Showing posts with label The Tube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Tube. Show all posts
Monday, June 06, 2022

The Met Comes Good

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 Here's something not seen that often. The RMT union has called a strike today and most of the stations in central London are shut. Ever...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Back To The Crush

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 I had to attend the funeral of a friend today. The ceremony was in West Norwood, a delightful cemetery amidst lushly planted grounds but of...
Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Back on the Met

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 I last took a London Underground train in the first week of March, 2020. The growing fears about the Covid epidemic convinced me to stay aw...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Once more the chugging of pistons ...

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Six years ago the Metropolitan Railway celebrated 150 years of operations. Steam trains hauling vintage carriages delighted our eyes. This ...
Monday, February 25, 2019

How Low Can You Get?

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Travellers wishing to take the scenic and rather relaxing Chiltern Line north of Harrow-on-the-Hill may sometimes stray up to the very end o...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

An Unexpected Destination

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Here's something I've never seen before in all my years travelling on the Metropolitan Line. There is a siding at Rayners Lane bu...
Monday, November 26, 2018

We Have Been Here Before

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Some things change and some same exactly as they were. Some fourteen years ago this very column was established with a principal aim of docu...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Tube English - 6 Serving

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Well, I never. I've been forced to resurrect a sequence from ten years ago, back in the days when I travelled daily on the Tube. I canno...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

Advice to Travellers: Don't!

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The cold blast is continuing. Red alerts (danger to life) have been issued for some parts of the country and snow is severely hampering trav...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

Snow on a Sunday

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Photo: Mrs. Commuter Here's something not seen in these parts for a long time. I've been trawling the archives and it was seven...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

The Met Throws A Wobbly

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The Metropolitan Line was not on good form today. Two weeks ago there was a long gap in the service into town, exactly matching the time I w...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Plan B fails

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I ceased real commuting some years ago but I regularly take the train from beautiful Ruislip to Finchley Road. Today I was nice and early fo...
Monday, August 29, 2016

The Posh Line

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Other rail lines lay on replacement bus services when things go wrong. Not our beloved Metropolitan. Spot of bother in the verdant countrysi...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Summer at last (2)

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In the good bad old days when I earned a living in central London, the onset of a bit of really hot weather was a mixed blessing. Nice to be...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The 10 Year Struggle is Over as Ruislip Manor joins the 21st Century

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Important historical background 10 years ago my home station, Ruislip Manor, had a refurbishment. On other stations electronic display boa...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

The end of the endless tube upgrade?

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Something rather bewildering to report from the commuter front. A poster at the station announced it first and now the calendar of planned e...
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Friday, July 18, 2014

Summer Lightning

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The English summer has arrived with a heatwave, the traditional English batting collapses in Test Matches and a furious thunderstorm that wo...
Monday, July 07, 2014

Le Tour visits Epping

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All quiet before the Sprint tears up here The Tour de France completed its third, triumphant, day in England today with the Cambridge to...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

A half-baked strike

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I was wrong when I wrote last week that the strike called by the RMT union would cripple the tube from Monday evening to Friday morning. Th...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Tube website "upgrade" - Will somone tell me what is going on?

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It used to be easy, using the London Underground website, to see what trains were due at any station, making it easy to plan your travel. Yo...