In the heart of Manchester, this Premier Inn is a 2-minute walk from Piccadilly train station and the bars of Canal Street. The hotel...... more

In the heart of Manchester, this Premier Inn is a 2-minute walk from Piccadilly train station and the bars of Canal Street. The hotel has a 24-hour front desk, modern rooms and a Thyme Restaurant.

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Situated 120 feet from Manchesters Piccadilly Train Station, this stylish hotel boasts an award-winning restaurant, a fitness suite and...... more

Situated 120 feet from Manchesters Piccadilly Train Station, this stylish hotel boasts an award-winning restaurant, a fitness suite and air-conditioned rooms with free Wi-Fi and iMac computers.

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Offering modern rooms and free parking, this hotel is within 10 minutes drive of both Manchester United and Manchester City football clubs. It is also just a...... more

Offering modern rooms and free parking, this hotel is within 10 minutes drive of both Manchester United and Manchester City football clubs. It is also just a mile away from Piccadilly train station.

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Driver's Eye View: Rayners Lane to Cockfosters, Acton Town to Heathrow Narrated by Rob Curling Because the Uxbridge branch is covered by our Metropolitan Main...... more

Driver's Eye View: Rayners Lane to Cockfosters, Acton Town to Heathrow Narrated by Rob Curling Because the Uxbridge branch is covered by our Metropolitan Main Line production, this Piccadilly Driver's eye view begins at Rayners Lane - in the reversing siding. Our 1973 stock train, recently refurbished to look like new, takes you right through the centre of the capital and out into the North London suburbs. Emerging from tunnel at Arnos Grove our train continues to Cockfosters in Hertfordshire. The section between ActonTown and Hammersmith is unique in being the only tube line to feature express running - leaving the parallel District line to provide the stopping service... We then go back to Acton Town and join another 1973 stock train for a drivers's eye view of the Heathrow Airport branch. This line, much of which was built by the District Railway, has another unique feature for a tube line, a quaduple track section from Acton Town to Northfields. As well as seeing four closed stations from the driver's cab we also pay a visit to Aldwych, the terminus of the short branch which ran from Holborn but closed in 1994. If you ever wondered about the chequered history of this anacronistic branch, the historical and contemporary narrative will explain all. Running time - 105 minutes DVD only

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This DVD tells the story of the Piccadilly Line from its opening in 1906 up to the present day. Fascinating archive film, kindly supplied by London's...... more

This DVD tells the story of the Piccadilly Line from its opening in 1906 up to the present day. Fascinating archive film, kindly supplied by London's Transport Museum, shows Gate Stock in operation and the building of the 1930s extensions to Cockfosters, Northfields and South Harrow. A cab ride on a District Line train between West Kensington and Northfields shows the rebuilding of Hammersmith and Chiswick Park stations in the early 1930s, and Northfields depot is shown under construction. The period when the line was operated by 1938 and 1959 tube stock is covered, including operation on the Heathrow extension. The last day of the Aldwych branch is featured, including a cab ride and tours with Starlight Express and 1959 stock Heritage Train. The United Airlines advertising train and refurbishment of the 1973 stock are covered. The second part of the DVD is devoted to a detailed look at the operation of the line today, including trains, track layouts and station architecture.

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In central Manchester, Atrium by BridgeStreet offer stylish 3-star apartments with spacious living/dining areas. Manchesters Piccadilly and Oxford Road...... more

In central Manchester, Atrium by BridgeStreet offer stylish 3-star apartments with spacious living/dining areas. Manchesters Piccadilly and Oxford Road Train Stations are 5 minutes' walk away.

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Like Online's other titles about London Underground, this recording doesn't have talking heads or boring featureless cab-rides in tunnels. Using film taken by...... more

Like Online's other titles about London Underground, this recording doesn't have talking heads or boring featureless cab-rides in tunnels. Using film taken by competent Underground enthusiasts, it shows many lines and stations in the mid-1950s onwards. It's a riot of red trains, both tube cars and surface line stock. Starting at Farringdon - esteemed tour train with L44 passes - and Met loco number 16 follows it up to take over at New Cross Gate. Moving to Baker Street, a general study of electric trains running from there. 'T' stock appears at several stations, 'O', 'P' and 'F' stock trains are seen passing. A visit to Neasden features 'E' class, L46, L44 - L53, also the new Pannier tanks. A trip to Stanmore reveals the practice of including 'standard stock', used as trailers with 1938 tube cars. At Northwood Hills, steam trains for Marylebone still hurry by, mixed in with new DMU's. The well known steam to electric changeover is seen once again at Rickmansworth. Chesham saw its last steam train and 'T' stock appears. The Aylesbury LT service is briefly featured and the tip workings to Croxley is filmed. Amongst the red trains at Acton Town can be seen the gleaming aluminium 1956 stock on demonstration runs. Also at Acton Town, the quaint single car shuttle to South Acton is seen in detail, the red Q23 car contrasting with the new style trains. Other trains pass on the nearby North London line. 'Standard stock' on the Piccadilly line is next prior to a visit to the East London line, various Underground trains of all types are seen through the damp, gloomy stations and tunnels, back in the 1950s and 60s. Oerlikon sets of the LNWR share tracks with jointly-owned tube stock near Harrow and Wealdstone, filmed in the late 1920s. We finish our coverage at Ongar, however a more detailed review of the Ongar branch can be seen in another DVD in this series, Lost Lines Around London.

