Transport – Rail

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...

My little ‘culture’ trek out this week, had a bit of a ‘train’ theme to it, as my travels took me not far from home, to a main-line terminus station that has been a ‘constant’ throughout my 60+ years on this planet. The topic for my ‘London Shoes’ website this week is….all about “Liverpool Street ...Read more...

  This weeks ‘culture’ blog for inclusion on my London Shoes website – had me slaughtering the old 60+Oyster-Free Travel Card, as the subject matter in question took me as far afield as Heathrow in the west, Kentish Town in the north and the Strand down in the south. The topic in question being – ...Read more...

        For my ‘culture’ gig for this week I didn’t have to roam too far from my home base, and the topic in question is completely different for the norm. It concerns an event that, as a kid, I was often made aware of – but I never took any great interest ...Read more...

  With all the recent media coverage concerning ‘Uber’ and its regulator ‘Transport for London’ (TfL) refusal to renew their operating licence in London , I thought that I would focus my ‘culture’ day out this week, on one particular aspect of one of the most iconic and globally recognised of London’s institutions…….the “Black Cab” ...Read more...

  This week’s ‘culture’ day out could potentially have me criticised as being a bit of a Geeky McGeekface from Geeksville – but in fact, the topic in question is interesting as it focuses on something that all Londoners, and anyone who has ever visited London, will all have seen and taken for granted, and ...Read more...

My ‘culture’ gig this week was a rather strange one, because (as Michael Caine would say) “Not a lot of people know that”……and it concerns London’s ‘Necropolis Railway’ also known as the ‘Death Railway’!!! Halfway between Lower Marsh street and Lambeth North tube station is 121 Westminster Bridge Road. As a building, it’s a lot ...Read more...