I found this illustration of a very old tube train online at King William Street

[Pat Vegas]

station.

It seems back in those days it was commonplace to carry around a dead shark with you.

Hang on the pic isn't working.

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[Ash]

It seems back in those days it was commonplace to carry around a dead shark with you.


Is that the end of the seat in the right foreground or a boot? :sherlock:

http://www.awimb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=94&d=1462536764

I presume you've been to the transport museum in Covent Garden. They have some old carriages in there.

[Sir C]

station.

It seems back in those days it was commonplace to carry around a dead shark with you.

Hang on the pic isn't working.

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I remember tube carriages with sort of wooden panelled ceilings; Bakerloo line, I think.

Also smoking carriages on the tube. It seems unimaginable now, doesn't it? :-(

[Pat Vegas]

Is that the end of the seat in the right foreground or a boot? :sherlock:

http://www.awimb.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=94&d=1462536764

I presume you've been to the transport museum in Covent Garden. They have some old carriages in there.

Yep haven't been for a while though. This picture is on display there 'not sure if it still is'

I am not just a tube geek. I am a sucker for a routemaster or a trolleybus

[Pat Vegas]

I remember tube carriages with sort of wooden panelled ceilings; Bakerloo line, I think.

Also smoking carriages on the tube. It seems unimaginable now, doesn't it? :-(

Won of these Sir C? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_1938_Stock
yeah it seems crazy you could smoke on the tube. I wouldn't even light up on a empty outside station platform.

(this rule doesn't seem to apply in the North of England)

[The Jorge]

Won of these Sir C? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_1938_Stock
yeah it seems crazy you could smoke on the tube. I wouldn't even light up on a empty outside station platform.

(this rule doesn't seem to apply in the North of England)

Oh it does, I was told off the other day whilst having a wee herbal refresher at a train station.

The jobsworth was on the other platform and I made out as though I couldnt hear him but by the time he's walked down the platform, over the bridge and then up my platform to berrate me I had finished so I just gave him a "sorry mate, not me" gesture.

Safe to say he had less than a sense of humour about the whole business, so I told him that next time I would be more careful not to set the entire station alight, burning these concrete platforms to cinders. The ****.

[Sir C]

Won of these Sir C? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_1938_Stock
yeah it seems crazy you could smoke on the tube. I wouldn't even light up on a empty outside station platform.

(this rule doesn't seem to apply in the North of England)

That'll be the chap. They felt like they'd be pre-war, and by golly it appears that they were.

The bit that always makes me chuckle is remembering flying somewhere on holiday. You smoked all through the airport with no restrictions at all, until you got to the gate, when smoking wasn't allowed until after take off. So for half an hour, you couldn't smoke, which meant that after the aeroplane took off, people were poised with a fag in their mouth, lighter at the ready, staring at the non smoking sign, and the instant it went out, whoosh! The cabin was filled with fag smoke :hehe:

[Pat Vegas]

Oh it does, I was told off the other day whilst having a wee herbal refresher at a train station.

The jobsworth was on the other platform and I made out as though I couldnt hear him but by the time he's walked down the platform, over the bridge and then up my platform to berrate me I had finished so I just gave him a "sorry mate, not me" gesture.

Safe to say he had less than a sense of humour about the whole business, so I told him that next time I would be more careful not to set the entire station alight, burning these concrete platforms to cinders. The ****.

This is why I get upset at Gatwick if I arrive there, there is no exit to have a smoke apart from one ridiculous area where you have to walk miles.

This is what I like about Italy far more relaxed. smoke on the platform if you want. Or even better sit on the edge of the platform and let your legs dangle over the tracks. :cloud9:

[Ash]

Yep haven't been for a while though. This picture is on display there 'not sure if it still is'

I am not just a tube geek. I am a sucker for a routemaster or a trolleybus

The museum depot in Acton is open a couple of times a year. One has just gone, I think.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/sets/72157594567610829/with/409031917/

[Pat Vegas]

The museum depot in Acton is open a couple of times a year. One has just gone, I think.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/sets/72157594567610829/with/409031917/

I am always a bit late with these things :-( I've never been. and have missed out on all the Aldwych station tours. I don't keep up with events in that world.