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Monopoly moves from the streets of London to the London Underground! It was dark blue for Mayfair and red for the Strand. But now, it is dark blue for the...... more

Monopoly moves from the streets of London to the London Underground! It was dark blue for Mayfair and red for the Strand. But now, it is dark blue for the Piccadilly Line and red for the Central Line. Underground Monopoly cleverly matches the classic coloured property squares to the stations and line colours of the world famous Tube map, offering you a great opportunity to navigate your way around London building your property empire as you collect Underground stations. London Underground is the most famous subway system in the world and it is also the oldest, first opening in 1863, when a service ran from Paddington to Farringdon. The first trains ran on steam, and it would be another twenty-seven years before the world's first electric train ran on the City and South London Railway, which now forms part of the Northern line. Today there are more than 3 million people who use the London Underground every weekday.Roll the dice to begin your property building empire with this London Underground edition of the classic game.Warning: Suitable from 8 years.

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Framed 16 x12 Print, Black Grain Bevel with White Mount. showing 150 Years of the London Underground. Passengers wait for a tube-train on a platform at...... more

Framed 16 x12 Print, Black Grain Bevel with White Mount. showing 150 Years of the London Underground. Passengers wait for a tube-train on a platform at Piccadilly Circus underground station. Chosen by PA Photos. 41x30cm print in 51x41cm frame with mount individually cut to size. Wood Grain effect Artcore molding. Mount board card with high quality facing papers, core board and backing paper. Hardboard back stapled in with hanger. This item

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Driver's Eye View: Hammersmith to Whitechapel, Whitechapel to Ealing Broadway Narrated by Rob Curling Our journey begins aboard a "C" stock train at...... more

Driver's Eye View: Hammersmith to Whitechapel, Whitechapel to Ealing Broadway Narrated by Rob Curling Our journey begins aboard a "C" stock train at Hammersmith "Met" station. For the first few miles the line is elevated on brick arch viaducts. At Westbourne Park we "fly under" the Great Western main line into Paddington. Here we enter the tunnel section of the first passenger-carrying underground railway in the world - Paddington to Farringdon! At Whitechapel, having traversed the northern part of the Circle Line, we transfer to a "D" stock District Line train for the return trip along the southern portion of the Circle. As the Circle branches off we continue through Earls Court alongside the Piccadilly line tracks to eventually end up at Ealing Broadway. Filmed in 1989. Running time - 85 minutes DVD only

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Framed 16 x12 Print, Black Grain Bevel with White Mount. showing 150 Years of the London Underground. Passengers wait for a tube-train on a platform at...... more

Framed 16 x12 Print, Black Grain Bevel with White Mount. showing 150 Years of the London Underground. Passengers wait for a tube-train on a platform at Piccadilly Circus underground station. Chosen by PA Photos. 41x30cm print in 51x41cm frame with mount individually cut to size. Wood Grain effect Artcore molding. Mount board card with high quality facing papers, core board and backing paper. Hardboard back stapled in with hanger. This item

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Section 1: St Pancras - Luton Airport We see an arrival and a number of departures from St Pancras Station. Every suburban station is then...... more

Section 1: St Pancras - Luton Airport We see an arrival and a number of departures from St Pancras Station. Every suburban station is then visited to watch the services run through, finishing with the newly completed Luton Airport Parkway. Section 2: Luton - Bedford Luton Station sees the stopping services, before we continue with the views at each station to Bedford, where changes at the station are seen over time. Section 3: Wellingborough - Kettering - Market Harborough Each of these three stations is visited and fast and stopping services are seen in a number of liveries. Section 4: Leicester Station The busy hub is visited on a number of occasions. We see many services arrive and depart and on one day three HST sets are seen in service in three platforms. Section 5: Leicester - Nottingham After departing Leicester, services are seen passing through Syston and Barrow-upon-Soar. At Loughborough both through and stopping services are viewed. At the recently opened East Midlands Parkway we see a stopper in each direction. After passing service at Attenborough our train arrives at Nottingham to then depart south again. Section 6: Derby - Sheffield - Manchester Piccadilly We visit Derby to see services. Chesterfield is our next calling point before terminating at Sheffield. Now returning to Dore, we travel along the Hope Valley, seeing services pass through a number of stations en route. Hazel Grove and Woodsmoor are seen and stops are made at Stockport. At Manchester Piccadilly an arrival and departure are seen.

