On 01/09/2019 14:25, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 01/09/2019 14:05, Peter Able wrote:
On 01/09/2019 12:41, MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 31/08/2019 23:36, Bryan Morris wrote:
In message , MissRiaElaine
writes

So why do all the roundel signs say Underground..? That's what it's
been known as my whole life and I was born in London even though I
don't live there any more.

Next time you're in London get a map, it's called the TUBE map.

It is now, because some idiot decided to change the name. All the old
maps I saved from my childhood say Underground.


Save toner and breath - and call it LT.Â* That was how it was 50 years
ago when I worked for, LT.


Wasn't it LRT for about 15 minutes in the 80s?



It was indeed. LRT was all part of Mrs. Thatcher's beating up the GLC,
all LT operations moving from the GLC to the Secretary of State for
Transport. Two years later, she extended the battle - sacking the GLC
entirely.

But that was well after my time with LT. Just for the OP, morale was
sky-high in those days. Staff were proud to be with LT - and I don't
remember any circumstances that there was ambiguity. I started at
Chiswick Works which was primarily LT Buses, but did do things like
paint tests for both rail and road IIRC. Lots of painted panes on the
flat roof of a building - 500 shades of red! On the engineering side
everyone was so proud of the A-stock and, being Chiswick, the RMs in
particular - though I never saw one on the skid pad - I wonder why?

I was in hospital for a colonoscopy this morning - but my spirits were
well and truly raised by a bunch of bus enthusiasts marshalling RM(L)s
and an SM(?) outside the endoscopy ward !

PA