The Tube

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The Tube

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Interesting photos, but the picture of busker Brian Hinton entertaining passengers on the tube in the 50's is to my mind not the tube but a Gresley buffet Car.
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Dave wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 12:56 am Interesting photos, but the picture of busker Brian Hinton entertaining passengers on the tube in the 50's is to my mind not the tube but a Gresley buffet Car.
Certainly gives the impression, especially the tubular chairs and sliding window vents, but why is the door at the end fitted with a simple bolt?
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65447, interesting that bolt, plus there is also a mortice lock below it and not a budget lock as you would expect.
Still it does have LNER style coat hooks, off centre door, LNER style door handle with bars, centre ceiling vent and light fitting
and a table with 2 + 1 side by side seating which as far as I know is very unusual for a tube car.
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I concur. This SSL image confirms those details: https://www.ssplprints.com/image/84968/ ... hown-after

Could it possibly be in an outer Metropolitan service or in a working on the joint line with the GC?

ISTR that the Metropolitan Railway ran Pullman Cars in its Aylesbury workings until WW2. Could an LNER Buffet have been a substitute?
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65447.
Of course, thats a very likely scenario, I never connected the two, too far south for me.
I was just thinking the caption was wrong as it was not a tube car.
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