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Many many years ago as a child I remember travelling on the london
underground and we reached this terminus station and was wondering if
anyone knew which station it was. From what I can remember it was an
island platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs heading
down but you could also see outside from the top of the stairs.

Any ideas where this may be?

Thanks


Aldgate?

Robin Mayes wrote:
wrote in message
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Many many years ago as a child I remember travelling on the london
underground and we reached this terminus station and was wondering if
anyone knew which station it was. From what I can remember it was an
island platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs heading
down but you could also see outside from the top of the stairs.

Any ideas where this may be?

Thanks


Aldgate?

Could it be a DLR station?

gw2486 wrote:
Robin Mayes wrote:
wrote in message
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Many many years ago as a child I remember travelling on the london
underground and we reached this terminus station and was wondering if
anyone knew which station it was. From what I can remember it was an
island platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs heading
down but you could also see outside from the top of the stairs.

Any ideas where this may be?

Thanks


Aldgate?

Could it be a DLR station?

Sounds like it's almost certainly Tower Gateway.

Picture at platform level at

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/dlr/stations/tower_gateway.shtml

and at street level at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway

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Alistair Bell writes

Sounds like it's almost certainly Tower Gateway.

If it was the DLR (despite the OP's use of "underground") then the
original DLR terminus at Island Gardens could be another contender,
since ten years ago it was an elevated terminus, with stairs to street
level and had an island platform.

--
Paul Terry

Robin Mayes wrote:
wrote in message
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Many many years ago as a child I remember travelling on the london
underground and we reached this terminus station and was wondering
if anyone knew which station it was. From what I can remember it
was an island platform and at the end of the platform was some
stairs heading down but you could also see outside from the top of
the stairs.

Any ideas where this may be?

Thanks


Aldgate?

But the stairs go up from the platform. The OP said "it was an island
platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs heading down",
which suggests that the stairs go down from the platform. Could dmacw
please clarify that this was what he meant?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:42:35 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Robin Mayes wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
Many many years ago as a child I remember travelling on the london
underground and we reached this terminus station and was wondering
if anyone knew which station it was. From what I can remember it
was an island platform and at the end of the platform was some
stairs heading down but you could also see outside from the top of
the stairs.

Any ideas where this may be?

Thanks


Aldgate?

But the stairs go up from the platform. The OP said "it was an island
platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs heading down",
which suggests that the stairs go down from the platform. Could dmacw
please clarify that this was what he meant?

I agree that the stairs issue needs resolving.

Having worked my way round the tube map I can't think of any candidates
that are traditional termini - i.e. at the end of a line and not some
intermediate turning point - where there are stairs down from the
platform. Everywhere is either level or has stais / escalators going up.

Leytonstone works after a fashion if you were on the westbound island
platform because the stairs do go down and you can see outside - just!
Not a terminal but trains did terminate there at times.

Loughton? - on a similar basis to that for Leytonstone?

--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

But the stairs go up from the platform. The OP said "it was an island
platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs heading down",
which suggests that the stairs go down from the platform.

That would be correct Richard J, the stairs went down from the
platform? I thought it was an underground station but maybe it was a
dlr station.

Thanks for all the replies everyone

On 18 Jul 2005 16:33:33 -0700, wrote:

But the stairs go up from the platform. The OP said "it was an island
platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs heading down",
which suggests that the stairs go down from the platform.

That would be correct Richard J, the stairs went down from the
platform? I thought it was an underground station but maybe it was a
dlr station.

If DLR is included then the obvious candidates are Tower Gateway and the
old terminus at Island Gardens where there are / were steps down from
the platforms at termini and you could see the street below.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:16:28 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

On 18 Jul 2005 16:33:33 -0700, wrote:

But the stairs go up from the platform. The OP said "it was an island
platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs heading down",
which suggests that the stairs go down from the platform.

That would be correct Richard J, the stairs went down from the
platform? I thought it was an underground station but maybe it was a
dlr station.

If DLR is included then the obvious candidates are Tower Gateway and the
old terminus at Island Gardens where there are / were steps down from
the platforms at termini and you could see the street below.

"Many many years ago" appears to exclude the DLR as an option.

--
James Farrar

September's coming soon

James Farrar wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:16:28 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

On 18 Jul 2005 16:33:33 -0700, wrote:

But the stairs go up from the platform. The OP said "it was an
island platform and at the end of the platform was some stairs
heading down", which suggests that the stairs go down from the
platform.

That would be correct Richard J, the stairs went down from the
platform? I thought it was an underground station but maybe it was a
dlr station.

If DLR is included then the obvious candidates are Tower Gateway and
the old terminus at Island Gardens where there are / were steps down
from
the platforms at termini and you could see the street below.

"Many many years ago" appears to exclude the DLR as an option.

I also took "many many years ago" to mean several decades. However the OP
has since said it was about one.