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You're right that the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly "should" still have been running. However the Picc line west of Hyde Park Corner was aso closed because of the way it fits in with the District Line. It's complicated to explain further than that.
I'm currently sitting in the "virtual queue" for friends' priority booking at the Royal Opera House website... then I have to find a way through the traffic to a different sort of queue... bus to Vauxhall and then the 360 to Prince Consort Road methinks.
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« Reply #106 on: 15:01:27, 04-09-2007 » |
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It took ages to get on a number 9 bus, and eventually we walked one stop west to do so; but we jumped off with our fingers crossed at Green Park, walked straight onto a half-empty Jubilee Line train to North Greenwich, and were home in time for a beer before bed  Talking of transport in London, the strangest thing happened yesterday. As the Vienna Philharmonic walked onto the stage, who should sit on the leader's chair but my acquaintance Dave McCarthy, who during the day drives a black cab. OK, so he'd had a haircut, but it was definitely him. I didn't even know he played the fiddle! |
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« Reply #107 on: 16:23:46, 04-09-2007 » |
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Sign of the times, innit? World class fiddler player has to moonlight driving a cab.
Yer know, I 'ad that Arthur Clarke in me cab once.
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« Reply #108 on: 23:05:50, 06-09-2007 » |
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I 'ad that Richard Barrett in me cab once.
Well it weren't a cab, it was a Daihatsu Charade, and there was none of that Leitmotif malarkey, but I did have that Robert Hollingworth in me Charade once too.
I quite like the way that the Underground has been put together bit by bit and that there are all of these apparently superfluous or interchangeable stations. If you've ever played SimCity, it's quite easy to go around and demolish entire subway lines and re-organise them. I've always been rather glad they never did that to London.
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« Reply #109 on: 23:46:28, 06-09-2007 » |
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a lucrative but secluded street I know what they mean, but can a street really be described as 'lucrative'? |
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« Reply #110 on: 09:41:30, 07-09-2007 » |
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Opilec, fascinating history being Down Street station. Thanks for that. I went on the cyber `tour` and listened to a recording of air being sucked in and out of a lift shaft as a train passes through on a neighbouring line. Brrr. A seriously spooky sound.
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« Reply #111 on: 10:07:45, 07-09-2007 » |
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a lucrative but secluded street I know what they mean, but can a street really be described as 'lucrative'? Very much so t-i-n. Soho is absolutely packed with them! Baz |
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« Reply #112 on: 10:30:14, 07-09-2007 » |
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Being new to this interesting thread, somebody may already have mentioned this somewhere... The 'Bull and Bush' station has two points of interest: a) it was to be the deepest station on the entire Underground network (200 ft below street level), and b) it is the only disused station that was never in fact opened! Apparently the construction of the surface building ran into official planning problems, so it was never used as a station (although trains pass through it - passengers being unaware!). INFO HEREBaz |
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« Reply #113 on: 10:45:37, 07-09-2007 » |
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Being new to this interesting thread, somebody may already have mentioned this somewhere...
True, although they'd have to have done so on a different thread, if they were, as you suggest, new to this one! |
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« Reply #114 on: 10:49:41, 07-09-2007 » |
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Being new to this interesting thread, somebody may already have mentioned this somewhere...
True, although they'd have to have done so on a different thread, if they were, as you suggest, new to this one! Thanks - and entirely correct (as ever). Baz P.S. Enjoying the 'Pedantry thread' are you? |
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« Reply #115 on: 13:36:55, 10-09-2007 » |
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OK, which one is David McCarthy? Second from the right! (but I reckon it's a long time since anybody called him David rather than Dave  ) |
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« Reply #116 on: 22:25:32, 26-09-2007 » |
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Now here's a tube map I can relate to: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/rscmap1072.jpgTwo Manor Houses, both alike in dignity... |
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« Reply #117 on: 14:07:54, 27-09-2007 » |
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(Can any Member recognize the station?) |
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« Reply #118 on: 14:48:45, 27-09-2007 » |
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Finchley Road?
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« Reply #119 on: 18:35:44, 27-09-2007 » |
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Finchley Road?
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