Within Living Memory

the pressure actually drops in the car as the air is forced to accelerate around it, down the sides, over the roof, and under the floor. The effect lasts a good way into the tunnel until everything equalises out. I'm sure there was a speed restriction at least part way down the ramp at Leyton in the days of 62TS, but I agree it was usually taken with gusto, great fun as a kid! I used to sit behind the J door bulkhead for maximum effect!

I remember a trip to London as a boy (I were dragged up, 'oop north). Must have been 1977 or 78, around or after the jubilee, as I remember buying a Corgi special of the state landau. My brother bought a tub of 'Slime'. Stayed in a hotel in Holborn and used the phone booths in the ticket hall at Aldwych/Strand to call my nan up to let her know we were all well. Heck, I even remember her phone number, and she's been dead 15 years! We did so much sight-seeing in that one week! Aldwych was the closest station to the hotel, and I recall descending into the depths in those amazing, oddly shaped, wooden panelled lifts. I think it may have been the first time I'd been in a lift where there were two sets of doors opposite each other, as I recall some confusion as to which way was out.

Walking into the station again during the WW2 open event a couple of years ago was like hitting a brick wall - it has barely changed one iota since I last stepped in there.

I have probably shared these before on here, but here goes:
The Bakerloo running to both Watford Junction and Stanmore
Wondering why as a pre-teenager why the Bakerloo only ran to Watford Junction during the peaks.
Marble Arch and Northolt reversers on the Central.
What would be known as the Jubilee Line originally christened as the Fleet Line, without realizing it would take over the Stanmore portion of the Bakerloo.
Uncoupling on the Metropolitan off-peak.
Metropolitan trains only running beyond Baker St in the peaks.
Semi-fast trains to/from Uxbridge.
When there was no uncoupling on the Met, trains being renumbered what they would be if uncoupling were in practice.
Thinking that you could go from either Hammersmith or Amersham to New Cross/New Cross Gate w/out changing trains.
Liverpool Street terminators on the peak Met service into the city (ex-Chesham or ex-Amersham).
Moorgate terminators on the Met peak City service.
An eight car Met, set number 45, terminating in platform 1 at Uxbridge between the peaks M-F.
Wooden next-train describers on the up platforms at Uxbridge-branch stations.
Thinking that some Bakerloo line trains ran onto the southbound Northern at Elephant & Castle.
A mix of red and silver on the Piccadilly.
Piccadilly service beyond Rayners Lane only during the peaks M-F and up until mid-afternoon on Saturdays.
Barons Court and Wood Green reversers on the Piccadilly.

Another East London Line memories of mine is regard to Wapping Station. The foreman's office was under the stairs on the southbound and my father spent much of his shift trying to make a radio work with wires attatched to pipes that went up to the surface. When a goods train came through from the Eastern Region to the Southern Region , the whole station shook. They stopped in the early sixties.

Foremen were not supposed to travel in the lift because the ticket collector had to not only start the lift but stop it at the correct landing mark. Most lifts used to stop automatically. If the ticket collector over shot the landing the lift would be stopped by safety devices and the foremen would then have to go to the machine room and handwind the lift to the correct landing position. Years later when I was a relief clerk I was taught the technique at Edgware Road Station as part of the training.

I remember the old Wapping station before the fire and the ticket office safe used to jut out into a side passage and thieves stole it. After the fire and the station was rebuilt staff could go on to the roof and look out over the river.

I think they also were at Wembley Park and Finchley Rd.

@norbiton flyer - I am alas, old enough to remember the '50s - my guesstimate about the short formations is that I saw them c1953-55, when I used to watch the activities at Northfields depot from a convenient piece of wasteland just east of Boston Manor Station. Also a good place to watch the comings and goings of L30/L31.

Station on Brick Lane seeing the link through to Liverpool Street (it was still there but no tracks when the old Shoreditch station was open until its closure) and wondered why it was located in a rather odd place. So even I have been to a station that no longer exists.

If the station was on the main line then it must be the old platforms of Bishopsgate (Low Level) Station.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishopsgate_(Low_Level)_railway_station

As I was brought up in Collier Row I didn't use the tube very much. Travel around London in my early teens was always by Red Rover ticket.

I remember Romford station having a list of fares to London Transport stations posted in the ticket hall in the early 60s. I spent ages trying to find 'Mill Hill (The Hale)' on the tube map!

I do remember going through Liverpool Street once for the Circle and seeing slam door coaches in the bay platform.

Somebody mentioned the smell. I remember one element being leather from the arm rests. I think the Bakerloo was the last with these.

Sorry, I meant you could see the tracks of the GEML from Shoreditch when it was open

Talking of clippies, cast your minds back to when bus journeys were real *journeys* and the 73 ran from Richmond to Stoke Newington on a Sunday. One night I was heading back from Roehampton to Euston but was running late for my train. I mentioned this to the conductor as I got on at Barnes (by Rosslyn Park on the Upper Richmond Road) and he banged on the window to his driver and told him I'd a train to catch.

I hung on for dear life: the driver made it all the way in only 14 minutes. He did actually stop once for about three seconds. I made my train ;-P

(Google maps tells me it is about 9½ miles)

ah,yes the wimpy bender!(a round frankfurter) wouldnt be allowed that name nowdays!1

Real journeys, yep Tottenham Garage to Richmond on the 73 and Tottenham Bruce Grove to Forest Hill on the 171, my father conducted on both those routes out of AR. I believe the 73 had a PVR of 100+ in those days, 1960s.

Nostalgia for an episode of "On the Buses?"

When the 37 went thru' to Richmond, the last trip from Richmond didn't hang about all the way to Clapham Common I can vouch for that ;)RTLs from SW happy days & nights