A surprisingly green walk along a disused transport link in North London Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace, North London The stimulus for this walk came from attending a talk by Oliver Green, curator of the London Transport Museum, held at the Museum of London but one of a series of fascinating (and free!) public lectures [...]
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Unfinished business
Posted in london, walks, tagged abandoned station, alexandra palace, cranley gardens, crouch end, disused station, finsbury park, highgate, london, london underground, muswell hill, new works programme, northern heights, northern line, parkland walk, stroud green on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
History repeating itself.
Posted in stuff, tagged frank pick, london underground, metropolitan railway, posters, southern railway on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While internet-researching the (old, pre-nationalisation) Southern Railway for information on Bishopstone Beach station, I came across a site demonstrating that what I’m doing here is entirely unoriginal. Once I’d got over the mock indignation and Captain Scott-like disappointment of knowing that, not surprisingly, someone got there first (although I didn’t eat any ponies on the [...]
