underground train

These are perhaps the biggest supplier of Tube stock for 4 mm in the UK.
http://www.radleymodels.co.uk/index.php

4mm Scale Tube Stock is also available from these people
http://www.metromodels.net/about_us.htm

London Underground District Line locomotives from Silver Fox ( 4mm )
http://www.silverfoxmodels.co.uk/lu/1905.htm

I also think i have seen somewhere that Roxy Mouldings do some of the older Tube stock coachs etc ?? not sure but they might

Hope this helps everyone

Nikki

- Still would like to see some 2mm stock for london underground but havent found any yet.!!!!

Yes Alastair,

I still have a free pass for Underground, Buses, Trams, Docklands Light Railway and soon discount on River services, except that its marked 'Retired' - I had 32 years with London Transport Executive/London Regional Transport/London Underground Ltd/Metronet Rail starting off in the Chief Civil Engineers department within the Bridges & Structures office, then to Permanent Way Design Office, then Minor Works Projects, then Fleet Engineering where I first went into Health, Safety and Quality and took an early retirement with enhanced deferred pension after finishing my career (or so I thought) as a Supply Assurance Auditor with Metronet.

Set up my own company undertaking Quality Management consultancy and auditing for small and medium businesses and just returned back to the railway as contract auditor on the Blackfriars Project.

I remember New Cross Depot very well - it was a tip! But the East London Line had its own character now being rapidly eroded within the new London Overground line due to open in 2010 or 2011?

Cheers,

Dave

The problem with the EFE tube trains when motorised is that there is way too much friction from all the non-pinpoint trailing axles, even after removing the metal support plates that act as handbrakes! I have yet to find a good solution to this problem, although I am working on it (slowly!).

Adding to Nikki's list of 4mm scale suppliers, Little Bus Company offers resin C stock kits as pairs of coaches, one driving motor, one trailer, which is essentially how the real C69 and C77 stock is made up. Their web site is http://www.little-bus.com/. She beat me to the others!!

New Cross bus depot..where I worked, wasn't too bad back in the real LT days....it boasted the first example of LT's attempt to recruit/retain staff....a completely re-worked staff canteen.

which included CARPETS...posh restaurant seating, a 'quiet' area where crews could relax in a convivial atmosphere....even a full bank of posh food/drinks dispensers for those times when the kitchens were closed...

'relaxy-mood' music was piped in too...

Surprisingly it was a place a lot of staff could feel happy to use OFF-DUTY....

This contrasted with the gents toilet/showers/ clean-up room....which although spotlessly clean, still boasted the full-length mirror by the exit, with it's full height check list in gold printing, so one could confirm one's appearance coincided with London TransporT dress code regulations.

Amazingly, London TransporT actually held cookery competitions each year, with the chefs from every canteen competing.....most of my daily driving was based out of Waterloo Bus Stand, as it was known then...not a garage or bus station...public access was not encouraged.....but it too, had an excellent canteen, the manageress of which was a frequent competition winner.....and it showed with the qualityand variety of food served.

[Waterloo bus stand was located a short way up the side street that was situated right opposite the Old Vic Theatre....I recall the pleasure and mirth engendered when, one night, a conceited Rolls-Royce owner, who had parked opposite the bus stand exit...preventing safe egress [no power steering on our buses]...had his car hoicked away on the back of one of those old Met flatbeds with the lifeboat davits, for removing unlawfully-parked cars.... Reg Varney almost had it right too]