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Double disc edition: Two programmes, two DVDs. Disc 1: District Line - Past (50 Minutes) This traces the history of the line from its opening in 1868, through...... more

Double disc edition: Two programmes, two DVDs. Disc 1: District Line - Past (50 Minutes) This traces the history of the line from its opening in 1868, through to electrification in the early part of the 20th century, and up to the present day. An archive film, taken in 1930, gives us a cab ride from West Kensington to Acton Town, and beyond, at the time when extra tracks were being laid for the Piccadilly Line extension. We see early electric rolling stock in use, most with American style clerestory roofs. Later we see Q stock, R stock, and CO/CP stock in service. There is film of the short South Acton branch that closed in 1959. Other items included are the final tours with the CO/CP and R stocks, and "Steam on the District" in 1993, using pannier tank L99, backed up with electric locomotive "Sarah Siddons". Disc 2: District Line - Present (100 Minutes) The second disc deals with the District Line today. It is 40 miles long, and serves 60 stations, carrying a total of 600,000 passengers every weekday. We start with the Edgware Road to Wimbledon service, which is operated with C stock. Then we view the Olympia, Richmond, and Ealing branches, which are operated by a fleet of 75 D stock trains. Finally, we follow the line from Upminster, through central London, to Earls Court, the hub of the line. The architecture of the stations on route is extensively featured, and an interesting variety of National Rail rolling stock is shown where the two interconnect.

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This double album covers railway activity on the West Coast Main Line and some of its connecting services over a period of more than 30 years. Disc One, which...... more

This double album covers railway activity on the West Coast Main Line and some of its connecting services over a period of more than 30 years. Disc One, which runs for 67 minutes, features the 1970s and 1980s, much of it filmed at principal stations and covering a wide variety of trains. Whilst electric locomotive haulage is much in evidence, many classes of diesel locos, DMUs, EMUs and freight are covered, and even tube trains on the Bakerloo Line which paralleled the main line between Queen's Park and Watford, using the DC tracks. Apart from stations on the main route, between Euston and Glasgow, such as Crewe, Preston and Carlisle, visits are made to Birmingham New Street, Wolverhampton, Chester, Liverpool and Manchester Piccadilly. A major feature shows intense activity at Glasgow Central in 1988, including several classes of EMU and DMU in Strathclyde orange livery. We also see glimpses of the APT prototypes in action. On Disc Two (52 minutes) the story continues further into the era of sectorisation and privatisation of British Rail during the 1990s, including the Virgin and Silverlink franchises. The highlights of a cab ride from Euston to Stafford are included. Finally, bringing the story up to date, we see the entry into service of the first of the class 334 EMUs in the Glasgow area, and the initial introduction of Pendolinos and Desiros to the West Coast route.

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Filmed on location on the Great Eastern from 1990 up to the 1994 Finale *Bonus Section in the North West from 1994 up to the 2000 Finale (16 minutes) Section...... more

Filmed on location on the Great Eastern from 1990 up to the 1994 Finale *Bonus Section in the North West from 1994 up to the 2000 Finale (16 minutes) Section 1: Thursday 20th January 1994 We first join the early morning service from Harwich Town to Liverpool St. The 309s are seen passing through Ilford and Stratford. In the evening returning to Liverpool St we travel out to Ipswich. After a break the set then returns to Colchester. Section 2: Friday 21st January (morning) This morning we start our journey at Clacton-on-Sea. At Thorpe-le-Soken we change trains to visit Walton-on-Naze. This becomes the next service to Liverpool St. All stations featured to Colchester. Section 3: Friday 21st January (afternoon) Stepping back to 1990 we depart Liverpool St. Returning to 1994 and Clacton we see a number of Class 309 sets stabled mid afternoon. Section 4: Friday 21st January (evening) The last evening arrives and photographs appear on the platform to watch the final services depart. We join the 18:22 service to Clacton. On arrival at Clacton we see crowds around the driver as the Greater Eastern period comes to a close. Bonus Section: (16 minutes) North West Finale 2000 We now travel to the Greater Manchester area and see the 309s back in action. Macclesfield, Crewe, Stockport and Cheadle Hulme feature. On the last day, Friday 26th May 2000, we see the final services departing Manchester Piccadilly with headboards.

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