I'd like to park my.... no. no i wouldn't.

Is interested in infiltrating the London Underground

If you are in any way an old buildings/machinery/and especially London Transport geek, you should be reading that blog. It actually makes me nostalgic for London, which is not easy.

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Is interested in infiltrating the London Underground

I'm assuming these "tubes" were how they sent secret messages.

Hey, just like your mom!

Mind the Gap!

Insert Metro 2033 joke here.

They used those and similar as bomb shelters in WW2. My Grampy was British and was visiting with some friends at a pub. He left to go home and while on the way the air raid siren started up and he parked his bike and went and laid in a ditch. After it was over he went home. Next day he found out the shelter his friends had all hid in had took a direct hit, no survivors.
Lost most all of his buddies he grew up with in one shot. It still messed with him many decades later.
War is hell.

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Eagerly awaiting visitors.

Also eagerly awaiting visitors:

/hot

Surely, not Mornington Crescent, everyone knows you can't go directly there except on wednesdays after making a play at any other station that ends in a P. At least according to the Eastphalia convention of 1973.

TheMadDefenestrator: Surely, not Mornington Crescent, everyone knows you can't go directly there except on wednesdays after making a play at any other station that ends in a P. At least according to the Eastphalia convention of 1973.

But its only a five minute walk from mile end to algate east....surely you knew THAT

what people may see there tomorrow:

Hobbs End would be worth a visit......

Quatermass (new window)

not as dilapidated as tomb raider made it out to be, might have been another abandoned station, although i think it was Aldwych.

You are not a good person. You know that, right? Good people don't get up here.

Anyone up for a game of Mornington Crescent?

TheMadDefenestrator: Surely, not Mornington Crescent, everyone knows you can't go directly there except on wednesdays after making a play at any other station that ends in a P. At least according to the Eastphalia convention of 1973.

Sorry, I didn't see your post, any ruleset that involves Wings albums makes my eyes glaze over.

Otackle72: TheMadDefenestrator: Surely, not Mornington Crescent, everyone knows you can't go directly there except on wednesdays after making a play at any other station that ends in a P. At least according to the Eastphalia convention of 1973.

But its only a five minute walk from mile end to algate east....surely you knew THAT

Pfffft. Who plays Eastphalia convention any more? I warned them back in 1973: if you forbid reverse shunts through Bank, you lose a lose the whole Southern Gambit playbook. But did they listen?

Sounds like a cool tour to take, but also sounds like the tour guides were kinda dicks, shuffling people along and not giving them a chance to even take one picture - what's up with that?

czetie: Otackle72: TheMadDefenestrator: Surely, not Mornington Crescent, everyone knows you can't go directly there except on wednesdays after making a play at any other station that ends in a P. At least according to the Eastphalia convention of 1973.

But its only a five minute walk from mile end to algate east....surely you knew THAT

Pfffft. Who plays Eastphalia convention any more? I warned them back in 1973: if you forbid reverse shunts through Bank, you lose a lose the whole Southern Gambit playbook. But did they listen?

The Southern Gambit has been dead in the water since the Jubilee Line Extension and is useless if Marble Arch is played before Holborn, which any competent player would get in halfway through anyway.

Those guys should take more care

It looks like most stations on the Northern Line, except somewhat less grim.

What the hell is this... some sort of tube?

Filmed at Aldwych.

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: Sounds like a cool tour to take, but also sounds like the tour guides were kinda dicks, shuffling people along and not giving them a chance to even take one picture - what's up with that?

Not at all. I did this tour today and it was very interesting. Yes they keep you moving along, because they have several thousand people to accommodate, but have to split you up into groups of no more than 35 due to health & safety regs. However we were given several minutes to explore each location and any photos were fine as long as you weren't using an SLR.
Getting into the platform that's been closed since 1917 was particularly interesting, if a bit stuffy.