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Aldwych Station
John Rowland wrote:
Its not unrealistic. Thats exactly how the NYC Transit museum is set up. Its based in an old disused subway station on a spur from the main line and in the platforms they've got lots of old stock that you can wander around in. I presume that is not a tube line, but a shallow skirt-blower line, from which emergency exit could be made by the most asthmatic in about a minute. The moribund Thameslink line from Farringdon to Moorgate could probably become a museum, but for the deep tube Aldwych station with no lift or escalator it is not practical. From memory (and I only went there in December) you walk down one set of stairs to get to the museum's mezzanine level, and then a further set of stairs down to the platforms. I think the station is called State, but I might be wrong - it is directly below a big court house. http://mta.info/mta/museum/index.html The platform level appears to have one of each car for the history of the subway, so you can start at one end and walk right through the whole history of the trains. (What's rather more enjoyable are the photographs of some of the old generating stations, which were in a temporary photo gallery when I was there). |
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