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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Lizzie_Zoom on 11 January 2013, 11:10:56
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Ok, I waited and waited, but no one commented yesterday about an historic anniversary.
I thought I was starting to get some of you petrol heads interested in history! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Anyway, yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the first London (World) tube train run between the two new stations of Paddington and Farringdon Road on the Metropolitan, which was commemorated by a steam hauled train as it would have been at the beginning.
The London Underground grew, and with the CrossRail link is still growing! :y :y :y
Imagine a London without the Underground now. It would be chaos in the streets, and the financial centre which is London would probably not exist!
It was a truly marvellous achievement and a revolution in public transport that other countries copied. ;)
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I note that the special trips with Sarah Siddons and the steamer were the most expensive public rail journey per mile in the UK ever!
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The underground is fantastic, no arguments there, but it has also bred laziness and a complete lack of geographical knowledge in London ;) People (as a general rule) just automatically get on the tube to get from A to B when it can easily be walked in a few minutes (Liverpool Street to Bank for example) ::)
It can also be expensive for a group of 4... I used to go from Liverpool Street to Clerkenwell with 3 others (2 of them didn't walk too well either) and when I priced it up a Black Cab worked out the same price and more convenient as we got dropped on the doorstep instead of having to walk from the nearest station ;) I actually prefer to walk most of the time when in town :y
That said, it does make getting into the City nice and easy for us... Park at one of the stations on the outskirts and get the tube in :y That said, if there's 4 of us it can be cheaper (and often quicker) to drive in and park at one of the station car parks in the city :y
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The day before yesterday's Google Doodle was (part of) the iconic London Underground map.. so anyone who used Google ought to have noticed it was the anniversary .. well, if they clicked on the Doodle to find out what it was in aid of, anyway :y
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Bet not many know the cockney rhyming slang for the Underground?
No Googling ;D
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The day before yesterday's Google Doodle was (part of) the iconic London Underground map.. so anyone who used Google ought to have noticed it was the anniversary .. well, if they clicked on the Doodle to find out what it was in aid of, anyway :y
Do you know I went on Google yesterday to buy some clothes on line and noted the Underground Map. I am very embarrassed to say that the connection between the anniversary, that I already knew about due to my studies, and that map did not "click"!!! :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
God the older I get.................I'll say no more! ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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I can never get on the Tube without thinking about this song by the Amateur Transplants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw)
NWS, quite sweary ;)
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Bet not many know the cockney rhyming slang for the Underground?
No Googling ;D
Rhymes with Tube, not Underground IIRC :-\ :-\
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Bet not many know the cockney rhyming slang for the Underground?
No Googling ;D
Rhymes with Tube, not Underground IIRC :-\ :-\
Anything to do with "lube"? ;D
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Its OXO cube isnt it?
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Its OXO cube isnt it?
That's what I thought it was too ;)
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Ohh.. my mind clearly went straight to the gutter!
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I can never get on the Tube without thinking about this song by the Amateur Transplants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw)
NWS, quite sweary ;)
Very good! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
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I can never get on the Tube without thinking about this song by the Amateur Transplants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw)
NWS, quite sweary ;)
Very good! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
They do a lot of very good charity work and are well educated, medical professionals :y Certainly a group I intend to try and see live ;D
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We call it, Electric Worm or Slow Worm. Think modern Londoners call it Metroski.
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Its OXO cube isnt it?
Yep its oxo √ ;)
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Very useful system in off peak times but a living hell in the rush hour.
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Anyone used the free WiFi on it yet?
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I can never get on the Tube without thinking about this song by the Amateur Transplants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw)
NWS, quite sweary ;)
I was going to post this if no-one else had. Just genius.
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Its OXO cube isnt it?
:y
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I have great memories of the underground when I was a young lad. my mum used to take us out to London for days out. one of my favourite parts was going on the underground so much so I used to beg my mum if we could get off at upminster on the Lts line and ride the underground into central London :)
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I'd rather drive. Avoids having to use the Chiltern Slug as well.
Although, given a choice, I'd just prefer to avoid London completely.
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I can never get on the Tube without thinking about this song by the Amateur Transplants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw)
NWS, quite sweary ;)
Excellent............ ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Pictures of a steam train on the tube!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21003259
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Pictures of a steam train on the tube!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21003259
It must have been very smokey, and dirty, underground when they were all steam powered........ :D
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Pictures of a steam train on the tube!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21003259
That is a lovely picture! :-* :-* :-* :y :y :y :y
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Pictures of a steam train on the tube!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21003259
It must have been very smokey, and dirty, underground when they were all steam powered........ :D
They used condensing engines which were standard steam engines, but they had extra pipework that took the exhaust steam away into the water tanks. There was however still an amount of sooty exhaust that filled the tunnels, which were usually vented, but then came the electric units which dispensed with all that much to the relief of the London passengers! :D :D :D ;)
Strangely enough the London Underground did continue to use steam engines, in the form of ex-GWR, ex-BR Western Region Class 5700 0-6-0 tank engines, until 1971 for shunting duties. I believe 13 such engines were used from the late 1950s to 1971, and were numbered from L89 to L99. L90,94,and 95 all worked until 1971. Six of the ex-LT engines went into preservation. ;)
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I have returned home now and I have found this photograph of London Transport 0-6-0PT number L94 in it's glorious crimson red LT livery:
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk247/lizziefreeman/LTEngineL94.jpg)
In addition this is one of the original Metropolitan Railway A Class 4-4-0T condensing engine No.23 of 1866. Note the pipes going from the top of the cylinders to the side tanks:
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk247/lizziefreeman/MetrpolitanRailwayAClassNo23.jpg)
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