THE PINEAPPLE

I first learned about this pub from a book I read called Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier, set in the times of Philip Astley (1742–1814), a riding instructor, horse-trainer, and was acknowledged as the inventor of the modern day circus.

This pub is on the end corner of  the historical Hercules Road which is mostly well known for a former resident, the poet and visionary artist William Blake (1757–1827), who lived in a large house, number  13 Hercules Buildings, and his address was Mr. Blake Engraver, Hercules Buildings, Westminster Bridge

In 2015 when my family visited London I took my step son to visit The Pineapple  and had a nice lunch of fish and chips

 

Warship class diesel

British Railways' (BR) Type 4 Warship class diesel-hydraulic locomotives were introduced in 1958. It was apparent at that time that the largest centre of expertise on diesel-hydraulic locomotives was in West Germany. The Western Region of British Railways negotiated a licence with German manufacturers to scale down the German Federal Railway's "V200" design to suit the smaller loading gauge of the British network, and to allow British manufacturers to construct the new locomotives. The resultant design bears a close resemblance, both cosmetically, and in the engineering employed, to the original V200 design. Warship locomotives were divided into two batches: those built at BR's Swindon works were numbered in the series D800 to D832 and from D866 to D870, had a maximum tractive effort of 52,400 pounds-force (233,000 N) and eventually became British Rail Class 42. 33 others, D833–865, were constructed by the North British Locomotive Company and became British Rail Class 43. They were allocated to Bristol Bath Road, Plymouth Laira, Newton Abbot and Old Oak Common.

Each locomotive bore a name: for example D825 was Intrepid. All except D800 and D812 were named after Royal Navy vessels, thus the "Warship diesel" moniker used to refer to the class. D800 was named Sir Brian Robertson after the Chairman of the British Transport Commission at the time. D812 was planned to carry the name Despatch but was eventually named Royal Naval Reserve 1859–1959. All except these two bore a subtitle "Warship Class" in smaller letters underneath the main name. A nice touch was that throughout the production series examples (including the NBL-built D833–865) the names were allocated alphabetically. This caused some difficulty when Swindon was unexpectedly given an order for five more locomotives (which became D866–870); a shortage of Warship names beginning with Z required some names for the higher numbered NBL examples to be reallocated.

The original livery for all D800s was BR green with a light grey waistband and red bufferbeams. In the mid-1960s the WR decided upon maroon as its new house colour for mainline diesel locomotives, this going very much against standard schemes imposed by BR's overall management. In November 1966 the first D800 (D864) appeared in the new BR blue scheme with D864 carrying an experimental 'Burnt Umber' paint scheme around the lower skirting (an attempt to mask out brake dust). Half yellow nose ends appeared from January 1962 and eventually two Green, several Maroon and all Blue-liveried locomotives received full yellow ends. Green livery was eradicated by 1970 when D810 was repainted, this being the last green member of the class in service, although D800 had still carried the green livery when withdrawn in 1968. A handful of Maroon examples, including D809, D815 & D817 remained in traffic until 5 October 1971, and were finally withdrawn in this colour scheme, although by now wearing full yellow ends. Three of the early withdrawals, D801, D840 and D848, met their end in maroon with small yellow panels. After withdrawal of steam in 1968, the "D" prefix was dropped from locomotive running numbers when repaints occurred – so for example, D832 became just 832 as there was now no chance of it conflicting with a steam locomotive number.

 This train is my first attempt at weathering and I'm quite happy with it.
I have used water base arts paints so if I'm not happy with the result I can rub it off  this off any gloss plastic surface which also included plastic windows

 

Rolling stock Upgrades

London Transport uses a variety of rolling stock because London Underground lines have differing platform lengths, signaling systems and tunnel sizes. As part of our ongoing Tube improvements, new S-stock trains will be operating across the entire sub-surface network by the end of 2016.

Most units last around 40 years, although major refurbishment can prolong life by another 10-15 years and is much cheaper than buying a new train.

Trains currently refurbish in service

'D' stock

·         Runs on the District line (all sections except between Edgware Road and High Street Kensington)

·         Introduced in 1980

·         Seating is mostly longitudinal with a double pair of transverse seats in the centre of each car

·         280 seats per train

·         Total passenger capacity per train - 827

Upgrading the D class

I have began re-building my first Underground rolling stock

·         removing all the sliding door

·         cut new windows in the chasse

·         upgraded the engine

·         lower the cars

·         installed a new emergences   door to the front of the driver cab

Sanding and paint still to come

The deep-level tubes

The Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines are deep-level tubes, with smaller trains that run in two circular tunnels with a diameter of about 11 feet 8 inches (3.56 m), lined with cast-iron or precast concrete rings, which were bored using a tunnelling shield. It is these that were the tube lines, although since the 1950s the term "tube" has come to be used to refer to the whole London Underground system. Many of the central London deep-tube line stations, such as the Central and Piccadilly lines, are higher than the running lines to assist deceleration when arriving and acceleration when departing.^] The deep-tube lines generally have the exclusive use of a pair of tracks, except for the Piccadilly line, which shares track with the District line between Acton Town and North Ealing and with the Metropolitan line between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge, and the Bakerloo line, which shares track with London Overground services north of Queen's Park.

C Stock,

The C Stock, consisting of C69 stock, it was a class of rolling stock used on London Underground's Circle, Hammersmith & City and District line between 28 September 1970 and 29 June 2014. The class was maintained at Hammersmith Depot. The fleet's lifespan was just under 44 years.

The C69 stock was constructed using the then-standard form of a load-bearing aluminum under frame with a non-load-bearing body of riveted panels on aluminum framing. The high-density nature of the Circle line service meant that loading times were important; consequently all cars were fitted with four double sets of air-operated sliding doors per side. Seating was mainly transverse, and total seating capacity was 32 per car. The 106 DM cars (Nos 5501-5606) were each coupled to one of 106 T (Nos 6501-6606) forming semi-permanent two-car units, with an automatic coupler at each end. Three such units were then marshalled as six-car trains for normal service. The DM cars were slightly longer to accommodate the drivers' cabs, the saloon dimensions in all other respects being the same

This is my second attempt at rolling stock and this is deficiently any improvement from my  first. However if you don't try you will  never improve.

I now taken the D stock back to the yard for a total rebuild and already I'm happy with the improvement I'm doing.