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Heavy steel doors at Holborn
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In message , Nick Cooper 625 writes Flood-door dating from WW2. These were fitted at various stations where a bomb breaching adjacent water mains might endager the running tunnels, or where one line flooded due to a bomb breaching a tunnel under the Thames could flood into another line. These are still visible at a lot of stations, such as at the foot of both escalators linking the Northern Line with the National Rail (formerly Northern City Line) platforms at Moorgate. They could also be seen in the end-of-platform tunnels between the Piccadilly and Northern Lines at Leicester Square, but they were faced and tiled over during refurbishment work late last year, although the it's still fairly obvious where they are. If you look at the northern ends of both Northern & both Bakerloo platforms tunnels at Waterloo, you can also see the remains of the track-side flood-doors that would have been closed had any of the under-Thames tunnels been breached. At Bethnal Green too; Everytime I got through any particular station and spot them, I mean to include the detail in the web-page, but I usually promptly forget afterwards, because methodically noting facts doesn't multi-task wekk with "Commute Mode"! I've taken pictures of the winding mechanism. Are they on line anywhere, or if not, I know a very good web-site that might be able to use them... insert fluttering eyelashes emoticon that probably doesn't even exist I'm currently wading through the wartime daily bombing reports for "key points," sifting out all the LU-related railway incidents, which is producing a mass of data not previously widely known, such as hits and unexploded bombs at various depots. Also almost finished identifying by name the vast majority of the wartime fatalities on LU property, including - on an even more melancholic note - a certain amount of myth-shattering r.e. Bounds Green. |
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