please empty your brain below
No one wants to hear about old railways? I think you may have misunderstood a segment of your readership

Ian | 01.05.19 - 6:37 a.m. | #

35: I do like an oddly specific notice.

martin | 01.05.19 - 6:51 a.m. | #

I think that I preferred the pictures today.

Petras409 | 01.05.19 - 8:00 a.m. | #

2 - perhaps they were free-cycling.

3 - either officially or unofficially its likely they've been broken up into flats/sub-lets.

When does something become old - is it simply that it dates from before you were born, or more than a generation ago?

Still Anon | 01.05.19 - 8:22 a.m. | #

18 - Glad the pound shop wasn't moving

andy c | 01.05.19 - 8:34 a.m. | #

Thanks, DG, your commentary such as this has taught me to be a lot more observant on my walk to work each day. Makes even the most mundane Monday morning a joy when I can find just five Diamondesque comments to make.

TomH | 01.05.19 - 8:35 a.m. | #

11. The trimmed privet hedge for me one of the lasting memories of UK suburbia.

YDU | 01.05.19 - 8:51 a.m. | #

The section you actually walked is rather older than 40 years, having originally been opened as part of the Metropolitan Line in 1880 (Neasden to Wembley) and 1932 (Wembley to Stanmore).

The only new (as distinct from renamed) section in 1979 was south of Baker Street.

Timbo | 01.05.19 - 9:00 a.m. | #

Nobody wants to hear about old railways.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.05.19 - 9:05 a.m. | #

Were you to have made the journey by train you would have undoubtedly commented on a garden to the east of the line between Kingsbury and Wembley Park (in Uxendon Hill). In my nigh on twenty years of travelling the Jubilee line it has been full of rubbish and I was surprised to see it still the case with the recent felling of trackside trees. How the neighbours have tolerated it for so long I don't know; many of the other gardens are immaculately kept.

Tim | 01.05.19 - 10:34 a.m. | #

of course "Nobody wants to hear about old railways" .... sure, I'll believe you because you're always right

Caz | 01.05.19 - 10:45 a.m. | #

Must download and keep this.
Wonderful observation.

Jerym | 01.05.19 - 11:53 a.m. | #

Welcome to my corner of London.
Grim, innit! :/

Cornish Cockney | 01.05.19 - 1:38 p.m. | #

DG-you are usually so positive & uplifting.

oapski | 01.05.19 - 3:14 p.m. | #

Stanmore and Cockfosters stations were built at the same time with a similar site plan (railway well below the road level) but they are quite different.

Sprout Eater | 01.05.19 - 5:55 p.m. | #

Stanmore resembles Watford and Croxley, as every true train geek surely knows.

bimto | 01.05.19 - 7:15 p.m. | #

Stopped round Wembley Way yesterday evening. And I found it perfectly alright. But then I'm fine with urban commercial takeovers so what do I know.

EonLeader | 02.05.19 - 8:45 a.m. | #











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