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I went along on Sunday afternoon and did not encounter any queues to get in, although there were plenty of people there. I purchased the souvenir booklet.
Those old trains were so comfortable.
The new wheel changing/repairing shed was quite impressive.
John | 05.09.09 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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Ah. Hmmm. Erm, this may be the most geeky comment I have (yet) posted here, but the pic you link to is not RT3871, or indeed a RT at all. Looks rather as though it's a low-height RTL (I think they used to go thru Blackwall Tunnel way back when...)
A quick google of "RT3871" brought up this pic of it on the 248.... spot the differences...
http://londonbuspics.fotopic.net.../
p60638870.html
Venichka | 05.09.09 - 1:55 p.m. | #
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Or maybe I don't mean RTL but RLH or RH or something. I can't quite remember. But it's from one of the main builds of RTs, anyway....
Venichka | 05.09.09 - 1:59 p.m. | #
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Venichka,
Someone has already replied to your comment on Flickr confirming it is an RLH.
Pedantic of Purley | 05.09.09 - 4:21 p.m. | #
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That's an amazing collection of trains. Thanks for the tour.... just gorgeous. The Sarah Siddons is very classy.
Anonymous | 05.09.09 - 5:21 p.m. | #
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Gosh I felt I was almost there reading this!
And after taking a look at the interiors of the 1938 train and the new moulded plastic air-con version there is no comparison is there!!
The old tube map also brought back memories of my very young childhood. I learnt to navigate the tube when I was around 5-6 by 'leading' my mum along the Northern Line to Moorfields Eye Hospital at regular intervals every year!
CornishCockney | 05.09.09 - 6:37 p.m. | #
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You're right, I don't know my RTs from my RLHs. Hopefully the "RT3871" link in the main post now links to the right bus, thanks.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.09.09 - 6:54 p.m. | #
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I was there on Saturday, basking unashamedly into the glory of my status of rare unaccompanied female, to make the very helpful staff explain me all the best bits about the stock on display. I was impressed, to say the least, it was all very well organised. The 1938 stock with all the Sixties and Seventies ads was on itself worth the journey. Best day out of the season.
Barbara Jacob | Homepage | 05.09.09 - 9:43 p.m. | #
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P of P - I am the "someone" who commented about the RLH rather than the RT. I had a ride on the RT and it was exactly as DG described it - people in Cranham just smiled as it went down their streets. I also got the RLH back with a capacity load on it. It was a very pleasant trip out and I'd never been inside Upminster depot despite working for LUL. I may even have stood shoulder to shoulder with DG without realising! Certainly some of our pics are similar.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/247...N02/3871650120/
PC | 05.09.09 - 10:38 p.m. | #
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When I was standing in the queue to go under the train on Saturday, a little girl was repeatedly yelling "Go home NOW! Go home NOW!". I feel she was speaking for a significant number of her gender.
Conversely to you, DG, the two bus enthusiasts with me were disappointed to have to go on RM1 rather than the RT. Unlike trains or planes, I'm afraid buses don't really do that much for me...
Baldassaro | 07.09.09 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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You know those old tube carriages that retired to the Isle of Wight? well, two more have made it as far as Alderney. They do the mile-and-a-bit journey two or three times a day every summer weekend (and bank holidays).
Suse | 07.09.09 - 5:32 p.m. | #
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