Transport Geekery
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shinytoasterCut for the wary or uninterested ...
Went out to the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton today, which is where they restore the old trains and is also now where they're holding the exhibits while the museum is refurbished. It's usually closed off to the public, being at the end of the day merely a giant warehouse with some old buses and stuff in it, but just occasionally they open up to the general public, and as today was such a day it seemed a shame to not go and have a poke around. Here are some of the results ...
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benjj inspects the interior of what was apparently a piece of 1938 District Line stock, according to the bearded bloke in the luminous tabard at the door. I considered doing a little pole dance but decided it might tip some of the people present - who frankly already looked orgasmic - over the edge.
In which we see the front end of the same train ...
The inside of the train again, this time with an anachronistic No Entry sign. You can tell because the perspex is of a type not commonly manufactured before 1965, and of course the grooves on the floor tell us at a glance that this was built at the Metro-Cammel works in Swindon sometime between 1910 and 1920. As any fule kno.
The old map from the inside of another carriage.
This one just amused me ... a BT ad from I guess about 1980, presumably pre-Beattie.
The guy on the right is actually a GI in uniform and he has his arm around a really unnattractive young lady with a dodgy perm. Her nylons were pasted on, yay! They are unconvincing as waxworks.
And finally, here's a little curiosity, a mid-70s tube map with Trafalgar Square station marked on it, which I think is now a part of Charing Cross station. You can also see Strand station before it became Charing Cross, which back then was located where Embankment is now. With me? The faint line coming into Strand from the west is actually the Jubilee Line, which was then under construction as the Fleet Line.
Went out to the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton today, which is where they restore the old trains and is also now where they're holding the exhibits while the museum is refurbished. It's usually closed off to the public, being at the end of the day merely a giant warehouse with some old buses and stuff in it, but just occasionally they open up to the general public, and as today was such a day it seemed a shame to not go and have a poke around. Here are some of the results ...
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In which
benjj inspects the interior of what was apparently a piece of 1938 District Line stock, according to the bearded bloke in the luminous tabard at the door. I considered doing a little pole dance but decided it might tip some of the people present - who frankly already looked orgasmic - over the edge. |
In which we see the front end of the same train ...
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The inside of the train again, this time with an anachronistic No Entry sign. You can tell because the perspex is of a type not commonly manufactured before 1965, and of course the grooves on the floor tell us at a glance that this was built at the Metro-Cammel works in Swindon sometime between 1910 and 1920. As any fule kno.
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The old map from the inside of another carriage.
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This one just amused me ... a BT ad from I guess about 1980, presumably pre-Beattie.
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The guy on the right is actually a GI in uniform and he has his arm around a really unnattractive young lady with a dodgy perm. Her nylons were pasted on, yay! They are unconvincing as waxworks.
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And finally, here's a little curiosity, a mid-70s tube map with Trafalgar Square station marked on it, which I think is now a part of Charing Cross station. You can also see Strand station before it became Charing Cross, which back then was located where Embankment is now. With me? The faint line coming into Strand from the west is actually the Jubilee Line, which was then under construction as the Fleet Line.
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Date: 2006-03-05 07:03 pm (UTC)>:D
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Date: 2006-03-05 10:30 pm (UTC)And yay, someone else has read the Molesworth books!
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Date: 2006-03-05 10:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-06 09:42 am (UTC)Also, yay for the Nigel Molesworth moment.
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Date: 2006-03-06 02:25 pm (UTC):O You've read Molesworth! I've never met anyone else of my generation who's so much as heard of him before!
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