"Fig" wrote in message newsp.tl0ot7nhm4iaeb@dell...
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:12:55 -0000, wrote:

The new Peter O'Toole film, 'Venus',
has a scene that suggests he takes
a red, presumably London, tube to
a coastal beach.

Is this possible today? On which
'red electric train' to use John
Betjeman's term, to which beach?

The Island Line on The Isle of Wight has a beach at each end and uses old
LU stock. Not sure what colour they are today but believe they were red at
one time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Line,_Isle_of_Wight

Most of them are in blue and yellow "dinosaur" livery, but some are in
"heritage" LT red.
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David Biddulph