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Custom House EL is also open air and sandwiched between two tunnels.
Haneef | 03.05.26 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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Crescent West is a small block of flats - I had cause to go there probably 30 years ago - the typeface is typically classic 1950s/60s MCM.
Rob Gullen | 03.05.26 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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Woolwich Dockyard. I am pretty sure they are tunnels not covered ways. What is more the platforms are only long enough for 11-car trains and, if things had gone to plan, 12-car trains would have called there using selective door operation meaning one carriage would have to be in a tunnel.
Farringdon would also be an arguable case (it has open air platforms but they are TfL-owned and depending on your definition of open air).
Pedantic of Purley | 03.05.26 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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Step free in one direction only. Half a loaf is definitely better than no bread. In addition to those who can only use a train if access is step free, there are plenty of mobility challenged people who can manage stairs when there is no alternative, but who find a slope much easier and faster.
Malcolm of Kent | 03.05.26 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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The Bromley borough boundary makes a nifty stepped angle to include Knockholt (Kent) station. It is sandwiched between two tunnels, but I think maybe only one is visible from the platforms.
Another fascinating read of everyday small facts and observations - thank you.
Waterhouse | 03.05.26 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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A1 was not the first registration mark. It was not even the first British registration mark. It was however the first eregistration mark issued by the London County Council.
(Most councils, incluyding London started issuing marks in December 1903, ahead of them becoming mandatory on 1st January 1904. deveral councils started in November, among them Somerset (Y1) Buckinghamshire (BH1) and Hastings (DY1)
timbo | 03.05.26 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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I don't think the driver on the 399 bus is being lazy. Historically, the driver would wind the blinds to show the route number and destination but now they seem to be motorised so even if the driver noticed that the number was wrong, I'm not sure that they would be able to change it.
Steve Rochford | 03.05.26 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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Open air rail station between two sets of tunnels - like the Central Line platforms at Stratford, both platforms at Kings Cross to/from the widened lines were between tunnels. It must have been fantastic in the steam era (and pretty good in the Deltic one) to watch (and hear) the trains at Hadley Wood.
Tram - there is Hadley Wood 'the station' and Hadley Wood 'the woods', before the Piccadilly Line invented Cockfosters, the 29 terminated at Hadley Woods (with the 's') - Cock Inn, the early version of the 134, the 284A, terminated at Hadley Highstone (Two Brewers), Hadley Common is at the other end of Barnet High Street from the tram terminus by the church.
Didn't one of the engine drivers' Bill Hoole (not sure about the name) also live in Hadley Wood, says a lot about the UK at the time that someone who drove the engines he designed could afford to live there.
Still Anon | 03.05.26 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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Highgate High Level station site is between two sets of tunnels - but is disused...
Steve | 03.05.26 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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Stratford International - the platforms where the Javelin trains call - is between two tunnels. Although in a cutting, it is 'open air'.
Alan S | 03.05.26 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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When I was growing up in Winchester 50 years ago, an Austin Allegro with the number plate A8 could be seen most days in one of the council car parks. A humdrum Allegro is somehow much cooler than a blinged-up VW-Bentley.
Philip | 03.05.26 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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Who is Emma Bunton?
Artie | 03.05.26 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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An eclectic set of musings.
Cornish Cockney | 03.05.26 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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Not famous, but it was Irishman Charles Jack that was responsible for the first residential developments at Hadley Wood. He also pressed GNR to build the station. His only memorial is Jack's Lake on the golf course.
Artie - you and I could never be friends.
Frank F | 03.05.26 - 10:37 a.m. | #
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I've been there :)
Hell will freeze over before new houses are built here. That's why they are trying to shove them in on the shitty side of the borough instead.....
Auntie Doris | 03.05.26 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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The famous people from Hadley Wood list also included (probably still does) various Arsenal and Tottenham footballers. After one got robbed, the local paper helpfully showed a picture of the house - which might have been a factor in it being robbed again.
Matt | 03.05.26 - 11:20 a.m. | #
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You ask why they bother. The JWs stand around proselytising because something has unfortunately gone wrong between their ears.
keenreader | 03.05.26 - 12:45 p.m. | #
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The Ultimate London Walk looks cool but that blurb page is absolutely dripping with ChatGPT
alex s | 03.05.26 - 12:47 p.m. | #
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The Crescent West font looks like the one used by the BBC in the 1960's.
