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hippocrates
14th Apr 2012, 14:25
BBC News - Brompton Road Tube ghost station resurrection plans announced (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17699680)
Does this mean that ULAS no longer enjoys a town HQ?
Justin Cyder-Belvoir
14th Apr 2012, 15:33
Thought there was only 1 UAS -----Yorkshire! :D:D:D:D:D
StopStart
14th Apr 2012, 15:48
I recall an interesting evening about 500 years ago when a kindly old LU cleaner let us go down and take a look at the station and platform. Bit of a time capsule down there along with a rabbit warren of old rooms used as dorms, armouries and control rooms from the war. All the old signs are still up on the walls too.
The platform is bricked up at the edge although there are gaps onto the tracks. The gaps are useful for, say, peering through into passing trains whilst holding a torch below your chin, scaring the living crap out of the people in the carriages. The British Transport Police didn't find it as amusing though. How we laughed. :ok:
hippocrates
14th Apr 2012, 16:09
Many happy memories of such shenanigans some 495 years ago!!
Perhaps BEagle can shed some light.........:E
Ah yes, memories of escorting 'the odd' lady down the tunnels - to look at the trains, of course. I must admit, I preferred the old White Waltham, Exhibition Road combo - far more class, old chap.
JCB - there is only ONE ULAS.
That would be Liverpool then.....
johnnypaveway
14th Apr 2012, 17:26
I note with interest the rooftop garden etc- I have enjoyed several brandies on the roof. An awesome spot to people watch from....
ExAscoteer
14th Apr 2012, 17:34
Thought there was only 1 UAS -----Yorkshire!YUAS, who the **** is YUAS?!
Milo Minderbinder
14th Apr 2012, 17:53
photos
Underground History - Brompton Road Underground Station (http://underground-history.co.uk/brompton.php)
Brompton Road (http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Brompton_Road_station.html)
That would be Liverpool then..... - Junior Trash!:D
ACW599
15th Apr 2012, 09:58
Chaps, there really is only one UAS. It's based at St Athan and has a red dragon in its badge.
Everybody knows that all the others are upstart interlopers ;)
A2QFI
15th Apr 2012, 10:33
Might be the best in Wales! Have they recently won any of the inter-squadron competition silverware?
ACW599
15th Apr 2012, 10:48
>Might be the best in Wales! Have they recently won any of the inter-squadron competition silverware?<
My dear chap, UWAS is above such fripperies. Or were in my day anyway ;)
A2QFI
15th Apr 2012, 11:11
If proven excellence is a frippery so be it!
betty swallox
15th Apr 2012, 11:20
ACW599...
Agree strongly!!!
muppetofthenorth
15th Apr 2012, 12:37
Might be the best in Wales! Have they recently won any of the inter-squadron competition silverware?
Is there still any inter-squadron competitioning ongoing? It was slowly dying a death when I left the only sqn that matters - MASUAS - in 2008.
ACW599
15th Apr 2012, 13:57
>If proven excellence is a frippery so be it!<
Hmm. In my time UWAS and ULAS competed for the aerobatic Cooper Trophy. UWAS always won, naturally, and no other UAS dared to take us on ;)
It's nice to see that so many people remain fiercely proud of their UAS. From what I hear these days it sounds as though they're not what they were, sadly.
muppetofthenorth
15th Apr 2012, 19:06
It's nice to see that so many people remain fiercely proud of their UAS. From what I hear these days it sounds as though they're not what they were, sadly.
Well, what is?
I'm sure people who were in UAS' in the '40s would say that the UAS' of the '70s were a poor imitation of what they had... Twas ever thus.