On 19/7/09 15:36, in article , "Basil Jet"
wrote:

Stephen Furley wrote:

I've been told, though I haven't been there since to try it, that not
only are the trains not checked, but riding round the City Hall loop
in the 6 train on the New York Subway by passengers; a situation not
unlike Kennington, but with the addition of the long disused, but
still largely intact station on he loop, which is why I want to do it.

What language is this? :-)

Sorry, I missed out a few words. What I intended to say was that not only
were the trains not checked, but it was permitted for passengers to travel
around the loop. In the past it wasn't permitted, but was sometimes done,
accidentally or otherwise. City Hall station is rather impressive, but I
don't know if the lights are normally left turned on.

As of a few months ago NEW York now has a second abandoned station on a very
tightly curved loop, South Ferry.

There are some pictures of City Hall station he

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?5:979

It was one of the original stations when the first section of the IRT open,
in 1904 I think it was. I was in New York, quite by chance, for the
centenary.