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"Paul Scott" wrote:


"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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That sounds more like Dr Who.


And in 1986's "The Trial of a Time Lord" the Doctor visits the future
where Earth has been devasted by a solar flare and survivors live in
"Marb station", a complex built in and beneath Marble Arch station
(although the set for the actual remains of the station bears little
resemblence to Marble Arch).

After my time.

-- Graeme Wall

Not very realistic - as every one knows, in the future the Doctor would
have landed up in a Crossrail tunnel....


Oh come on! It wasn't set /that/ far in the future.

--
Graeme Wall
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On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:43:40 +0000 someone who may be Graeme Wall
wrote this:-

Actually I believe the Beeb has, or at least had, a generic tube station set.
I seem to remember it appearing on a number of different programmes

No, it is actually a real station on the secret government tube line
that lies under the ordinary ones:-)

Incidentally while looking for something else I came across
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...on/index.shtml
which has many interesting photographs of the Snow Hill line in
London, now called Thameslink.


--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:23:03 -0000, "Tim Roll-Pickering"
wrote:

Chris Tolley wrote:

There was (so SWMBO tells me) a Doctor Who story set in a disused tube
stn,

From recollection three stories, though none feature disused stations.

Six, seven, or eight, depending on definitions, and how much actually
appears for it to count!

'The Dalek Invasion of Earth' made extensive use of the disused "Wood
Lane" station (also popular with 'The Tomorrow People'), just over the
road from TV Cent

http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...mtv/dwdioe.htm

The film version featured an anachronistic "Embankment" station:

http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...tv/d2150ad.htm

'The Chase' has a fleeting glimspe of "White City" station,
establishing Ian and Barbara's return to London:

http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...v/dwthcase.htm

In "The Web of Fear" (1968) the TARDIS materialises in the tube and finds
the network shut down and London evacuated due to an invasion by robotic
Yeti. A number of tube stations are seen, but all scenes were recorded in
studio (though the sets were so convincing that London Underground believed
otherwise!).

Some filming in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, but otherwise sets
representing "Covent Garden," "Charing Cross" (the current
"Embankment"), "South Kensington," "Piccadilly Circus," the
"Bank"-"Monument" escalator link, and the WW2 Deep Level Shelter under
"Goodge Street":

http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...mtv/dwtwof.htm

London is evactuated again in 1974's "Invasion of the Dinosaurs", where the
monsters of the story's title have been transported back in time by renegade
scientists operating an a base beneath (I thin) Aldgate tube, accessed by a
lift in a broom cupboard.

Exteriors were shot at "Moorgate," but the station name is not
visible, although it was (presumably erroneously) on the SPFX model of
the same; the interior studio sets have LU roundels with a name
starting with "TRAF..." which could only be "Tragalgar Square" i.e.
the Bakerloo part of the current "Charing Cross." This makes perfect
sense in the context of it leading to the secret bunker under
Whitehall:

http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...mtv/dwiotd.htm

'The Sunmakers' was part-filmed in the Deep Level Shelter under
"Camden Town" station:

http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...lmtv/dwtsm.htm

The same location was also used in 'Survivors' ('The Lights of London'
#1&2, along with the Waterloo and City line platforms at "Bank"), and
the 'Blake's 7' episode 'Ultraworld' as the titular planet.

And in 1986's "The Trial of a Time Lord" the Doctor visits the future where
Earth has been devasted by a solar flare and survivors live in "Marb
station", a complex built in and beneath Marble Arch station (although the
set for the actual remains of the station bears little resemblence to Marble
Arch).

It will have to be a very dull day before I get round to going through
that story again!

