Subway today

[Fossil]

looking good

An improvement on the 1970s jobby brown tiles

aye true. I see they've put down knobbly tiles for blind k'hunts over cessnock

[MacotheIsles]

Not exactly today, but just found this again. Was good fun at the time.

[bAzTNM]

That would actually have been great to see. Don't see it happening these days because of Health & Safety and the cramped conditions down there.

[MacotheIsles]

That would actually have been great to see. Don't see it happening these days because of Health & Safety and the cramped conditions down there.

It was good. The effect was enhanced by having the carriage windows blanked off (curtains I think, but can't remember) so that you lost all sense of orientation and distance and it made the distances between stops seem much longer. At each selected stop the doors would open and there would be some performance or other taking place, using the platform as a stage.

In retrospect I reckon using the underground like this for ALIEN experience would've been a real winner.

[the researcher]

The outer circle was fucked today. Took 15 minutes to get from Govan to Hillhead...

[The Egg Man]

Scottish engineering at its finest.

[motman]

Excellent

[NelMac]

Bolted up high on the wall of the stairs as you go down to the platform in Kelvinhall underground station, there is a piece of metallic 'art' up there !
It looks like a huge corkscrew on its side with an old engine radiator fan welded onto its end !
Does anyone out there know its significance/history ?
Why would they bolt it up there and not include any reference to its purpose or its meaning ?
Heres a grainy pic of it, (dodgy phone camera so apologies for the image quality) !!!
Any info would be nice, I've passed this thing for decades and never seen any reference to it anywhere !
Any ideas anyone ????

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlmtech/78 ... hotostream

[MacotheIsles]

Propulsion unit from one of George Bennie's 1939 subway cars.

[Sharon]

Is that a fact? I like that fact.

[MacotheIsles]

Well, maybe not a fact in the strictest, most literal sense of the word. It's kind of a made up fact.

[Lucky Poet]

[Godsgift]

Propulsion unit from one of George Bennie's 1939 subway cars.

I know he did the Monorail out in Bearsden/Milngavie with the prop on the front but that pic looks like a big rubber band drive. And I believe the earliest trams were cable driven.

[Sharon]

It may have became a fact in my head

[NelMac]

Thanks for the replies !
The George Bennie connection hadn't crossed my mind and it may well be related somehow but it is strange there is no information about the object !
I'm going to ask the staff the next time I buy a ticket and see if they know anything about it...
(I'm surprised the typo-police haven't shot me down yet, (propellor/propeller)) !!!