"kenw" wrote in message
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Dear all

Maybe I'm not fully awake at 0700 on a Sunday – althoughI have already done
some work – but I've spent 15-20 fruitless minutes trying to find one
important detail of the upcoming steam runs:

Where's the best place to watch them.

Searching Usenet and Web have found information about the panel discussion,
about the loco and carriages, a dash of history, lots of useless junk and of
cours a dash of pedantry. And far be it from me as a former newspaper
subeditor, who would refer to the Games of the XXX Olympiad taking place in
several stadia, to decry the latter.

But right now I don't want to debate the social politics of a particular
newspaper, the culinary skills or otherwise of a Rubenesque woman whose
father was a politician, and far less do I want to amuse myself with the
debate of nomenclature of public transport systems.

What I DO want to do is know where to go with cameras – and when – to watch
what promises to be an interesting event. And if at least one such location
and time would be suitable for an old chap with limited mobility, so much
the better.

Given the wealth of information and knowledge propogated here, I look
forward to someone pointing me in the appropriate direction.

And BTW, for those who believe the Daily Mail to be a worthless publication,
today's [online] edition has an interesting lead


Thousands are hit by fare hikes... but not the rail minister who spends
£80,000 on a CHAUFFEUR for his 35-mile commute

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-commute.html


Many thanks

Kenw

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I've been wondering the same thing and come to the conclusion that there is
no easy answer. There are a few overbridges, particularly between Olympia
and Earls Court but they have high walls and I suspect they will have quite
a few adherents. Olympia itself is a possibility but how many others will
have the same idea? So we're left with the stations along the route and
they're a complete unknown because TfL have said nothing about how they plan
to control crowds. My preferred stations would be Baker St (nice period
atmosphere), High St Ken (some outdoor running at the south end of the
station and one other I won't name because I think it's where I might end
up!