On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Mizter T wrote:

On 11 Nov, 20:30, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message

ups.com...

[crossposted to uk.transport.london and uk.railway]

...... of the places where there have been significant rebuilds.
Instead of pokey ticket office windows (which used not to be open for
business that often anyway) there are now large all-seeing windows,
and a number of stations are having ticket gates installed (I
noticedbrand new ones at Acton Central just the other day).

I always think that is an improvement many older tube stations should
have...

Some LU stations at least will be listed I suppose.

Why is it that the Victorians deemed that railway booking office windows
were to be pokey little holes?

For defensive purposes. The lessons of Rorke's Drift had been learned.

The white vinyl sticker on the train can be seen he
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tompagenet/1970358860/

(Flickr's amazing/bizarre - someone always seems to have taken a photo
of the thing you want to look at and actually uploaded it and tagged it
- at least this often seems to be the case with regards to London
transport... er, 'things' !).

It's not that bizarre - i take pictures of interesting things and upload
them, and there are millions of other nerds like me, so why not?

tom

[1] Well, i think they're interesting:

http://flickr.com/photos/twic/

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