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Ohhhhh DG, it's not a brown makeover, no darling, It's a cinnamon and caramel makeover.
Carolyn | 10.03.06 - 1:34 a.m. | #
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Nice colour scheme! Is it the exact/right shade of brown though?
dg writes: The text at the top of the page is HTML colour #994F14, which is 'Pantone 470 brown', which is spot on.
geofftech | Homepage | 10.03.06 - 1:58 a.m. | #
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It's gone a bit 70s in here don't you think? Somebody pass me the fondue...
Andrew | 10.03.06 - 2:08 a.m. | #
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that's a fantastic photo in the underground carriage - brilliant.
zed | Homepage | 10.03.06 - 7:05 a.m. | #
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How do you find the time to write this superb blog AND earn a living? I think you must be an eccentric millionaire.
Fatima | 10.03.06 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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Excellent.... and every time I use Baker Stret and see the plaque telling us it was the first Underground Station I wonder which was the second.. and how much later it opened..... a few minutes presumably?
NiC | Homepage | 10.03.06 - 8:36 a.m. | #
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Very interesting - looking forward to the rest of the journey.
Joe | 10.03.06 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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It beats me too how you do all this. You must have a special gift. I bet your job involves collating and producing enormous reports. It has to be someone's job.
By the way it is cut and cover that is prohibitively expensive not deep tubes. Deep-level tubes like the Bakerloo were built to avoid the very expensive problems of diverting the many services just below the surface - even at the start of the 20th century. I'm sure you knew that really and thats what you meant to say.
Pedantic of Purley | 10.03.06 - 9:32 a.m. | #
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Hey a new blog! Ohh wait... this all looks familiar...
You know this might be one of your London posts I actually read. 
Gordon | Homepage | 10.03.06 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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Wow DG. With all these excellent links you are really spoiling us!
Katherine | Homepage | 10.03.06 - 10:37 a.m. | #
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Surely the C&SLR counts as north-south? Or is this one of those "city" vs. "City" tricks I always mess up?
dg writes: I wouldn't quite call the C&SLR (now the Northern line, Bank branch) 'central'. And at the turn of the century it only went as far north as Moorgate.
Useless\\_pedant | Homepage | 10.03.06 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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once again to reiterate:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BAKER LINE! ROCK ON AMIGO!
But sadly the tube holds nout against the NY Subway, only because of the location and the rich, intersting characters found on the trains at anytime. Also no chavs. Champion!
Jack Barrie | Homepage | 10.03.06 - 6:28 p.m. | #
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Pedants might argue that the Bakerloo line doesn't actually go into the City of London at all, unlike the Northern Bank branch....
Is that an authorised roundel? [http://www.geofftech.co.uk/iblog/?p=235]
Ian | Homepage | 10.03.06 - 8:47 p.m. | #
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I just read Geoffs problems, what a nightmare.
Jon Allen | 10.03.06 - 10:28 p.m. | #
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I hardly ever use the Bakerloo line, but I like the fact it's the only line left (as far as I can tell) that still has proper carriages, as in the picture. Little four-seater bits like on real trains.
A question for you, DG; were Bakerloo trains originally steam trains (choo choo) or the original versions of the ones we have now? If they were steam trains, where were the outlets?
chloe | Homepage | 11.03.06 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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Chloe.
No, they were electric.
There were steam trains on the district and metropolitan lines.
Ian | Homepage | 11.03.06 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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Like zed says, that's a great interior shot. I *could* say that the calm symmetry of the carriage is disturbed by the discarded orange drink can on the window-sill, hinting at a more disordered world beyond the frame. But perhaps it's just rubbish.
Great Aunt Annie | 11.03.06 - 11:31 p.m. | #
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You can take a closer look at that tube carriage here, if you insist...
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.03.06 - 12:04 a.m. | #
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Excellent blog. I lived in England when I was a kid in the early 80s, and took the train to Marylebone, then Bakerloo a short hop to Baker Street, then Jubilee to St. John's Wood every day. The Bakerloo line at that time still ran old brown and red trains that looked like they were in service during the war. The Baker Street station had the Sherlock tiles then, as well. I also remember little Cadbury's chocolate bar machines stuck to the station walls that sold bars for 50p, a big chunk of change for a ten-year-old.
Bill C. | 07.04.06 - 2:13 p.m. | #
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