Finally, the opening episode of the new series did have an indication
of an Underground station, but obviously completely fictional, it
being shot in Cardiff:

http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...mtv/dwrose.htm

--
Nick Cooper

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http://www.nickcooper.org.uk/

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
Exteriors were shot at "Moorgate," but the station name is not visible,
although it was (presumably erroneously) on the SPFX model of the same;
the interior studio sets have LU roundels with a name starting with
"TRAF..." which could only be "Tragalgar Square" i.e. the Bakerloo part
of the current "Charing Cross." This makes perfect sense in the
context of it leading to the secret bunker under
Whitehall:

In the later novelisation of Invasion of the Dinosaurs, the station in
question is Westminster.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:28:33 +0000, Ian Jelf
wrote:

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
Exteriors were shot at "Moorgate," but the station name is not visible,
although it was (presumably erroneously) on the SPFX model of the same;
the interior studio sets have LU roundels with a name starting with
"TRAF..." which could only be "Tragalgar Square" i.e. the Bakerloo part
of the current "Charing Cross." This makes perfect sense in the
context of it leading to the secret bunker under
Whitehall:

In the later novelisation of Invasion of the Dinosaurs, the station in
question is Westminster.

Yes, that is mentioned on the webpage, although of course it doesn't
really mean anything!
--
Nick Cooper

[Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!]

The London Underground at War, and in Films & TV:
http://www.nickcooper.org.uk/

Ian Jelf wrote:

In the later novelisation of Invasion of the Dinosaurs, the station in
question is Westminster.

True but the novelisations often change things - Malcolm Hulke, who wrote
this one, was one of the most notorious for altering details where
necessary.

The Doctor Who story 'The Web of Fear' of 1968 was indeed set on the
Underground, although the BBC were quoted such a ridiculous price to
film on the actual Underground and with so many understandable strings
attached that they built their own set of a short platform which could
be redressed to represent a number of stations and a couple of sections
of tunnel (one straight and one with a junction) which were apparently
so convincing that LT believed that a film crew had broken in and
filmed without permission. The only location filming was done in the
Woolwich foot tunnel. The one surviving episode can be seen on the
'Lost in Time' DVD release and while the Underground sets are very
detailed the junction appears several times in odd places (such as
while the characters are walking from Covent Garden to Goodge Street).

The Quatermass to which you refer is the Hammer film of 'Quatermass and
the Pit' and the underground station was all in studio as far as I'm
aware.

"Ianigsy" wrote in message
ups.com...
The Doctor Who story 'The Web of Fear' of 1968 was indeed set on the
Underground, although the BBC were quoted such a ridiculous price to
film on the actual Underground and with so many understandable strings
attached that they built their own set of a short platform which could
be redressed to represent a number of stations and a couple of sections
of tunnel (one straight and one with a junction) which were apparently
so convincing that LT believed that a film crew had broken in and
filmed without permission. The only location filming was done in the
Woolwich foot tunnel. The one surviving episode can be seen on the
'Lost in Time' DVD release and while the Underground sets are very
detailed the junction appears several times in odd places (such as
while the characters are walking from Covent Garden to Goodge Street).

I have quite literally just watched this episode, and I have to say I'm very
impressed with the set tube sets - not the "wobbly cardboard" sets for which
Doctor Who is often mis-remembered. It was only really the junction that let
it down - whilst the placement of the junction was odd, I thought the actual
trackwork was odder. No attempt was made to represent a real point and
crossing set, and it's clear that the BBC only modelled a three-rail system
(two running rails and a central current rail). At the crossings, the rails
just joined together and passed through each other rather than have any
gaps - how London Transport were fooled by this I don't know!


--
Ronnie
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In message
Chris Tolley wrote:

[snip]

And there are plenty of disused tunnels to speculate about, most
recently the original alignment of the Jubilee line. Of course, some
unlikely tales about goings-on in tube tunnels turn out to be quite
true, like the one about building aircraft in the Central Line Eastern
extension tunnels during WW2.

Turned into a Plessey factory using about about 7 miles of twin running
tunnels.

--
Graeme Wall
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According to the credits, the whole thing was filmed on location . Does
anyone know where it was filmed. Gloucester road and South Kensington seem
possibilities as there was a sign saying "District Line". The disused
station area where the trogoldytes lived was absolutely fascinating, does
anyone know where it was?

Barking