Peter B | 03.05.26 - 12:58 p.m. | #
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Sir Nigel is misspelt as Sir Nige at one point here.
dg writes: yes it is
Sophie | 03.05.26 - 1:04 p.m. | #
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The photo of the train at the top of the post looks like it's got a 2-third yellow front. It took me a while of looking at it to realise what the illusion was (that the white part is the cab's side).
RG | 03.05.26 - 2:02 p.m. | #
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Famous residents? King Arthur and his mates, if you buy into the urban myth that Camelot was actually here rather than somewhere in the West of England, a myth seemingly based on nothing more than the presence of a road by the name of Camlet Way.
MartinL | 03.05.26 - 5:04 p.m. | #
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The round trip on the 399 leaves enough time in an hour for a round trip on the 398, so every time the bus gets to High Barnet, the driver has to change the number at the front of the bus (and, theoretically at the back). Both routes end in a loop served in one direction only.
Eric | 03.05.26 - 5:08 p.m. | #
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Your Hadley Wood poster is from 1924.
Here's one from 1913.
The 14 Crescent Way sign appears to be from the '60s.
See section 2.6.8 here.
Bob Walker | 03.05.26 - 5:43 p.m. | #
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Well, my wife have caught the train from Letchworth to Hadley Wood and cycled back home along the Great North Way. Twice! So please keep the signs :)
Rob F | 03.05.26 - 5:44 p.m. | #
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There’s alternative information about the Great North Way here!
dg writes: that link's in the post
N Garnham | 03.05.26 - 6:00 p.m. | #
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JWs are Believers and Believers do the silliest things, of which standing around pointlessly for hours is one of the least silly.
William | 03.05.26 - 6:23 p.m. | #
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Dover Priory is sandwiched between two tunnels, although I don't believe it's on the top of a hill.
Chris | 03.05.26 - 6:26 p.m. | #
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"I wonder what proportion of Londoners have ever been to Hadley Wood?"
That is a statement, not a question.
Andrew | 03.05.26 - 6:30 p.m. | #
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The old Great North Way cycle route from Hadley Wood to Letchworth now forms part of Route 12 on WWCT (the successor to SUSTRAN).
Frank F | 03.05.26 - 6:33 p.m. | #
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There is one semi-famous financially sucessful "mattress actress" who disassociated herself from a JW upbringing to take a *very* different path, as per her published (by unbound) autobiography.
There are not many that leave the "fellowship", and fewer that could come to terms with their departure to be able to write with intelligence, clarity, and self knowledge.
Anon for a reason | 03.05.26 - 7:01 p.m. | #
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Re step free in one direction, I keep trying to get TfL to open the car park gate at Croxley station - all it would need is an Oyster reader and camera for short-ramped access to the London-bound platform. It could even be a magnetic lock, operated remotely by the station manager via call button, who if on meal break locks the foyer gates open anyway. For the other direction, wheelchair users could stay on the train to Watford and then return to Croxley on the up platform.
NickK | 03.05.26 - 8:31 p.m. | #
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alex s, London Walks have written their descriptions in that fashion for many, many years.
Michael T | 04.05.26 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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I cycled along the The Great North Way from Hadley Wood to Stevenage then back on the train to Palmers Green earlier this year and I saw other cyclists along the way doing the same (or at least part of the same)!
James A | 04.05.26 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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It is if you put a comma after 'wonder'.
John Rimmer | 04.05.26 - 5:13 p.m. | #
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The lettering or typeface may be Caslon Doric Italic or similar, maybe from around 1910. Can't find many examples online. Here's one. Looks like it could belong to a longer post here ... but then I don't see it there.
Roland | 04.05.26 - 7:15 p.m. | #
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Who is Artie?
Emma Bunton | 04.05.26 - 7:47 p.m. | #
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Tunbridge Wells beats them all by having a tunnel portal at each end of the platforms.
Gerry | 04.05.26 - 10:36 p.m. | #
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As a Hadley Woodian and regular station user, which of your musings would you like an answer to?
Jordan D | 05.05.26 - 12:17 a.m. | #
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14 crescent west looks very much like Old Gothic Bold Italic
Joachim | 05.05.26 - 7:38 p.m. | #
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If we interpret “anywhere else” as including Wales, then Bangor is a prime example of a magnificently betunnelled station.
Jan | 08.05.26 - 9:39 p.m. | #
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