"Roland Perry" wrote

(Charing Cross Bakerloo is of course the former Trafalgar Square station.)

and Charing Cross Northern was formerly named Strand - it was to avoid
confusion that Strand Piccadilly was renamed Aldwych.

Peter

"CJB" wrote in message
...
A secret disused underground station that was used by thousands of
Londoners during the Blitz has been opened up for rare public viewing.

Visitors have been able to take a tour of the Aldwych Tube Station,
one of London's closed underground stations, which included a platform
which stopped operating in 1914.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Atonement.html

I can't understand why they don't open this sort of thing as a permanent
museum.

Or perhaps the subset of "mes" who think that it would be nice to visit is
too small

tim

On 03/12/2012 15:01, tim..... wrote:

"CJB" wrote in message
...
A secret disused underground station that was used by thousands of
Londoners during the Blitz has been opened up for rare public viewing.

Visitors have been able to take a tour of the Aldwych Tube Station,
one of London's closed underground stations, which included a platform
which stopped operating in 1914.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Atonement.html


I can't understand why they don't open this sort of thing as a permanent
museum.

Or perhaps the subset of "mes" who think that it would be nice to visit
is too small


I gather it is quite busy as a training and filming facility.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:30:45 +0000
wrote:
One bimbo who was reporting from the Farnborough Air show having found
the Roll Royce aero engine stand almost wet her knickers in her
anxiety to make a local link," these are made down the road at
Goodwood" or words to that effect. Reckon she had heard of Rolls
Royce cars there and added 2 and 2 and made 6.

Yeah , science or engineering the media are usually hopeless with unless
they've brought in an expert to do a specific show about it. On radio
I think James Whale gets my vote as one of the top ten ignoramuses. While
I agree with a lot of his political views he gets some so much basic stuff
arse about tit that it makes anything he says worthless. And when a caller
picks him up on it he usually can't handle it and cuts them off with some
lame putdown. Still entertaining though )

B2003

In the second picture the Station Closed signs partly obscure the letters "A
N"


S T R A N D - original name of station

On Dec 3, 2:51*pm, "Peter Masson"
wrote:
"Roland Perry" *wrote

(Charing Cross Bakerloo is of course the former Trafalgar Square station..)

and Charing Cross Northern was formerly named Strand - it was to avoid
confusion that Strand Piccadilly was renamed Aldwych.

Another factor behind it being Strand was that the name Charing Cross
was, at that time, already taken by the Circle/District/Northern/
Bakerloo station now known as Embankment.

Robin

In message
, at
08:05:29 on Mon, 3 Dec 2012, bob remarked:
(Charing Cross Bakerloo is of course the former Trafalgar Square station.)

and Charing Cross Northern was formerly named Strand - it was to avoid
confusion that Strand Piccadilly was renamed Aldwych.

Another factor behind it being Strand was that the name Charing Cross
was, at that time, already taken by the Circle/District/Northern/
Bakerloo station now known as Embankment.

Is there a Ley-line or something in that part of London that makes them
keep changing (rotating even) the station names?
--
Roland Perry

For those of us, not London based, and whose world view of London owes
mostly (or even only) to the scale afforded by the Tube map, what was
the extent of the inconvenience (if any) that was caused by the
station closing.

In other words, how close is the nearest alternative?

On 03/12/2012 17:40, allantracy wrote:

For those of us, not London based, and whose world view of London owes
mostly (or even only) to the scale afforded by the Tube map, what was
the extent of the inconvenience (if any) that was caused by the
station closing.

In other words, how close is the nearest alternative?

Temple on the District/Circle is only 200m away.

Covent Garden and Holborn on the Picadilly are no more than 700m away.
--
Phil Cook

wrote:

No reporter can be expected to know the intricacies of every subject
but a good one should have the skill to research and check. More and
more of the upcoming crop seem unable to do so.


I think the truth of the matter may be an over-reliance on searching
rather than researching and a gross under-reliance on checking.

Couple that with the increased ability of those who know (or know
where to find) the correct information to counter the article and the
facility to leave comments on media web sites, and that more or less
defines where we are.

There is also the aggravating factor of the media's fear of being sued
which encourages caution.