Transport – Rail

For this week’s activity, my London Shoes took advantage of a glorious day of weather, and with my 60+Oyster-Free Travel Card in my hand, I travelled across the ‘Smoke’ to track down:- London’s ‘Most Used’ & ‘Least Used’ Stations – and this is the result >Roding Valley: London Underground’s quietest, least used tube station is ...Read more...

As with most of the topics covered-off by London Shoes, the subject matter is generally considerably historic in terms of its occurrence – however, although last week’s topic happened some 44 years ago, it is one of the rare occasions where I can clearly remember the incident, and the impact that it had on everyday ...Read more...

The topic for this week’s ‘London Shoes’ publication on its Website, FB & Twitter portals, is not about a building or a location – it’s simply all about a humble, ordinary Londoner, whose work has touched millions upon millions of people throughout the years and will most probably continue to do so for future generations. ...Read more...

Last week’s London Shoes blog was, (as they say on X-Factor, and other such tv progs) a “journey”. This particular trek out also had me sort of paying homage to the topic in question, on a particular anniversary of its existence. So – this week’s publication onto the London Shoes website-twitter feed & fb page ...Read more...

I have always been intrigued when reading stories about incidents where ‘lost’ music tapes of top recording artists, are discovered collecting dust in someone’s loft or attic at some obscure location. Well –“London Shoes” has had its own experience of this scenario this week, when a never published ‘lost’ blog was discovered whilst conducting a ...Read more...

2019 sees the 150th Birthday of London’s ‘District Line’ tube network – and “London Shoes” took this occasion as an opportunity to take a closer look at this particular underground line in celebration of its longevity, by looking back at its history and how it has evolved to the present day – and also ‘stopping ...Read more...

For the second ‘London Shoes’ escapade of 2019 – the ‘shoes’ took me ‘darn-sarf’ of the River Thames to the district with the strange named of “Vauxhall”. For this jaunt I had the pleasure of being accompanied by my old mate Les Bannell – who I first met way back in 1974, some 45 years ...Read more...

My posting onto the London Shoes website for last week’s quite exhausting jaunt out, focusses a subject matter that anyone living, working, passing through or just visiting London, will have ‘touched’ and experienced at some stage – and that is the “London Underground”. Now – as this is such a vast topic, I intend to ...Read more...

  Today, Epping Station is the last stop on the eastbound section of the TfL Central Line tube, but years ago there was a branch line that went on to North Weald-Blake Hall and then Ongar stations. Back in the early days of steam rail travel, the Great Eastern Railway operated a network of lines ...Read more...

  My little excursion out this week for publication on to the London Shoes website – was all about a place that I personally went to a couple of times, as a teenager in the early 1970’s – but my visits were nothing to do with what the building itself was originally designed for. My ...Read more...