Re: Lords Cricket Ground disused tunnel

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Mizter T wrote:

> On 17 Apr, 15:20, Tom Anderson <t...@urchin.earth.li> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Mizter T wrote:
>
>>> On 17 Apr, 14:07, "John Rowland"
>>> <jo...@journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tom Anderson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think this not insubstantial - there are six bus routes serving
>>>>> Finchley Road, i believe.
>>>>
>>>> They also serve Swiss Cottage, which has disused Met platforms, and
>>>> entrances at northbound and southbound bus stops.
>>>
>>> So?
>>
>> Maybe the point is that you could transfer the Met from Finchley Road to
>> West Hampstead, and also reopen the Met platforms at Swiss Cottage, and
>> that would keep everyone happy.
>>
>> Except people heading to stations south of Swiss Cottage or north of West
>> Hampstead.
>>
>> You could probably link Swiss Cottage up with South Hampstead station on
>> the WCML, too; if/when that gets assimilated into the NLL
>> post-Bakerloo-to-Watford, that would provide another useful link.
>
> Can South Hampstead be categorised as being on the WCML? It would 
> normally be described as being on the DC lines, which follow the WCML 
> alignment most of the way to Watford Jn, but is it the WCML?
>
> Likewise, could Hornsey be categorised as being on the ECML? Many
> would describe it as being on the Great Northern route, but is it the
> ECML?
>
> I'd normally think of the ECML and WCML as being routes to Leeds and
> Birmingham, but can they also be routes to the Swiss Cottage Odeon and
> to Bob Hoskins' old house in Hornsey?

I did pause to ponder this very question for a few moments before i wrote 
that. I don't really know what to call the route from Euston to Watford as 
a whole; the WCML could describe the fast pair, and perhaps the slows too, 
and the DC Line could describe the, er, DC line. But what do you call the 
whole thing?

I would usually apply Great Northern to the whole shebang coming out of 
King's Cross, so that the ECML, in London, is part of the GN. I'm not 
aware of an equivalent for the Euston line, though. What was it called 
originally? The LNWR?

>>>>> and is generally rather more of a high street than West Hampstead.
>>>>
>>>> I don't agree. Finchley Road is all poundstretchers and a strip club,
>>>> whereas West Hampstead is bars and restaurants. West Hampstead
>>>> certainly has more pedestrians than Finchley Rd at night, and possibly
>>>> in the day too.
>>>
>>> I disagree with you, I'm with Tom on this one. Finchley Road is more of
>>> a shopping high street (it's got a Woolworths) and it does have lots of
>>> pedestrians during the day - just because it's somewhat down at heel
>>> doesn't disqualify it. And the o2 centre, with a large Sainsbury's, is
>>> always pretty busy.
>>>
>>> Yes, West End Road has more people who're out and about on it at night,
>>> but that doesn't mean it's more of a high street.
>>
>> Basically, what we're saying is that we like strip clubs.
>
> And public transport should provide for both work and pleasure...

Quite so. The poles on tube trains, for example, could put to much better 
use.

tom

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