting this thread that I created 12 years ago . . .😃 When Essex Road closed in October 1975 pending transfer to BR, were the lifts original installations from when the station opened? No. Essex Road lifts have an interesting history, according to Original London Underground Lift Stations by the late Jim Wright (March 2009). Essex Road opened in 1904 with two Easton Anderson electric lifts and a vacant space between them. These were the last of their type in 1960, when they were replaced by two surplus Otis lifts from Hampstead which had made way for the first high-speed lifts back in 1954. I wonder where they had been stored in the meantime. These lasted until transfer to British Rail, when new Otis lifts were installed. |
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Post by jimbo on Mar 31, 2021 0:30:11 GMT
Presume that installation of surplus lifts means more than the lift cars, but also all the gubbins in the machine room which must also have been in store somewhere for six years.
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