Rumours
 

There have been lots & lots of rumours about things on the underground
i.e. tube station for Buckingham Palace being one such. There are a
number on several threads just so we can put them all on one thread so
feel free to put what you have heard or know about. My own is that
there is supposed to be a siding at St Jame's Park, which there is not
there was a crossover taken out in the 1960s but further there's
supposed to be a train stabled there for use in an emergency.

Rumours
 

On Apr 16, 7:40?pm, wrote:
There have been lots & lots of rumours about things on the underground
i.e. tube station for Buckingham Palace being one such. There are a
number on several threads just so we can put them all on one thread so
feel free to put what you have heard or know about. My own is that
there is supposed to be a siding at St Jame's Park, which there is not
there was a crossover taken out in the 1960s but further there's
supposed to be a train stabled there for use in an emergency.

Presumably the siding was filled with a clapped-out R-stock train so
that Her Majesty could take a nostalgic last trip to Upminster before
the nuclear fallout consumed not only Lots Road power station but
everything else within a 50-mile radius!

Of ALL the methods of transport likely to be used to get the Royal
Family out of London, surely the Underground, with all the
vicissitudes that would involve (e.g. dozens of abandoned trains all
along the track) was the least likely!

Marc.

Rumours
 

On 18 Apr, 23:40, " wrote:
On Apr 16, 7:40?pm, wrote:

There have been lots & lots of rumours about things on the underground
i.e. tube station for Buckingham Palace being one such. There are a
number on several threads just so we can put them all on one thread so
feel free to put what you have heard or know about. My own is that
there is supposed to be a siding at St Jame's Park, which there is not
there was a crossover taken out in the 1960s but further there's
supposed to be a train stabled there for use in an emergency.

Presumably the siding was filled with a clapped-out R-stock train so
that Her Majesty could take a nostalgic last trip to Upminster before
the nuclear fallout consumed not only Lots Road power station but
everything else within a 50-mile radius!

Of ALL the methods of transport likely to be used to get the Royal
Family out of London, surely the Underground, with all the
vicissitudes that would involve (e.g. dozens of abandoned trains all
along the track) was the least likely!

Marc.

No it was supposed to be an F stock, the underground could be used for
something it's only when the bomb was actually dropped that it ceases
to be useful.

Rumours
 

On Apr 19, 9:28?am, wrote:
On 18 Apr, 23:40, " wrote:





On Apr 16, 7:40?pm, wrote:

There have been lots & lots of rumours about things on the underground
i.e. tube station for Buckingham Palace being one such. There are a
number on several threads just so we can put them all on one thread so
feel free to put what you have heard or know about. My own is that
there is supposed to be a siding at St Jame's Park, which there is not
there was a crossover taken out in the 1960s but further there's
supposed to be a train stabled there for use in an emergency.

Presumably the siding was filled with a clapped-out R-stock train so
that Her Majesty could take a nostalgic last trip to Upminster before
the nuclear fallout consumed not only Lots Road power station but
everything else within a 50-mile radius!

Of ALL the methods of transport likely to be used to get the Royal
Family out of London, surely the Underground, with all the
vicissitudes that would involve (e.g. dozens of abandoned trains all
along the track) was the least likely!

Marc.

No it was supposed to be an F stock, the underground could be used for
something it's only when the bomb was actually dropped that it ceases
to be useful.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

F stock (like the car that used to be in the Science Museum?) - I find
it difficult to know whether you are being serious or sarastic!

But, in your original post, you said there is no siding (I'm sure if
there was, we'd know about it by now), so is this just one of those
old wives' tales then, F stock or not?

Marc.

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On 19 Apr 2007 01:28:56 -0700, wrote:


No it was supposed to be an F stock, the underground could be used for
something it's only when the bomb was actually dropped that it ceases
to be useful.

That's why they were called "The Tanks" g.
That makes me feel old - they've been withdrawn 45 years and I can
remember them is if it were yesterday.



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Bill Hayles

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