"Richard J." wrote in message ...
Smokeyone wrote:
First of all, I may be mistaken but I am reasonably sure that at one
station I saw a section of track with four of the spring clips missing
in a row from the shoes on the rail. I think shoes is the correct
name. Is this now the norm on the Underground...........

See photo at
http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Tr...ing%20Mark.htm

The term is "chair", not "shoe", and the spring clips are called "keys".

Where exactly did you see this? Did the chairs either side of these four
have the keys inserted?


So, they are called keys are they. Right then, just the four keys, I
did not notice anymore, I think some of them were lying loose on the
stones.
Edgeware road surface station, I believe Platform 3, about 20 yards
from the steps that leed down to the platform, rail nearest platform.
If you e-mail your telephone number to me at Cuttysark I will call
you.

Smokeyone