On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:21:55 +0100, Chris Coulson
wrote:

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 00:10:24 +0100, "JMUpton2000" securitynovels @
freeuk.com wrote:

Waterloo Millenium Gardens provides a brilliant ringside seat

Absolutely. Makes a pleasant change when a major bit of engineering
work like this takes place in a location with such good public viewing
access.

Thanks for sharing your photos, if anyone craves even more (including
some close-ups of the carriage undersides as they were craned
overhead), I've put the good ones from my collection online as well at
http://tornado.pair.com/drain_cleaning/index.html

Regards
Chris

Thanks for your pics too.

Amazing how dirty the car ends are. I guess the train wash does not
manage to reach in to the gap between cars, assuming there is even a
train wash down there. But you'd think they would do these bits by
hand every couple of months!

Peter Frimberly wrote:
Thanks for sharing your photos, if anyone craves even more (including
some close-ups of the carriage undersides as they were craned
overhead), I've put the good ones from my collection online as well at
http://tornado.pair.com/drain_cleaning/index.html

What surprises me is that the cars are still powered up enough to
display "Bank" on the destination screens while going through this
procedure. Do these trains not have a full "off" switch?

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Simon Hewison

"Simon Hewison" wrote in message
...
Peter Frimberly wrote:
Thanks for sharing your photos, if anyone craves even more (including
some close-ups of the carriage undersides as they were craned
overhead), I've put the good ones from my collection online as well at
http://tornado.pair.com/drain_cleaning/index.html

What surprises me is that the cars are still powered up enough to display
"Bank" on the destination screens while going through this procedure. Do
these trains not have a full "off" switch?

No power needed - due to the rather limited range of destinations it is just
a sticker.

Peter Smyth

In message , Peter Smyth
writes
What surprises me is that the cars are still powered up enough to display
"Bank" on the destination screens while going through this procedure. Do
these trains not have a full "off" switch?

No power needed - due to the rather limited range of destinations it is just
a sticker.

Let's hope they remember to put them back facing the same direction or
else the driver may get confused.

--
Bob Adams - email: bob55 at ntlworld dot com

Presumably that's why there is a large "B" or "W" sticker on each end
of each carriage!

Marc.

JRS: In article . com,
dated Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:05:48 remote, seen in news:uk.transport.london,
posted :
Presumably that's why there is a large "B" or "W" sticker on each end
of each carriage!

They could paint the Bank end of everything black and the Waterloo end
white ...

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They could, but wouldn't that be discriminatory against the
colour-blind?

Come to think of it, the B and W is discriminatory against the
illiterate. Shame on TFL for being so politically incorrect!

Marc.