please empty your brain below

Good grief - you went out!

How many bottle of Becks, exactly?

To paraphrase Wilde; once (writing about the demise of the silver Underground train) is forgivable but twice is definitely geekiness.

DG is a trainspotter. It's official.

Glad you enjoyed your ride DG and believe me it's nice to actually haul around a bunch of nice people who are interested in what we do!

And THC is most definitely right - you're a geek - it's official!

I request that the honorable gentlemen take several previous trainspotting activities into consideration.

Like the old moquette seats? You can use this to give yourself some geniune 1970s tube/bus wallpaper on your desktop! http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/assets.../moquette-
1.jpg


@tony

thanks.. .-)

I had no idea. I should have twigged when I read your Croxley Link post on londonconnections but I thought that was based purely on local interest, like.

After the last couple of days I think you may have some more geeks showing up round here from now on. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether that's a good thing!

Come to think of it I discovered your blog through the Metroland series you did and should have worked it out then. It is indeed a good thing that I never became a policeman...

Great to finally meet you last night. Wish I'd had the chance to chat at greater length, but the whole evening seemed to be over in the blink of an eye.

The swansong for the retro District line rolling stock, made all the more fascinating by DG.

I wonder if there were more cameras here or at the closure of Shoreditch tube station just under a couple of years ago?

Shoreditch was a much more widely publicised event than last night's celebration.

The reason being that it was only within a week or so that we knew exactly when it would happen, and what we wold be able to do.

But we did our best - everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.

There's something comfortably reassuring about hanging onto a firm but flexible plastic teardrop as your train rocks and judders from station to station.

I'm beginning to worry about you, DG.

I updated the Wikipedia page about the D[78] stock. If anyone wants to look over it and check I've got the facts right, feel free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lon...round\\_D78\\_Stock


Could I ask which half of the Ship your blogmeet was in? My colleagues and I unintentionally displaced a group through our sheer volume and I hope it wasn't you and your fellow bloggers!

dg writes: Northern half. Don't worry, our sheer volume was such that nobody displaced us all evening. I hope we didn't inconvenience you...

DG... wouldn't it be more satisfying to have a dangly-bobbly thing in EACH hand and imagine they belong to our 'Miserable Parsimonious Prime Minister'

just a thought... :o)

Not at all! But then again I do normally reside upstairs in the Southern half...

It was good to meet you at last. I like the idea of old school bloggers - none of these Johnny-come-lately types who have only been at it for three years. I remember when it were all fields around 'ere...

My old route

The evry first day these trains appeared on the District (replacing those clapped out 30s models) I was at Hammersmith hoping to catch one. My best friend and I decided to get off each train after one stop in the hope that the next might be one of those shiny new ones with their door buttons and (briefly) yellow floors. And so it was we whooped with delight when we saw it come round the bend into West Kensington station that evening....in almost mint condition!











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