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"Adrian" wrote

Ummm, lemme guess... No buffets on tube trains?

Pullman cars Mayflower and Galatea ran on the Met between 1910 and 1939.

Peter

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Dave Arquati wrote:
Neil Williams wrote:

Edward Cowling London UK wrote:

The stress of not being able to get home will far outweigh the stress of
being a bit hot, so get Ken off his latest hobby horse and leave the
Underground running.


Indeed.

I could go on about the new improved London Transport that Ken promised
us would be bought with the congestion charge money, but I think he's
spent it all on community policing and the damn Olympics.


A lot of it's gone on the bus network, to pretty good effect. The
trouble is it was a little too successful, in that it did redirect
people onto public transport, which means his income dropped. That
lead to the price rise and the "make it easier to pay" stuff to
encourage a few more people to drive and up the income again!


Talking of buses and heatwaves, I noticed on a 14 yesterday that a new
air cooling unit had been installed above the stairs on the top deck -
and very welcome it was too.



Interesting... I've seen a few of the 85s have these too (probably the
same fleet from Putney depot mind) and have wondered just how effective
the system is. Did you try sitting in different places to test the effect?

Cheers

Steve M

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Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
In message .com,
Mizter T writes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5143388.stm

They'll be putting heat councillors
on trains next :-)


I`m *not* electing any of those! Better to use trained staff, or,
failing that, heat counsellors. ;-) Isn`t British awful in its lack of
phonetic pronounciation?

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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:23:46 +0100, "Peter Masson"
wrote:


"Adrian" wrote

Ummm, lemme guess... No buffets on tube trains?

Pullman cars Mayflower and Galatea ran on the Met between 1910 and 1939.

Not quite tube trains in any sense.
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Charles Ellson ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

Ummm, lemme guess... No buffets on tube trains?

Pullman cars Mayflower and Galatea ran on the Met between 1910 and 1939.

Not quite tube trains in any sense.

The Met is certainly a tube line.

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On 4 Jul 2006 02:20:51 -0700, "Paul Weaver"
wrote:



Of course, a 500ml bottle of water costs 50p in med countries, £2 in
London.

Totally off topic, I admit, but a 5 *litre* bottle of water costs 52
cents in any of the major Spanish supermarkets (including on the
coast). Even a 2 litre bottle of Gaseosa (a light lemonade) costs
26 cents.

I keep going with Isotonics - 23 cents for a 300ml can.





--
Bill Hayles
http://www.rossrail.com

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"Adrian" wrote in message
. 244.170...
Charles Ellson ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

Ummm, lemme guess... No buffets on tube trains?

Pullman cars Mayflower and Galatea ran on the Met between 1910 and 1939.

Not quite tube trains in any sense.

The Met is certainly a tube line.

It is not. It is entirely surface (or subsurface in some places), but never
tube. That line is run entirely by A stock, which is surface stock, and
would
not fit in tube tunnels.

Even if you consider the Metropolitan to include the Circle,H+C,ELL, it
still
isn't tube.

Richard [in SG19]



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In message , Ian Patterson
writes
Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
In message .com,
Mizter T writes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5143388.stm

They'll be putting heat councillors
on trains next :-)


I`m *not* electing any of those! Better to use trained staff, or,
failing that, heat counsellors. ;-) Isn`t British awful in its lack of
phonetic pronounciation?

And normally I'm infullable :-)

--
Edward Cowling London UK

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Charles Ellson wrote:
Many older drinking fountains were designed as "non-contact" devices
which would have required a deal of intent for contamination to be
caused.

Come to think of it, I remember such devices in all the public parks
back home. They have all disappeared. Now I know why. I am sure the
little (and not so little) so and so's could find ways of contaminating
them. The contamination may or may not harm you but it would give them
intense pleasure to think you were drinking the water:-(

George

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Richard M Willis ) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying :

Ummm, lemme guess... No buffets on tube trains?

Pullman cars Mayflower and Galatea ran on the Met between 1910 and
1939.

Not quite tube trains in any sense.

The Met is certainly a tube line.

It is not. It is entirely surface (or subsurface in some places), but
never tube. That line is run entirely by A stock, which is surface
stock, and would not fit in tube tunnels.

Even if you consider the Metropolitan to include the Circle,H+C,ELL,
it still isn't tube.

sigh
Tube in the sense of "London Underground", rather than tube in the sense of
the actual engineering behind the line itself.