To: vannrox
There are disused and bricked up underground stations and train stations all over London, as you might imagine. Some can still be reached. One that can't be is near Crystal Palace, and I itch to get in whenever I see the bricked up arches. Toward the end of its life (in Edwardian times, I think), it fell into disuse and great fat spiders would fall from the high ceilings and splat onto ladies' hats.
Though most urban areas have some disused train tunnels or underground sewer lines, if you know where to look.
21 posted on
12/30/2004 4:42:10 AM PST by
prion
(Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
To: prion
24 posted on
12/30/2004 5:49:24 AM PST by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: prion
great fat spiders There was a problem with great fat spiders at one of the Royal residences a couple years ago. Women screamed, strong men fainted, gardeners reached for their trowels.
27 posted on
12/30/2004 7:55:28 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: prion
So true! Just prior to WW1 a subway was built in Cincinnati. The war halted the aquisition of track and trains. After the war the inflation of the 20's required that an additional bond issue be sought to pay for completing the system. What with the simultaneous explosion of the automobile and suburban exodus they could never get that bond issue passed. My Sisters husband had done a college paper on the subway and had found ways to enter it. One evening at dusk he took me along with him, We climbed out the following morning before sunrise. What a grand folly! From a quite large main station about 8 blocks from the river downtown we walked about 6 or 7 miles to the vicinity of P&G's Ivorydale and back. There was no evidence that anyone ever goes down there . A bit of graffiti like you might find in a remote cave in the Ky hills but that was about all, except for an area chock full of military rations, blankets etc. apparently put there during the 40's or 50's as a potential bomb shelter.
To: prion
"There are disused and bricked up underground stations and train stations all over London, as you might imagine"
I just read a neat book on the underground city in Edinburgh, very interesting reading.
I'm also reading a book on the forgotten islands of New York City and about all the abandoned buildings on some of them.
Ed
33 posted on
12/30/2004 4:07:06 PM PST by
Sir_Ed
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