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Trains into Victoria + Victoria line chat

If you are passing through Victoria Station on Thursday, you may want to keep an eye open for this ( normally platform 1?)
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Loos in Victoria are 50p a go.

FIFTY PEE!

I thought the 30p at London Bridge was taking the piss, but 50p! Raw exploitation.....
 
Use spoons loos. In the days before barriers, we used to use the loos on the trains standing in the station, especially late at night, cold, after a skinfull . :thumbs:
 
Belushi said:
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We've been watching this in work, and I still find it amazing that some of the processes and ways of doing things in this video are still what we're doing now, just with more hard hats, exclusion zones, gloves and safety glasses!

Whilst what we're doing on Crossrail is pretty damn amazing, what they managed to do when building the old tube lines is almost more impressive, no computers or automated processes and still they managed to thread their way under London!

Anyway, sorry for derailing the topic :)
 
Zimri said:
Anyway, sorry for derailing the topic :)
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Not at all - aimless waffle is what this thread is about ;)
I'm reading the Blacklisted -- New Internationalist book at the moment, and it includes lots about general bad practice in the building trade in general (as well as its main topic of contractors blacklisting 'troublemaker' workers) - one account was that in order to save money building the channel tunnel, the employer withdrew portaloos leaving builders to shit in black bin bags! Supposedly the lack of toilets on sites was very common in the 70s, but the fact it can still be like this nowadays is pretty depressing. Digging tube tunnels must've been a hard gig...plenty of shovel and spade action in that video....
 
ska invita said:
Not at all - aimless waffle is what this thread is about ;)
I'm reading the Blacklisted -- New Internationalist book at the moment, and it includes lots about general bad practice in the building trade in general (as well as its main topic of contractors blacklisting 'troublemaker' workers) - one account was that in order to save money building the channel tunnel, the employer withdrew portaloos leaving builders to shit in black bin bags! Supposedly the lack of toilets on sites was very common in the 70s, but the fact it can still be like this nowadays is pretty depressing. Digging tube tunnels must've been a hard gig...plenty of shovel and spade action in that video....
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Listening to some of the boys on the shifts at the moment, it's been as bad as that as recently as the London Power Tunnels projects in the last 5-10 years! It's not always about cost saving, but sometimes it's space constraints and just the nature of the work, without going into too many details there are open conveyor belts and no toilets on some of the smaller 3-4m TBMs :hmm:

But yeah, proper backbreaking work, but these boys were properly tough. We still do hand mining in this day and age, especially beneath London where you sometimes just don't have the room to get plant equipment in there, it's incredibly hard work in hot conditions and very, very confined spaces! It's not just your normal miner that goes into this, some experience is definitely needed by about 80-90% of the boys involved!
 
Zimri said:
We still do hand mining in this day and age, especially beneath London where you sometimes just don't have the room to get plant equipment in there, it's incredibly hard work in hot conditions and very, very confined spaces! It's not just your normal miner that goes into this, some experience is definitely needed by about 80-90% of the boys involved!
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I'm working on a project that involves digging 30m deep caissons. Nothing too out of the ordinary, but the starting point is a hand-excavated tunnel 25m underneath a 9 storey listed building. It will literally be dug by sweaty topless irishmen. It's like something out of the 1800s. (although I imagine they'll be using powered spades/breakers)
 
One reason or other I was at work late, got to Victoria at 9.23, next Orpington train is at 9.55! I thought they were every 15 minutes? Can't look up the timetable right now, but I fear the worst for the later trains..

Oh well, christening the spoons! Feel it won't be the last time...
 
I can confirm your fears - they switch to half-hourly around 9pm. I used to use the train from Victoria to Brixton or Herne Hill as a route back from work sometimes...basically the Orpington trains and I'd often get caught out by this.
 
Only just caught it in the end :D Oh well, will learn the times... Seems I only just missed one earlier

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Found myself calling it the Vicky line in my head today.... I think I'm going native ;)
 
Victoria is very handy for me and one of the best things there is the cheese shop. I know it's expensive but guaranteed to get proper Sage derby there and probably Brie with truffles :thumbs:
 
Victoria is a weird area...something slightly soulless about it...Scotland Yard around the corner too.
 
It's a great area. There is so much there. The two cathederals. The Regency Cafe (superb), Horticural Halls, Strutton Ground/market, Petty France, not to mention some great pubs like The Speaker, The Victoria, The Plumbers not to mention all the tourist stuff
 
hash tag said:
It's a great area. There is so much there. The two cathederals. The Regency Cafe (superb), Horticural Halls, Strutton Ground/market, Petty France, not to mention some great pubs like The Speaker, The Victoria, The Plumbers not to mention all the tourist stuff
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might have to explore! Petty France is just a place to get a passport to me. Is there more to it than that?
Not checked the pubs and dont know what Horticural Halls or Strutton Ground/market is...will have a look one day...
 
I find the area around Victoria a bit weird too. It's sort-of part of central London but also feels a bit peripheral.
 
Yes - the patch south of Victoria Street can be unexpected.

Quite a bit of old social housing, part surrounded by the commercial / government world north of victoria street and east of marsham street, and separated from Pimlico by Vauxhall Bridge Road.

The post office consider it to be SW London, despite being north of the thames.

I had a job just off Victoria Street in the late 80s and liked Strutton Ground market then. Don't know how well it's survived.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
Yes - the patch south of Victoria Street can be unexpected.

Quite a bit of old social housing, part surrounded by the commercial / government world north of victoria street and east of marsham street, and separated from Pimlico by Vauxhall Bridge Road.

The post office consider it to be SW London, despite being north of the thames.

I had a job just off Victoria Street in the late 80s and liked Strutton Ground market then. Don't know how well it's survived.
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It is still there but mainly hot lunch stands.
 
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