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Post by hellocontrol on Apr 26, 2014 8:26:33 GMT
Well it won't be too long before the lights are turned out I have seen elsewhere mention of the last signal operators moving out before it happens with Highgate people going in for the last few weeks.
The only bit being saved is the Morden desk and diagrams (Going to LT Acton Museum).
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Post by railtechnician on Apr 27, 2014 8:40:56 GMT
Well it won't be too long before the lights are turned out I have seen elsewhere mention of the last signal operators moving out before it happens with Highgate people going in for the last few weeks. The only bit being saved is the Morden desk and diagrams. The end of an era, I enjoyed many installation jobs there. I especially enjoyed keeping the lights on all night and drilling holes in the controllers plinth when I was changing out the old GRP desks in the late 1980s. Sleeping bags and pyjamas were conspicuous by their absence for several Saturday nights! I presume some of it will end up in the Museum, it would be sacrilege not to keep some of that kit. |
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Post by hellocontrol on May 1, 2014 7:50:05 GMT
Well it won't be too long before the lights are turned out I have seen elsewhere mention of the last signal operators moving out before it happens with Highgate people going in for the last few weeks. The only bit being saved is the Morden desk and diagrams. The end of an era, I enjoyed many installation jobs there. I especially enjoyed keeping the lights on all night and drilling holes in the controllers plinth when I was changing out the old GRP desks in the late 1980s. Sleeping bags and pyjamas were conspicuous by their absence for several Saturday nights! I presume some of it will end up in the Museum, it would be sacrilege not to keep some of that kit. RT if you read my post you will see what bit is being saved. |
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Post by railtechnician on May 1, 2014 21:34:25 GMT
H-C I did read your post, you said what was being saved but not by whom! I imagine the Museum and Museum depot already have far more exhibits in store than will ever be displayed and as we know lots of LT kit is saved in other ways but far too much goes for scrap if SOS or whatever it's called these days can't refurbish it for use elsewhere on the system. Control/Regulating room equipment gets obsolete pretty quickly in the great scheme of things as technology in that area is driven very much by the wishes of the inhabitants. When I changed out all the controllers desks there it was not that long before they were changed out again to cater for new communications systems. Much the same happened in all the control rooms except the Met/Jub although it has had a heap of new technology installed which the desks we installed there to replace the earlier GRP ones are AFAIK extant. Earls Court had/has the oldest desks of all when I retired, the same pattern as fitted into the old substation electrical control room at Manor House and elsewhere.
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Post by hellocontrol on May 1, 2014 23:18:50 GMT
H-C I did read your post, you said what was being saved but not by whom! I imagine the Museum and Museum depot already have far more exhibits in store than will ever be displayed and as we know lots of LT kit is saved in other ways but far too much goes for scrap if SOS or whatever it's called these days can't refurbish it for use elsewhere on the system. Control/Regulating room equipment gets obsolete pretty quickly in the great scheme of things as technology in that area is driven very much by the wishes of the inhabitants. When I changed out all the controllers desks there it was not that long before they were changed out again to cater for new communications systems. Much the same happened in all the control rooms except the Met/Jub although it has had a heap of new technology installed which the desks we installed there to replace the earlier GRP ones are AFAIK extant. Earls Court had/has the oldest desks of all when I retired, the same pattern as fitted into the old substation electrical control room at Manor House and elsewhere. RT I am sorry I did not make it clear when I first posted I would not of wondered what was going to happen had it been me but hey they say it is easy to be misunderstood as happened with yourself. When things get saved the museum has first refusal although some items have been known to slip the net, you have been around long enough to understand all those projects you have been involved with as well as your job as a signal department person about what happens to stuff. If everything was saved there would not be enough room and a most of it would never be seen by the public due to being banished to the dark corners of Acton museum or some other place. I know of some LT/LU bits and pieces being elsewhere in the UK. I know of somethings that the museum just does not want not because they don't really have the space so if you have anything to get rid of I'm sure they will give it consideration. |
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Post by hellocontrol on May 2, 2014 8:33:21 GMT
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Post by railtechnician on May 3, 2014 23:19:34 GMT
I see! I'll shortly be into my tenth year of retirement and yet would still have more than three and a half years to serve had I not taken early retirement. I'll probably never see London again, I expect within a year there'll be very little left of anything that I knew or worked on. The last time I saw the Covent Garden and Acton Depot museums I was not overly impressed with what was on display. There will never be enough space to display all the exhibits which is a shame. Like an old soldier I expect my interest in all things LT/LU will fade away to none at all, it really is very much a case of out of sight, out of mind, corporate LUL is a very different animal to the one that I began my LT career with and is far less interesting. |
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