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Ah yes, John Ruskin, who founded the Cambridge School of Art, now part of Anglia Ruskin University.
Oh, what was that? He actually founded the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford? And his only connection with the Cambridge School of Art was giving a speech there once? Best not tell the people at Anglia Ruskin University, now that they've gone ahead and named their institution after him.
Jim | Homepage | 05.12.12 - 2:30 a.m. | #
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Did you see the report at weekend about legislation to stop the Ghost services - no more KO to WT, etc.
Ken | 05.12.12 - 6:55 a.m. | #
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Many, many years ago I did a Sunday shift in the booking office at Brixton. It was especially opened as trains were terminating there that day due to engineering works. Working there felt like going back a hundred years in time. I particularly remember the pendulum clock on the wall. The amount of money banked wouldn't have paid for my wages for that shift.
I have also worked at Loughborough Junction. Again it was a very quiet station. The cash taken all week was insufficient to pay the local signalmen's wages so when the station manager went to the bank it wasn't to pay cash in - it was to take cash out.
It is all so very different now,
Pedantic of Purley | 05.12.12 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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So at say Barrington Road in east Brixton, halfway along this two mile gap, there is at worst a walk of one mile east or west to the next Overground station? And other stations closer at Brixton, Loughborough Junction and Herne Hill? The missed opportunity for proper interchanges is regrettable but this is hardly a transport desert. I'm sure there are many places with worse links.
Andrew | 05.12.12 - 9:55 a.m. | #
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@Andrew: The overground line is a direct link between Clapham Junction and Canada Water, these are places you can't get to easily from either Brixton (to Victoria) or Loughborough Junction (to Blackfriars). A station at Brixton would be a no brainer really, but I expect that the line is on the high viaduct. East Brixton isn't so useful, but Loughborough Junction would be a good interchange.
Sykobee | 05.12.12 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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I am fairly sure that Simon de Montfort, John Napier of Merchiston and I.K. Brunel didn't found the universities called after them, either.
Andrew | 05.12.12 - 12:59 p.m. | #
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That second Andrew was not this Andrew!
Anyway, TFL says it is 30 mins from Brixton to Canada Water via Victoria line and Jubilee, changing at Green Park, or Victoria to Stockwell Park, Northern to London Bridge, and then Jubilee.
And 19 minutes to Clapham Junction via Vauxhall Rail.
Not so good as a direct link, but not so bad, surely, and similar to the journey time from that other transport desert, King's Cross.
Loughborough Junction to Canada Water is about 40 minutes on a No 45 Bus to Southwark and then the Jubilee.
The official route from Loughborough Junction to Clapham Junction is a bit of a palaver.
Either way, I agree, an interchange at Loughborough Junction (and at Brixton, if possible) both sound like good ideas.
Andrew | 05.12.12 - 5:15 p.m. | #
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I for one was sorely disappointed that you didn't manage to devise a walk route that passed under every one of the Loughborough Junction bridges!
Lang Rabbie | 05.12.12 - 10:51 p.m. | #
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@Ken - where was this report.
The Kensington Olympia to Wandsworth Road trains will be ending this week with the formal closure of that stretch of line but there will be new ghost trains running to Battersea Park.
Whiff | 06.12.12 - 12:25 a.m. | #
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... and Clapham High Street to Clapham North is an OSI (Out-of-Station-Interchange) with a 20 minute allowance for through fares ...
Andrew-R | 06.12.12 - 12:48 a.m. | #
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The old Clapham High Street station is indeed a listed building - but the new Clapham High Street overground station contains none of the listed bit.
The old listed bit is now private flats (not great ones - funnily enough people complain the trains are a bit noisy - who'd have thought!), with a totally separate entrance. The new entrance to the station take you on to the platforms at a spot just to the east.
Geoff | 06.12.12 - 11:29 p.m. | #
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I'm sorry to doubt you, but you've said that you work, how can you possibly find time to do all the research, walking, visiting weird & wonderful places & then blogging about them on top? Makes me feel like such a slug, when I get home all I can manage is sofa. Do you want to fess up to a team of elves who do the legwork for you? Glad you do, always interesting and/or useful info, thanks.
Zoe Sellers | 10.12.12 - 9:32 p.m. | #
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No elves, guaranteed.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.12.12 - 6:51 a.m. | #
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