Euston Underground Station – The Lost Tunnels is the name of the latest Hidden London tour by the London Transport Museum, and on a warm Thursday afternoon last week I took the tour and descended beneath Euston station to find a time capsule from the 1960s.

The tour started at the original Euston station of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway. The station is one of Leslie Green’s distinctive station designs and is the red building on the corner of Melton Street and Drummond Street, on the western side of Euston mainline station.

http://alondoninheritance.com/under-...-lost-tunnels/

On 2016\07\17 08:45, CJB wrote:
Euston Underground Station – The Lost Tunnels is the name of the latest Hidden London tour by the London Transport Museum, and on a warm Thursday afternoon last week I took the tour and descended beneath Euston station to find a time capsule from the 1960s.

The tour started at the original Euston station of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway. The station is one of Leslie Green’s distinctive station designs and is the red building on the corner of Melton Street and Drummond Street, on the western side of Euston mainline station.

http://alondoninheritance.com/under-...-lost-tunnels/


Thanks, I was just looking at your earlier one for Charing Cross,
http://alondoninheritance.com/under-london/the-hidden-tunnels-of-charing-cross-underground-station/
and it looks like the escalators leading to the Jubilee platforms are
still there... I thought they'd been removed and reused elsewhere.

On 17/07/2016 10:06, Basil Jet wrote:

and it looks like the escalators leading to the Jubilee platforms are
still there... I thought they'd been removed and reused elsewhere.

Well one account is that they have - in parts (sic!)

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/...s_station.html

"The escalators, seen here in 2008 (nine years after closure), look in
good order viewed from above (and are kept that way for the benefit of
the many film crews who use the station). The workings underneath are
entirely different: the steps have been permanently secured and parts
have been cannibalised for the repair of other escalators."



--
Robin
reply-to address is (intended to be) valid

Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\07\17 08:45, CJB wrote:
Euston Underground Station – The Lost Tunnels is the name of the latest
Hidden London tour by the London Transport Museum, and on a warm
Thursday afternoon last week I took the tour and descended beneath
Euston station to find a time capsule from the 1960s.

The tour started at the original Euston station of the Charing Cross,
Euston and Hampstead Railway. The station is one of Leslie Green’s
distinctive station designs and is the red building on the corner of
Melton Street and Drummond Street, on the western side of Euston mainline station.

http://alondoninheritance.com/under-...-lost-tunnels/


Thanks, I was just looking at your earlier one for Charing Cross,
http://alondoninheritance.com/under-london/the-hidden-tunnels-of-charing-cross-underground-station/
and it looks like the escalators leading to the Jubilee platforms are
still there... I thought they'd been removed and reused elsewhere.

I thought all the Tube escalators were custom built? There might be some
components that could be re-used, but it's probably not worth the effort to
recover what are probably worn items with a limited remaining life.

On 2016\07\17 11:35, Robin wrote:
On 17/07/2016 10:06, Basil Jet wrote:

and it looks like the escalators leading to the Jubilee platforms
are still there... I thought they'd been removed and reused
elsewhere.

Well one account is that they have - in parts (sic!)

http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/...s_station.html

"The escalators, seen here in 2008 (nine years after closure), look
in good order viewed from above (and are kept that way for the
benefit of the many film crews who use the station). The workings
underneath are entirely different: the steps have been permanently
secured and parts have been cannibalised for the repair of other
escalators."

Thanks!

On 17.07.16 10:06, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\07\17 08:45, CJB wrote:
Euston Underground Station – The Lost Tunnels is the name of the
latest Hidden London tour by the London Transport Museum, and on a
warm Thursday afternoon last week I took the tour and descended
beneath Euston station to find a time capsule from the 1960s.

The tour started at the original Euston station of the Charing Cross,
Euston and Hampstead Railway. The station is one of Leslie Green’s
distinctive station designs and is the red building on the corner of
Melton Street and Drummond Street, on the western side of Euston
mainline station.

http://alondoninheritance.com/under-...-lost-tunnels/



Thanks, I was just looking at your earlier one for Charing Cross,
http://alondoninheritance.com/under-london/the-hidden-tunnels-of-charing-cross-underground-station/

and it looks like the escalators leading to the Jubilee platforms are
still there... I thought they'd been removed and reused elsewhere.

No, I've seen them. If you walk north on the A3211 from Parliament to
Embankment late at night, then work crews might have the doors to the
old station partially ajar.

On 2016\07\17 14:20, wrote:
On 17.07.16 10:06, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\07\17 08:45, CJB wrote:
Euston Underground Station – The Lost Tunnels is the name of the
latest Hidden London tour by the London Transport Museum, and on a
warm Thursday afternoon last week I took the tour and descended
beneath Euston station to find a time capsule from the 1960s.

The tour started at the original Euston station of the Charing Cross,
Euston and Hampstead Railway. The station is one of Leslie Green’s
distinctive station designs and is the red building on the corner of
Melton Street and Drummond Street, on the western side of Euston
mainline station.

http://alondoninheritance.com/under-...-lost-tunnels/




Thanks, I was just looking at your earlier one for Charing Cross,
http://alondoninheritance.com/under-london/the-hidden-tunnels-of-charing-cross-underground-station/


and it looks like the escalators leading to the Jubilee platforms are
still there... I thought they'd been removed and reused elsewhere.

No, I've seen them. If you walk north on the A3211 from Parliament to
Embankment late at night, then work crews might have the doors to the
old station partially ajar.

What old station? The old Jubilee platforms are nowhere near the
Embankment. It sounds like you describing the doors to the tram subway.

Basil Jet wrote on 17 Jul 2016 at 14:30 ...
On 2016\07\17 14:20, wrote:
On 17.07.16 10:06, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\07\17 08:45, CJB wrote:
Euston Underground Station – The Lost Tunnels is the name of the
latest Hidden London tour by the London Transport Museum, and on a
warm Thursday afternoon last week I took the tour and descended
beneath Euston station to find a time capsule from the 1960s.

The tour started at the original Euston station of the Charing Cross,
Euston and Hampstead Railway. The station is one of Leslie Green’s
distinctive station designs and is the red building on the corner of
Melton Street and Drummond Street, on the western side of Euston
mainline station.

http://alondoninheritance.com/under-...-lost-tunnels/




Thanks, I was just looking at your earlier one for Charing Cross,
http://alondoninheritance.com/under-london/the-hidden-tunnels-of-charing-cross-underground-station/


and it looks like the escalators leading to the Jubilee platforms are
still there... I thought they'd been removed and reused elsewhere.

No, I've seen them. If you walk north on the A3211 from Parliament to
Embankment late at night, then work crews might have the doors to the
old station partially ajar.

What old station? The old Jubilee platforms are nowhere near the
Embankment. It sounds like you describing the doors to the tram subway.

"If you walk ... late at night ..." Alcohol-fuelled disorientation
perhaps? :-)
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

On 17/07/2016 19:38, Recliner wrote:
I thought all the Tube escalators were custom built? There might be some
components that could be re-used, but it's probably not worth the effort to
recover what are probably worn items with a limited remaining life.

The overall escalators are custom built but to existing designs. So
while the frame has to be customised and the number of steps may vary,
the actual mechanisms of (say) Charing Cross 10-12 are the same as any
other Otis MY-A, such as the six at Baker Street or Moorgate 3 to 6 or,
indeed, in other places.