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BBC News - Brompton Road Tube ghost station resurrection plans announced
Does this mean that ULAS no longer enjoys a town HQ?
Does this mean that ULAS no longer enjoys a town HQ?
Champagne anyone...?
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.
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.
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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.
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>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
My dear chap, UWAS is above such fripperies. Or were in my day anyway
Might be the best in Wales! Have they recently won any of the inter-squadron competition silverware?
>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.
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.
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.
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.
