Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

I haven't seen this here so..

London Underground is opening the doors of the old Aldwych Underground
station, closed to the public since 1994, for a special exhibition in
the ticket hall, to show how the Tube is being transformed.

The exhibition will take place from Monday 28 June to Friday 9 July
from 10:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and 10.00 to 16:00 on the weekend. The
entrance to the exhibition is on Surrey Street, WC2R 2NE, which is off
the Strand and off Temple Place, with Temple station the closest Tube
station.

More details at http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/proj...mes/10127.aspx

Regards
Sunil

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:12:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sunil Sood wrote:
I haven't seen this here so..

London Underground is opening the doors of the old Aldwych Underground
station, closed to the public since 1994, for a special exhibition in
the ticket hall, to show how the Tube is being transformed.

Ticket hall? Bah. People would want to go down the the platforms! :)

B2003

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On 01/07/2010 09:27, d wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:12:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sunil wrote:
I haven't seen this here so..

London Underground is opening the doors of the old Aldwych Underground
station, closed to the public since 1994, for a special exhibition in
the ticket hall, to show how the Tube is being transformed.

Ticket hall? Bah. People would want to go down the the platforms! :)

The lift doesn't work.

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On 1 July, 13:33, Basil Jet wrote:
On 01/07/2010 09:27, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:12:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sunil *wrote:
I haven't seen this here so..

London Underground is opening the doors of the old Aldwych Underground
station, closed to the public since 1994, for a special exhibition in
the ticket hall, to show how the Tube is being transformed.

Ticket hall? Bah. People would want to go down the the platforms! :)

The lift doesn't work.

How do the film crews get down?

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On Jul 1, 6:34*pm, MIG wrote:

On 1 July, 13:33, Basil Jet wrote:

On 01/07/2010 09:27, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:12:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sunil *wrote:
I haven't seen this here so..

London Underground is opening the doors of the old Aldwych Underground
station, closed to the public since 1994, for a special exhibition in
the ticket hall, to show how the Tube is being transformed.

Ticket hall? Bah. People would want to go down the the platforms! :)

The lift doesn't work.

How do the film crews get down?

Lug it all down - for this reason it's not always a popular choice of
location with the crew...

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On 1 July, 18:37, Mizter T wrote:
On Jul 1, 6:34*pm, MIG wrote:





On 1 July, 13:33, Basil Jet wrote:

On 01/07/2010 09:27, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:12:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sunil *wrote:
I haven't seen this here so..

London Underground is opening the doors of the old Aldwych Underground
station, closed to the public since 1994, for a special exhibition in
the ticket hall, to show how the Tube is being transformed.

Ticket hall? Bah. People would want to go down the the platforms! :)

The lift doesn't work.

How do the film crews get down?

Lug it all down - for this reason it's not always a popular choice of
location with the crew...

It would be great fun if they took people there by train. I spose
without an exit they can't anyway, regardless of any other
complications.

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On Jul 1, 6:37*pm, Mizter T wrote:

On Jul 1, 6:34*pm, MIG wrote:

On 1 July, 13:33, Basil Jet wrote:

On 01/07/2010 09:27, wrote:
[Aldwych ticket hall open for exhibition]
Ticket hall? Bah. People would want to go down the the platforms! :)

The lift doesn't work.

How do the film crews get down?

Lug it all down - for this reason it's not always a popular choice of
location with the crew...

I'm answering a question you haven't quite answered! Obviously the
crew can just go down the staircase - however, as I intimate, it's the
oodles of kit that's the issue!

Still, perhaps Warner Bros might want to shoot some scenes for the
forthcoming money-is-no-object Harry Potter feature films down there,
with LU wangling a free lift replacement out of them...

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On 1 July, 19:07, Mizter T wrote:
On Jul 1, 6:37*pm, Mizter T wrote:

On Jul 1, 6:34*pm, MIG wrote:

On 1 July, 13:33, Basil Jet wrote:

On 01/07/2010 09:27, wrote:
[Aldwych ticket hall open for exhibition]
Ticket hall? Bah. People would want to go down the the platforms! :)

The lift doesn't work.

How do the film crews get down?

Lug it all down - for this reason it's not always a popular choice of
location with the crew...

I'm answering a question you haven't quite answered! Obviously the
crew can just go down the staircase - however, as I intimate, it's the
oodles of kit that's the issue!

Still, perhaps Warner Bros might want to shoot some scenes for the
forthcoming money-is-no-object Harry Potter feature films down there,
with LU wangling a free lift replacement out of them...

Yes, I was hinting (without saying) that if the stairs are good enough
for film crews lugging stuff, then they ought to be good enough for
someone holding a Metro and a briefcase.

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:37:51 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
The lift doesn't work.

How do the film crews get down?

Lug it all down - for this reason it's not always a popular choice of
location with the crew...

Have they removed the 72 stock and lifted the track then from Holborn?

B2003

Aldwych Underground station: special exhibition
 

On 1 July, 19:07, Mizter T wrote:

I'm answering a question you haven't quite answered! Obviously the
crew can just go down the staircase - however, as I intimate, it's the
oodles of kit that's the issue!

Still, perhaps Warner Bros might want to shoot some scenes for the
forthcoming money-is-no-object Harry Potter feature films down there,
with LU wangling a free lift replacement out of them...

I've seen pictures of film people carrying sections of camera track
down the stairs. How you get something like a camera dolly or a HMI
lamp ballast down there I don't know. The lift cars which were in use
at the time of the closure were fixed in position in the shaft; I
think the machinary is still in place. Aren't there two other shafts
which never had lifts installed in them? Maybe for a large shoot with
lots of equipment they could rig up a builders hoist in one of those.
Or maybe they only use it for small shoots with limited equipment, and
they do carry it all down the stairs.