Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

London Underground's David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary's
in East London, which closed in 1938, and is one of the tube network's
least well-known or visited disused stations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10612599

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 11:34*am, CJB wrote:
London Underground's David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary's
in East London

Thanks. Never seen it before.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 5:25*am, Michael Bell wrote:
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* * * * * CJB wrote:

London Underground's David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary's
in East London, which closed in 1938, and is one of the tube network's
least well-known or visited disused stations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10612599

OO-er. Is that the one that featured in the Quatermass film?

No, that was Hobbs End.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.


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Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

"Roger Traviss" wrote in message
news:wtSdnWo827P9yKLRnZ2dnUVZ_oidnZ2d@islandhostin g.com...
I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like
that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.

Well it wasn't one of the ones that I was aware of, such as Aldwych, Down
Street or Marlborough Road. But sure enough it's listed in Abandoned
Stations on London's Underground, J E Connor, 0-947-69930-9 and some of the
photos for its entry in there were used in the BBC news report.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

"Roger Traviss" wrote in message
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I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like
that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.

You may have missed it at the time, but a few years ago graffiti 'artists'
wrecked a central area deep tube station during Christmas Day, apparently
despite all the supposed continuous CCTV surveillance they'd just walked the
few miles down the tracks from one of the portals.

Paul

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 7:50*pm, "Mortimer" wrote:
"Roger Traviss" wrote in message

news:wtSdnWo827P9yKLRnZ2dnUVZ_oidnZ2d@islandhostin g.com...

I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like
that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.

Well it wasn't one of the ones that I was aware of, such as Aldwych, Down
Street or Marlborough Road. But sure enough it's listed in Abandoned
Stations on London's Underground, J E Connor, 0-947-69930-9 and some of the
photos for its entry in there were used in the BBC news report.

Aldwych was interesting too, for the exhibition of the future (or
whatever). The two lifts were fixed at the entrance level, and I'd
forgoten that they were not exactly square but somewhat trapezoidal in
floor area. Seemed like the entrance was clean and looked after. It
was even possible to visit and use the 1930s style public loos. CJB.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 6:01*pm, doctor teeth wrote:
On Jul 15, 11:34*am, CJB wrote:

London Underground's David Leboff offers a guided tour round St Mary's
in East London

Thanks. Never seen it before.

Also see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_tube_station

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 15, 7:51*pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

"Roger Traviss" wrote:

I see they make reference to this "unknown" station, or something like
that.

Seems the taggers know all about it though and can find their way inside.

You may have missed it at the time, but a few years ago graffiti 'artists'
wrecked a central area deep tube station during Christmas Day, *apparently
despite all the supposed continuous CCTV surveillance they'd just walked the
few miles down the tracks from one of the portals.

Camden Town was a notable one, and others have been 'done' as well.
CCTV surveillance ain't going to help much if someone isn't watching
it! (Of course it might be useful to rewind the tape, but one rather
suspects the sprayers were savvy to the watching eyes.) There was
stuff said at Christmas just gone about how better security measures
were to be in place on the 25th, and as I recall there wasn't a
recurrence.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On 15 July, 23:07, CJB wrote:


they were not exactly square but somewhat trapezoidal in
floor area.

Wasn't that to fit a pair of lift cars into a circular shaft?

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On 16 July, 06:57, 1501 wrote:
On 15 July, 23:07, CJB wrote:



*they were not exactly square but somewhat trapezoidal in
floor area.

Wasn't that to fit a pair of lift cars into a circular shaft?

Yes. Each lift had two separate power supplies, so if one failed the
other could be used. If there was some sort of mechanical or
electrical failure of the lift itself or its control system the other
lift in the same shaft could be manually stopped at the same level,
and the passengers transferred across from one car to the other; this
was a standard feature on these old Otis lifts. I don't know if it
was ever actually used, but presumably would have been done in
training. This would have been quicker than hand-winding the failed
lift, and could have been done even if the failed one was physically
jammed in some way. I had a copy of the instructions for hand-winding
these lifts somewhere; if I remember correctly it needed six people to
lift the two brakes and wind the two drums via two large wheels fitted
to the shafts. Not something to do if you could avoid it.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On Jul 16, 8:26*am, Stephen Furley wrote:
On 16 July, 06:57, 1501 wrote:

On 15 July, 23:07, CJB wrote:

*they were not exactly square but somewhat trapezoidal in
floor area.

Wasn't that to fit a pair of lift cars into a circular shaft?

Yes. *Each lift had two separate power supplies, so if one failed the
other could be used. *If there was some sort of mechanical or
electrical failure of the lift itself or its control system the other
lift in the same shaft could be manually stopped at the same level,
and the passengers transferred across from one car to the other; this
was a standard feature on these old Otis lifts. *I don't know if it
was ever actually used, but presumably would have been done in
training. *This would have been quicker than hand-winding the failed
lift, and could have been done even if the failed one was physically
jammed in some way. *I had a copy of the instructions for hand-winding
these lifts somewhere; if I remember correctly it needed six people to
lift the two brakes and wind the two drums via two large wheels fitted
to the shafts. *Not something to do if you could avoid it.

At the exhibition they had the two lifts side by side at the entrance
level. And I thought it strange that people were opening the
intervening door in one of them to see what was behind it - anither
door into the adjacent lift!!

CJB.

Rare tour inside an abandoned tube station - St.Marys
 

On 16 July, 09:52, CJB wrote:

At the exhibition they had the two lifts side by side at the entrance
level. And I thought it strange that people were opening the
intervening door in one of them to see what was behind it - anither
door into the adjacent lift!!

Could they actually get through to the other car, or was the other
door locked?