Trains into Victoria + Victoria line chat
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teuchter
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Didn't know there was once a depot at Peckham Rye!
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I havent been able to find a picture of the interior - its not the ones in that link, nor others ive googled...its not that important really - so long as the world knows i dont like it 
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Another interesting building around there is this thing
now
Safestore Self Storage Battersea Ingate
Not the best photo... its massive...i wonder what it used to be...
seems to have been furniture depository (warehouse) - Hamptons & Sons (more about them here)
found one reference online to it being Harrods furniture depository but think that's near Hammersmith Bridge.
Used by Decca from the 60s
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actually this might be it - this is a 465
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"In 1926 the firm opened a (furniture) factory at Ingate Place, Battersea close to the firm's existing depository. Amongst the firm's noteable contracts were the Royal Yacht Britannia, the liners the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the Duke of York Theatre, the Dorchester and the Mayfair Hotels and the palaces of two Indian princes, the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maharajah of Kashmir."
Puddy_Tat
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www.old-maps.co.uk 1916 mapping (can't do direct link) shows two 'engine sheds', one of which looks the right shape for this (I guess that OS were not used to the concept of an electric unit depot in 1916) more or less where Linwood Close is now (in the V shaped bit just west of the junction where the line to East Dulwich and the line to Denmark Hill separate)
When I was a kid and could see it, I quite liked all that industrial stuff between Battersea Park and Victoria. Powerstation the big gas drone things, I forget what you call them. The things that look like giant barrels. And the lights around Battersea Park at night. I go through Victoria about once a month, it always does my head in, always busy.
I think you will be travelling in a Class 465 (or 466) dating from BR times
Known as "Networkers" although I understand some railway staff call them "notworkers".
Possibly the same model and my dad and his other driver mates called plastic pigs.
Ah yeah. That's the one.
Treacle Toes
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The Pullman train looks amazing... it has its own platform in Victoria...
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Oooohhhh!
ffsear
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A German Bomber crashed into Victoria station in ww2 with no loss of life (except the German aircrew).
Battle of Britain London Monument - Sgt. R T Holmes
Battle of Britain London Monument - Sgt. R T Holmes
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I was looking at the Pullman website.... Cheapest ride is £250 to Canterbury and back, with food and a drink I thinkOooohhhh!
The One is to Istanbul though, picking up the Orient Express in France - 5 days journey - £6,500 to you
Treacle Toes
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I was looking at the Pullman website.... Cheapest ride is £250 to Canterbury and back, with food and a drink I think
The One is to Istanbul though, picking up the Orient Express in France - 5 days journey - £6,500 to you
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Another interesting building around there is this thing
now
Safestore Self Storage Battersea Ingate
Not the best photo... its massive...i wonder what it used to be...
Best seen from trains going to Waterloo....
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Anyway, Victoria, platform 8 there's a memorial to the Unknown Soldier who's body rested there overnight on its way to Westminster Abbey.
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how so? MY TRAIN goes right past it, seeing front and back...Where does your train go?
Fuck the Waterloo trains.... Orpington Train crew are ready for you lot any time any place...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
My trains go to my town, which for me is fucking handy
Your trains are full of Nigel Farage, so it's clear they are inferior.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
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this is true
19sixtysix
Life as viewed from a Gay Gorbals Garret
Is that looking out from what would be platform 8 now, where the left luggage is?
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
As an ex-Battersea dweller I wondered f it was the old Decca factory.
When I moved to Battersea in 1984 there was still 'Save Decca Records' graffiti around...
Puddy_Tat
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not entirely sure - i don't personally remember the place before it was rebuilt in 1906...
but i think this picture was taken looking from the southern end of the station building looking north towards the platforms
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Supposedly it was Deccas tv and radio building factory rather than the music biz side of things....
