On Tue, 4 May 2004 at 13:01:14, Roland Perry wrote:

I'm trying to compile a list of interesting things to go see on the "tube"
on a day trip. Engineering mainly, like the crossover at the end of the
Oxford St Bakerloo, the scale of Canary Wharf and the tunnel out of
Bank-DLR. What others can the team suggest?

Scissors crossover outside Brixton Station? Not that you can really
*see* it, as such....

If you get on an Eastbound District Line train from Tower Hill, you can
see the Circle Line station at Aldgate before the train you are on stops
at Aldgate East.

My personal favourite is the DLR to Lewisham, as it is so varied, but I
was thinking this morning (only I didn't have time) of extending my DLR
ride to Cyprus, just so I could say I'd been there!
--
Annabel Smyth
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Website updated 8 March 2004

In message , Roland Perry
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I'm trying to compile a list of interesting things to go see on the
"tube" on a day trip. Engineering mainly, like the crossover at the end
of the Oxford St Bakerloo, the scale of Canary Wharf and the tunnel out
of Bank-DLR. What others can the team suggest?

Baker Street for a quite effective reconstruction of the look and feel
(if not the smell) of the original Metropolitan line station at platform
level - Gloucester Road, too, where you can also see the Platform for
Art. Can your itinerary include a stop off at Covent Garden for the LT
museum?

--
Paul Terry

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Can your itinerary include a stop off at Covent Garden for the LT
museum?

Been there several times (had a season ticket once, I think). But yes,
going back again. Did you know it had one of the first public webcams,
over the front door, years ago?
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry writes:
I'm trying to compile a list of interesting things to go see on the
"tube" on a day trip. Engineering mainly, like the crossover at the end
of the Oxford St Bakerloo, the scale of Canary Wharf and the tunnel out
of Bank-DLR. What others can the team suggest?

Shepherd's Bush (Central Line) with its Siamese twin platform layout.

Notting Hill Gate for the layout with one Central Line track above
the other. (There are a few other stations like that, but this one is
also an interchange, thus more interesting.)

Also on the Central Line, ride from Shepherd's Bush to East Acton and
back, after reading the history of that section, and imagine how the
layout used to be at Wood Lane and the old junction between White City
and East Acton.

Where's that pedestrian tunnel that runs through the exposed remains of a
tunneling shield? Waterloo (Waterloo & City)?
--
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Toronto | -- research establishments in the Stone Age, by now we
| would have had absolutely superb flint tools. But no one
| would have invented steel." -- Arthur C. Clarke

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On Tue, 04 May 2004 19:19:46 -0000, (Mark Brader) wrote:


Where's that pedestrian tunnel that runs through the exposed remains of a
tunneling shield? Waterloo (Waterloo & City)?

Bank - on the direct link between the W&C and DLR.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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What others can the team suggest?

The silver-painted glass tubes used to stop big trains from going into
little tunnels, visible from the north end of Finchley Road station. There
is also a set near Barons Court, but I don't think they can be readily seen
from any station.

--
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That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
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"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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What others can the team suggest?

The silver-painted glass tubes used to stop big trains from going into
little tunnels, visible from the north end of Finchley Road station. There
is also a set near Barons Court, but I don't think they can be readily seen
from any station.

I'm sure if you look West from Barons Court platform, you will be able
to see them.

There is also a set just after Hounslow Central on the westbound Picc,
although I'm not sure the last time a big train tried to go that far
west.
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On Tue, 4 May 2004 13:01:14 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

I'm trying to compile a list of interesting things to go see on the
"tube" on a day trip. Engineering mainly, like the crossover at the end
of the Oxford St Bakerloo, the scale of Canary Wharf and the tunnel out
of Bank-DLR. What others can the team suggest?

Way off beam from other suggestions, but, armed with a copy of Jim
Blake's "Northern Wastes", a visit to Highgate for the High level
station and then Mill Hill East, and imagine what might have been.

--
Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

Bill Hayles wrote:

On Tue, 4 May 2004 13:01:14 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

I'm trying to compile a list of interesting things to go see on the
"tube" on a day trip. Engineering mainly, like the crossover at the end
of the Oxford St Bakerloo, the scale of Canary Wharf and the tunnel out
of Bank-DLR. What others can the team suggest?

Way off beam from other suggestions, but, armed with a copy of Jim
Blake's "Northern Wastes", a visit to Highgate for the High level
station and then Mill Hill East, and imagine what might have been.

Also off-beam, Ruislip station is worth a visit. I believe that the
station, together with the signal box and footbridge, is a listed
building.

--
John Ray, London UK.