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    Dale Charman to leave LUL

    Yep. 1788468771 Back in the 70s/80s Bletchley had quite a big LUL community.
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    Dale Charman to leave LUL

    Used to be a depot office assistant at Morden Depot who came from Peterborough and a permanent night train maintainer at Golders Green who came from the IoW.
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    Dale Charman to leave LUL

    There’s also those who preferred nights alternated between nights and rest day covers,don’t know if this has changed with night tube. 1788208673 When I was working in the control tower at SMD it was always the same faces doing dead lates.
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    Research needed for thriller novel set on London Underground's Central Line

    There’s a couple of sdgs on the Victoria Line that have pits 22rd at Brixton and Victoria.
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    1992 stock Refurbishment?

    The plan is for 96TS to be refurbished there.
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    Emergency stop buttons

    On the Victoria Line if someone pushed an emergency button it killed the code giving an emergency brake application.
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    Dale Charman to leave LUL

    I was one of the train maintainers.
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    Dale Charman to leave LUL

    There was a anomaly on Victoria Line in the early days the train maintainers who did the maintenance on67TS had to pass a four week course at White City Training Centre,if they qualified they got an extra 10/-(50p) a week.Motormen qualifying as ATOs got around an extra £10 a week.
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    Dale Charman to leave LUL

    When the Victoria Line first opened you had to have at least 25 years service to be an ATO.
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    2024 Tube Stock (Siemens Inspiro London)

    It was confirmed on another forum.
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    Emergency stop buttons

    Used to get a lot of malicious operations.If I remember correctly an alarm sounded as well if one operated.They only had paper seals.
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    Emergency stop buttons

    They kill the code to the train,at least the original Victoria Line ones did.
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    Bakerloo operational incident

    Will it be worth repairing the Northfields derailment?
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    Walthamstow - Track Fault

    Very intense service,train every 90seconds.
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    Underground sign meaning?

    Heating wasn’t supposed to be on in tunnel sections,don’t know if that’s still the case.
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    Interchange Hacks: Circumventing Hostile Signage

    Where the new route to District is used to be the station inspectors office,train maintainer’s room with staff toilets and PWay room round the back.
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    Interchange Hacks: Circumventing Hostile Signage

    Find the Victoria-District interchange at Victoria is a bit of a hike now,used to be straight up the escalator from the Victoria platforms.
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    Charing Cross

    Charing Cross is used in times of disruption,passengers detrained at Green Park.
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    LUL Substations

    Most train depots on LUL have substations.
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    2024 Tube Stock (Siemens Inspiro London)

    Think when they eventually enter service,initially they’ll be on the Arnos Grove-Northfields service only.

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