Dave Newt wrote:


Tristán White wrote:
Dave Newt wrote in
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Tristán White wrote:
I took this photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25124954@N00/480556440/
#comment72157600218892777

Can you guess...
Before reading the other replies...

(a) where it is
Warren Street, bottom of Northern Line escalators

(b) what it's for?
I've been meaning to post this question for bloody MONTHS and keep
forgetting!

I know the answer to (a), of course, but would love to know the
answer to (b) as it confuses the hell out of me whenever I see it.
Me too.



Yep. you and Dave Newt guessed the location, but still no satisfactory
answer as to its purpose I'm glad to see.


Haven't you seen the other post from pcjs00 in which he says it's to
help escape from a trapdoor in the floor?

If I leave the house early enough (i.e. in the next ten mins) I might
take a detour to have a gander!

Well, I never doubted him, but there is indeed a trapdoor there!

On Fri, 18 May 2007 20:00:57 +0100, Dave Newt
wrote:

Dave Newt wrote:


Tristán White wrote:
Yep. you and Dave Newt guessed the location, but still no satisfactory
answer as to its purpose I'm glad to see.


Haven't you seen the other post from pcjs00 in which he says it's to
help escape from a trapdoor in the floor?

If I leave the house early enough (i.e. in the next ten mins) I might
take a detour to have a gander!

Well, I never doubted him, but there is indeed a trapdoor there!

And at a guess it may be for access to the lower machine chambers for
the escalators but probably unlikely as it looks very constrained. The
only other issue is whether it leads to ducts, drains or platform
inverts of some form at Warren St.

The only other idea is whether it is some very old part of the station
if Warren St was at any point a lift only station. I don't know the
history but given the orientation it is possible it might go to a
disused part of the station that was under the bottom of the old lift
shafts.

If I remember and I'm going through the station I might just show my
staff pass and ask the chaps in the little control point at the top of
the Vic Line escalators.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Is is the remains of the subway to Euston Square station?

wrote in news:1180293369.145899.170730
@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

Is is the remains of the subway to Euston Square station?


No, the entrance to that subway was from street level.

The only thing I can imagine it *could* be is something to do with the old
lift that used to operate in Warren Street station. But I have no idea, to
be honest!

Tristán White wrote:
wrote in news:1180293369.145899.170730
@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

Is is the remains of the subway to Euston Square station?

No, the entrance to that subway was from street level.

The only thing I can imagine it *could* be is something to do with
the old lift that used to operate in Warren Street station. But I
have no idea, to be honest!

Why don't you ask the staff at the station?

"John Rowland" wrote in
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Tristán White wrote:
wrote in news:1180293369.145899.170730
@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

Is is the remains of the subway to Euston Square station?

No, the entrance to that subway was from street level.

The only thing I can imagine it *could* be is something to do with
the old lift that used to operate in Warren Street station. But I
have no idea, to be honest!

Why don't you ask the staff at the station?


that would be too simple :-)