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Post by ibus246 on Mar 5, 2016 22:58:03 GMT
Found this on YouTube. Makes interesting viewing about the underground in 1996 and the very much evident lack of investment in the future. One must think how much has changed in 20 years. youtu.be/G31W3EZtwl0 |
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Post by snoggle on Mar 6, 2016 12:56:45 GMT
Found this on YouTube. Makes interesting viewing about the underground in 1996 and the very much evident lack of investment in the future. One must think how much has changed in 20 years. youtu.be/G31W3EZtwl0Wow that's a trip back in time. I recognise so many people in that programme. Bob Everard ended up working in our team - knew so much about rolling stock, track and signals. David Bailey (the man with the white hair) was my Director for a long while and I've sat in his office on those seats so many times. And I even had to get answers to questions for dear old Glenda Jackson when she became a transport minister.  Mr Bailey also ensured I got millions in my budget to install ticket gates in a lot of the busiest stations outside Zone 1. I agree a fair amount has changed but remember that was 1996 and the programme concluded that a decade would be needed to bring it up to scratch. We are twenty years on and it's not done yet. Those same Picc Line trains are still in service and have another 8-10 years still to go - if you'd said they'd be 45-50 years old before they were retired back in 1996 there'd have been apoplexy. Also worth bearing in mind that Covent Garden has still not been expanded and isn't even on any LU shopping list for major works but it has had its lifts fully replaced. However the usage had gone up to almost 22m in the year before the lift works were done - >50% higher than the number quoted in the programme for 1996. |
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Post by ibus246 on Mar 6, 2016 15:49:39 GMT
Found this on YouTube. Makes interesting viewing about the underground in 1996 and the very much evident lack of investment in the future. One must think how much has changed in 20 years. youtu.be/G31W3EZtwl0Wow that's a trip back in time. I recognise so many people in that programme. Bob Everard ended up working in our team - knew so much about rolling stock, track and signals. David Bailey (the man with the white hair) was my Director for a long while and I've sat in his office on those seats so many times. And I even had to get answers to questions for dear old Glenda Jackson when she became a transport minister. Mr Bailey also ensured I got millions in my budget to install ticket gates in a lot of the busiest stations outside Zone 1. I agree a fair amount has changed but remember that was 1996 and the programme concluded that a decade would be needed to bring it up to scratch. We are twenty years on and it's not done yet. Those same Picc Line trains are still in service and have another 8-10 years still to go - if you'd said they'd be 45-50 years old before they were retired back in 1996 there'd have been apoplexy. Also worth bearing in mind that Covent Garden has still not been expanded and isn't even on any LU shopping list for major works but it has had its lifts fully replaced. However the usage had gone up to almost 22m in the year before the lift works were done - >50% higher than the number quoted in the programme for 1996. Are you still with LU Snoggle? You sound like you had a big role throughout.... |
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Post by snoggle on Mar 6, 2016 16:21:01 GMT
Are you still with LU Snoggle? You sound like you had a big role throughout.... No - I left in 2012. Had had enough to be honest as we were being mucked about very badly in terms of departmental reorganisation. In my own little way I've left my mark on London's transport. - I looked after Smartcard ticketing as Client for years before we managed to get a PFI contract together. I invented parts of the system design. - I was Client for a lot of Underground ticket gates including Brixton and Stockwell (first ones outside Z1), the Victoria Line north end, South end of the Northern and other select places like Whitechapel, Hammersmith, East Ham. I did the deal with LTS Rail to put the first gates into a TOC Station at Barking. - I calculated all the ticket office window, ticket machine and gate numbers for the JLE stations. I helped design and review all the JLE stations. - I helped draft the PPP contracts and came up with different parts of it. I also ran a sizeable chunk of the JNP contract for a fair few years. I'm sure there are plenty of other things but the above are the most visible things in terms of stuff the public use every day and which are part of London's fabric. Clearly it wasn't a "one man band" but I helped all those happen alongside lots of other people. I'm probably proudest of the smartcard and ticket gate projects. I have been known to "tap" the gates at Walthamstow and say to myself "I helped put these here".   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2016 16:22:36 GMT
Start the engine??? On an electric train?
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Post by ServerKing on Mar 6, 2016 17:09:58 GMT
Start the engine??? On an electric train? I noticed that good to see that 20 years on, BBC reporting is just as accurate  |
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Mr Bailey also ensured I got millions in my budget to install ticket gates in a lot of the busiest stations outside Zone 1. 
