Which tube line have you NEVER travelled on

[kyser_soze]

Full house, including tramlink, the northern thing that goes from Moorgate...dimly remember getting twatted over a weekend and riding out to the ends of each line...

 

[poster342002]

How many of you have been on the line that runs from Moorgate to Finsbury Park? Not part of the tube network anymore, though.

 

[kyser_soze]

That's the weird thing that looks like it should make a scraping noise isn't it? Uses normal trains?

 

[Crispy]

Never been on Waterloo and City in many, many visits to London. Never had any reason to.


Didn't the Waterloo and City used to be part of BR? Is it a high frequency metro like the other tube lines?

It was started by the rail companies, to link waterloo into the city. It became part of the underground when the railways were privatised. It's high frequency, and a bit of an odd experience. Everyone gets on, eveyone gets off. Very wide platforms.

 

[poster342002]

That's the weird thing that looks like it should make a scraping noise isn't it? Uses normal trains?

It uses mainline Class 313 stock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_313), but used to have tube-stock when it was a spur of the Northern Line.

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

It was started by the rail companies, to link waterloo into the city. It became part of the underground when the railways were privatised. It's high frequency, and a bit of an odd experience. Everyone gets on, eveyone gets off. Very wide platforms.

Might have to try that one next time then

(I must confess to occasionally riding rush hour tubes out of the City for the sheer hell of it- I'd hate to have to do it everyday but as a one-off experience it has a certain something )

How many of you have been on the line that runs from Moorgate to Finsbury Park? Not part of the tube network anymore, though.

Didn't it used to be called Northern Electrics or something odd like that (I can't find my 1995 tube map atm)

 

[poster342002]

Didn't it used to be called Northern Electrics or something odd like that (I can't find my 1995 tube map atm)

It was called the Great Northern Electrics. When it was part of the tube it was known as the "Northern City" spur of the Northern Line.

 

[kyser_soze]

Poster, as you seem to be a bit of a geek with all things tube...what's the name of the font used on the wallplate signs (for electric panel covers and suchlike) on the GNE and other older bits?

Or anyone else who's a font freak...

 

[Crispy]

It would have linked into the 'Northern Heights' line, that was partly done, but WW2 got in the way. http://www.loveplums.co.uk/Tube/Northern_Heights_1.html. It's all closed down now, but the trackway has not been built on.

 

[poster342002]

Poster, as you seem to be a bit of a geek with all things tube...what's the name of the font used on the wallplate signs (for electric panel covers and suchlike) on the GNE and other older bits?

Or anyone else who's a font freak...

No idea, I'm afraid ... that's where my knowledge ends.

 

[beeboo]

I love these geeky threads

*hangs with the geeks*

I've been on them all, and Tramlink, the old Great Northern Electrics and everything

 

[Dubversion]

all of them, shit poll

 

[lontok2005]

done the lot, and geekily proud of it!

 

[Madusa]

Scared the life out of me for the first couple of seconds did that. I was sitting 2 rows from the front, and a driver *was* on the train as it happened. Then he got up at a station and I wasn't expecting to move before he sat back down

Know exactly what u mean! I was freaked out and very curious my whole journey...a swift google later...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Not absolutely sure, but I think I've never travelled on the Bakerloo

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

How come so few have used the Waterloo and City? It's priceless if you're trying to get out of London from East London...

 

[Griff]

How come so few have used the Waterloo and City? It's priceless if you're trying to get out of London from East London...

Dunno, but living most of my life in London, it's the only one I've never used.

Fuck, I can't' even think where it goes or starts.


The East London Line was used to get to Wapping back in the early '80s to the Crass Anarchy Centre. My fondest memories of it.

 

[muffin-ed]

Born and bred Londoner but have never been on the Waterloo and City -no idea why. I've also never noticed the wide gap between the train and the platform at the first set of doors at Moorgate on the Northen line although I use it a lot.

pointless drivel but makes my insomniac time more bearable!

M-Ed

 

[cesare]

Dunno, but living most of my life in London, it's the only one I've never used.

Fuck, I can't' even think where it goes or starts.


The East London Line was used to get to Wapping back in the early '80s to the Crass Anarchy Centre. My fondest memories of it.

Bank straight through to Waterloo ... zoom

(((Wapping from 23rd Dec)))

 

[cesare]

Proberbly the ultimate way to ride it, if you are into tubes and can afford it. http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/131.aspx

I might give that a try, cheers!

 

[tim]

The now closed Post Office line

 

[laptop]

Or anyone else who's a font freak...

Johnston


It came before Gill Sans and basically is the grandparent of all modern sans fonts!

 

[the button]

All of them.

Damn that single journey on the Waterloo & City. Should have got the 26 bus.

 

[tashi]

I went on them all (including the DLR) in a 7 hour pub crawl once

You can do it in one stop per line if you start at Liverpool Street. Not for long though, the Whitechapel-Shadwell bit was essential. Plus the pub at shadwell isn't there anymore