London Banter - Visiting London & Newcastle: any suggested stations

I just want to thank everyone for their generosity and information
to prepare me for my visit England.

Someone asked what I do for NY Transit. I support their financial systems
primarily Accounts Receivable and Budget. Since I started working here
and travelling Singapore, Stockholm and Holland I have been enjoying
their trains & subways/underground/tubes and now since I'm seeing the "oldest"
tubes in the world I wanted to make it a special visit and see some of its
historic stations, etc.

I will surely upload photos for everyone to see once I get broken in back
home.

Thanks again

George Lewycky

george lewycky wrote:

Hi everyone

I'm visiting from the U.S. and I actually work
for the NY Transit Authority (NYC's Bus & Subways)

I would like to hear about any suggested stations, sites,
musuems that are of historical, technical, etc. significance!!

Does London have a musuem specifically about the Tube and its history??

Thanks alot

george lewycky

http://georgenet.net

Well, you might not have much time for country visits, but the area north
of Newcastle up to the Scottish border is one of the "least discovered"
bits of land in the country, both the coast north of Blythe and inland. Try
Alnwick (pronounced Anik) for a start. Castle as good as Leeds and Warwick
at about 20% of the price. (I'm guessing, not been there for a long time.)

You might like to visit Darlington too - one of railway's homes, and the
place where they are building the fist express passenger steam locomotives
for five decades. Between Newcastle and York.

Might be a bit difficult understanding the locals, though. And we call
round trip tickets "returns".
Kester