Mizter T wrote:

I do demur from using the term "tube" when I'm specifically talking
about the sub-surface lines (District, Met etc) as the line neither
uses a tube tunnel nor are the trains tube shaped. LU/TfL freely uses
the term "Tube", with a capital 'T', as a shorthand way of describing
the whole Underground system - a convention that I follow when posting
here.



Of course an Underground train that would have travelled from London to
Southend wouldn't have spent a lot of the journey underground, so even
the usage of that term can be criticised.


The Metropolitan District Railway may not have been very much
underground (small u) but was definitely Underground with a capital U,
since it was a company belonging to the Underground Electric Railways
Company of London Limited, having been purchased by that company in
1903.

Those Southend trains were composed of full sized slam-door compartment
stock hauled by two electric locos as far as Barking, and stopped
before World War 2. They were as much "underground" trains as the
similar Metropolitan trains of the era. The District also had the
Underground's only named train: in the 1910s a morning express from
South Harrow to Barking was officially "The Harrovarian" Through City
Express.

Anyway, point being that you can wish as much as you want the people
wouldn't call the trains "tubes", but they will certainly continue to
do so - it is absolutely ingrained in the language!

Only since the 1980s or so.

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 wrote:

Is this possible today? On which 'red electric train' to use John
Betjeman's term, to which beach?

Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee or W&C will all get you to this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twic/324765673/

tom

--
an expertly crafted mix of practical decision-making and drunken shouting

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
h.li...
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 wrote:

Is this possible today? On which 'red electric train' to use John
Betjeman's term, to which beach?

Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee or W&C will all get you to this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twic/324765673/

Which of those have red trains today?
--
David Biddulph

David Biddulph wrote:

Which of those have red trains today?
--
David Biddulph

As far as I know, the only red multiple unit trains anywhere in the
Greater London area are SWT's refurbished class 455s, and they aren't
completely red, and they aren't underground trains either.

I did read somewhere that before 507s & 508s took over completely, one
of the LMS type Merseyside emus which had been painted into period
maroon livery, had been used in a film or TV drama to represent prewar
LT surface line stock.

On 14 Jan 2007 08:04:12 -0800, wrote:


David Biddulph wrote:

Which of those have red trains today?
--
David Biddulph

As far as I know, the only red multiple unit trains anywhere in the
Greater London area are SWT's refurbished class 455s, and they aren't
completely red, and they aren't underground trains either.

I did read somewhere that before 507s & 508s took over completely, one
of the LMS type Merseyside emus which had been painted into period
maroon livery, had been used in a film or TV drama to represent prewar
LT surface line stock.


Regards
JonH

On 14 Jan 2007 08:04:12 -0800, wrote:


David Biddulph wrote:

Which of those have red trains today?
--
David Biddulph

As far as I know, the only red multiple unit trains anywhere in the
Greater London area are SWT's refurbished class 455s, and they aren't
completely red, and they aren't underground trains either.

I did read somewhere that before 507s & 508s took over completely, one
of the LMS type Merseyside emus which had been painted into period
maroon livery, had been used in a film or TV drama to represent prewar
LT surface line stock.

http://www.alderneyrailway.com/eng-metro.htm

Very nearly, they sent the 1938 Tube Stock back...

Regards
JonH

In article ,
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On 14 Jan 2007 08:04:12 -0800, wrote:

David Biddulph wrote:

Which of those have red trains today?

As far as I know, the only red multiple unit trains anywhere in the
Greater London area are SWT's refurbished class 455s, and they
aren't completely red, and they aren't underground trains either.

I did read somewhere that before 507s & 508s took over completely,
one of the LMS type Merseyside emus which had been painted into period
maroon livery, had been used in a film or TV drama to represent
prewar LT surface line stock.

http://www.alderneyrailway.com/eng-metro.htm

Very nearly, they sent the 1938 Tube Stock back...

"These vehicles have aluminium bodies and hopefully will survive the salt
air."

Oh dear! They have steel underframes. :-(

If they want all-ali they want a couple of 1983 stock cars.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, David Biddulph wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
h.li...
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 wrote:

Is this possible today? On which 'red electric train' to use John
Betjeman's term, to which beach?

Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee or W&C will all get you to this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twic/324765673/

Which of those have red trains today?

I have no idea what colours the trains on any of those lines are. I don't
think the question was literally about red trains - the OP was just being
erudite in his quoting of Betjeman. Or so i thought.

tom

--
there is not much call for a Chinese George Michael