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Another cracking railway article DG. Why don't you just come out of the closet and admit to being a keen railway enthusiast?
I'm already looking forward to your 'East London Railway: a welcoming' sometime around mid-2010!
THC | 23.12.07 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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Me, a keen railway enthusiast? I think I was the only person trying to take a photograph of that tunnel without a train in it.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 23.12.07 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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Apparently it was graffiti at Shadwell tube station that inspired Paul Simon to write 'Poem on the Underground Wall'.
And 'Homeward Bound' was written at Widnes station - home being London at the time.
Sarah | Homepage | 23.12.07 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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Didn't the ELL close for 1-2 years quite recently as well, or did I imagine that? The locals must be thrilled.
Ian | 23.12.07 - 1:55 p.m. | #
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To avoid the inevitable collective of blokes with cameras, I went on my own little goodbye tour last Saturday. The Tunnel Tour was definitely worth a fiver.
I really couldn't be a trainspotter in real life though - the embarrassment of being stared at whilst trying to get pics of the murals at Shadwell on the way home was a bit too much for me.
Anyway, a fitting tribute, DG, thanks for capturing the memories of this tube line. Shadwell DLR has been impressively tarted up but it doesn't quite make up for losing a bona fide tube station.
s | 23.12.07 - 2:49 p.m. | #
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Infrastructure Enthusiast doesn't have quite the same ring.
Another Andrew | 23.12.07 - 4:10 p.m. | #
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Did they leave any of the original brickwork exposed when they concreted the tunnel over?
Oliver | 23.12.07 - 5:53 p.m. | #
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As 'not a rail enthusiast' I like the term infrastructure enthusiast as that was what I was photographing yesterday - and it isn't me in DG's pics.
Yes the line has been shut before as DG points out. By the time it re-opens in 2010 it will have spent a 3rd of its last 15 years shut.
And yes, a section of original brickwork was left, it's the part of the tunnel beneath the museum at Rotherhithe.
The ELL was shut when I moved here 10 years ago and it'll be shut when I move on next year. I remember an estate agent telling me that the 95-98 replacement bus service was actually better than the tube service it replaced (not that I believe a single word they say).
Anyway, farewell to a little line with a LOT of history.
Mark | 23.12.07 - 6:26 p.m. | #
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I'll miss it too - never got the chance for a last-day trip, but it did come in very handy when the Jubilee Line was buggered the other week. A very evocative little line.
Inspector Sands | Homepage | 23.12.07 - 6:35 p.m. | #
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The neighbouring Rotherhithe road tunnel opened 100 years ago on 12th June 1908. Pictures of the opening ceremony are here http://tinyurl.com/5slpra as well as pictures of the construction
Brad | 10.06.08 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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