P4 New Street

[Jim S-W]

A few more piccies from today

Cheers Jim

 

[Jim S-W]

Hi All

The other day I stumbled across this


Pic © midgpee and used with permission. It was taken in 1987!

Actually this chap has uploaded loads of pictures of this sort of thing of various stations from the late 70's - the 90's and his Flickr account is well worth a look -

see http://www.flickr.com/photos/18578675@N02/...hoto_6872327821

Cheers

Jim

 

[Jim S-W]

I have been doing a bit more at platform level - its starting to get cluttered!

The esculators are the EFE ones.

Close up of one of the staircases

Cheers

Jim

 

[Phill Dyson]

Platform details look great Jim

 

[westernfan]

Wow

 

[Jordan]

Just put an 8 x 4 sheet of plywood over the top to block out the light, and it'll be New St to a tee, Jim..!!!

 

[westernfan]

Remember changing at New Street for the Coventry service en route to Warwick for a job interview back in the late 70s got on one of those electric trains ,Is it me or do they stop quicker ? Reason why I ask is when the train stopped a young lady who was also travelling up for the interview went flying along with her false teeth ,how I kept a straight face ! Ah memories

 

[lancer1027]

IMPRESSIVE !!!

 

[iploffy]

Jim are you doing all of the platforms as there look to be some missing

 

[Jim S-W]

Thanks guys

I had to loose 2 platforms as I couldn't reach the middle

Cheers

Jim

 

[Jordan]

Jim are you doing all of the platforms as there look to be some missing

I thought that but didn't like to ask. However it's done is very well planned though, because you can't tell from the shots of the approach tracks (well I can't anyway) - only by counting platforms.

 

[Jim S-W]

I hoped so Jordan - with the roof on it should be even less obvious. The platforms are also too narrow and the stuff on them is asymmetrical, being nearer the back side than the front.

Cheers

Jim

 

[Dikitriki]

Thanks guys

I had to loose 2 platforms as I couldn't reach the middle

Cheers

Jim

That must have been a tough decision given the utter fidelity in all other respects.

Richard

 

[iploffy]

Jim I understand the reason and as Jordan said I only noticed because I counted the platforms. It still does not detract from the absolutely superb job you are making of the iconic eyesore beast of a station

 

[Simon Dunkley]

I hoped so Jordan - with the roof on it should be even less obvious. The platforms are also too narrow and the stuff on them is asymmetrical, being nearer the back side than the front.

Confucius, he say, "Wise man knows when to compromise, and how to hide it."

(I hadn't noticed at all.)

 

[marsa69]

Confucius, he say, "Wise man knows when to compromise, and how to hide it."

(I hadn't noticed at all.)

I thought that was Dunkleycius that said that?

 

[Simon Dunkley]

Well, technically, I did, but I thought that if I attributed it to someone else, people might believe me...

 

[marsa69]

Well, technically, I did, but I thought that if I attributed it to someone else, people might believe me...

Good job it wasn't a politician you attributed it to then

 

[Simon Dunkley]

Good job it wasn't a politician you attributed it to then

Um, Confucius probably was a politician...

 

[Simon]

Confucius, he say, "Wise man knows when to compromise, and how to hide it."

(I hadn't noticed at all.)

Confucius's dad he said:

"Nobody likes a smart-arse son"

Unfortunately Mrs Confucius thereupon beat her husband around the head with wet kippers and banished him to his shed.

"Take no notice son, he's an idiot"

The rest, as they say, is history

Or philosophy, or something...