| Re: "Rail bosses reveal radical revamp plan for Waterloo" - London Evening Standard |
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Group: uk.transport.london · Group Profile
Author: D7666D7666 Date: Jul 28, 2008 11:32
On Jul 28, 6:30 pm, "Peter Masson" privacy.net> wrote:
> Anyway, the spur would probably be haunted by the ghost of South Eastern
> Railway director Captain Warren, who was struck and killed by a train when
> he was walking on the spur.
I prefer the quote from HG Wells ''War Of The Worlds'':
< quote >
Everyone connected with the terminus seemed
ill-tempered.
About five o'clock the gathering crowd in the station was immensely
excited by the opening of the line of communication, which is almost
invariably closed, between the South-Eastern and the South-Western
stations, and the passage of carriage trucks bearing huge guns and
carriages crammed with soldiers. These were the guns that were
brought up from Woolwich and Chatham to cover Kingston. There was
an exchange of pleasantries: "You'll get eaten!" "We're the
beast-tamers!" and so forth. A little while after that a squad of
police came into the station and began to clear the public off the
platforms, and my brother went out into the street again.
< /quote >
Obviously the public must have been taking pictures.
--
Nick
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