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Old December 17th 06, 04:23 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Colin Rosenstiel Colin Rosenstiel is offline
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Default What station is this?

In article .com, () wrote:

Tristán White wrote:

soldiers march into a tube train. Here's a screengrab I took of
it:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...4400498&size=o

Trying to work out where it was taken. My guess is Edgware, the
first platform you come to on the right hand side which is on its
own. I don't know the number of the platform.

Am I right?


That overall roof visible to the left of the train is quite
distinctive. There are two pictures on this page which show 1960
tube stock at Edgware during the 1999 Northern Heights railtour. The
topmost picture is taken from the London end of the platform, facing
the buffer stops, and the second from the bottom is taken from a camera
position similar to the shot you grabbed. As the caption remarks, "the
premature end to the New Works programme gives the station a distinctly
"unfinished" feel."

http://www.squarewheels.org.uk/rly/stock/1960tubeStock/

As for the rolling stock, it looks like 1938 stock which would have
been authentic for the Northern in 1944, although I am not sure
about livery details being absolutely correct. That "No Smoking" window
transfer looks a bit post-war, but I am willing to be corrected.


The livery looks all-red to me, not authentic for 1944. Also the signs would have still said "NON-SMOKING" at that time. "NO-SMOKING" came later. And the lack of blast netting is wrong too.

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Colin Rosenstiel