| Re: What is/was this? Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 17:23, 23rd September 2025 |     |
4. I think those were the 'railway clocks', used on the London Underground to keep trains on time. On the left is Aldwych, on the right is ... another station. Their purpose was to keep consistent timings, in the days before digital technology was invented.
| Re: What is/was this? Posted by grahame at 17:07, 23rd September 2025 | |
Four correct ... and I will fill in four more, and make a guess at No. 9 as I don't know for sure either!
1. A section of the a trial spiral escalator, John D
2. Brushes on the "sleet train" that cleared snow off 3rd rail
3. Transport for London seat covers for sale, JayMac
4. Time clocks / rather like Tacographs that logged trains passing
5. A scale model of Oxford Circus, Timmer
6. Time Clocks for staff to sign in and out on punched cards
7. Miniature railway at Acton Town Depot Museum, Chris from Nailsea
8. Lift indicator which slid up and down to say which left coming next
9. I don't know either. Guess teaching replanning of disrupted trams?
| Re: What is/was this? Posted by Timmer at 21:37, 20th September 2025 | |
5 A scale model of Oxford Circus for when the Victoria line was built in the 1960s?
| Re: What is/was this? Posted by JayMac at 20:54, 20th September 2025 | |
3. A box of LT moquettes.
| Re: What is/was this? Posted by John D at 20:41, 20th September 2025 | |
1 The bottom of a trial spiral escalator, I think it was left in situ at bottom of a former lift shaft for decades, was it Holloway Road?
Subsequently removed and taken to museum at Acton
| Re: What is/was this? Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:56, 20th September 2025 | |
7. London Underground, in miniature, at London Transport Museum. It's actually very miniature, relative to the adult human who has to sit on that cushion.
| What is/was this? Posted by grahame at 19:44, 20th September 2025 | |
No secret where I have been today ... but do you know what these things are?
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