Ramblings of an ex-Ruislip Commuter

A look at life from a bloke who used to live in beautiful Ruislip on the fringe of London and who used to travel to work each day by train. But not any more. [I suppose this will have to do: Ed]

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Delays all round

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My normal journey home is on a Piccadilly line train from Barons Court to Ruislip Manor. In emergency I take a Central Line from Shepherd...

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Size and history

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Our Victorian forebears were small people. We know this because if you put two average sized men into two adjacent seats on a typical Underg...

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Health and Safety Insanity

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The papers reported that power failures brought some GNER trains to a halt during the recent heatwave. After two hours in the full force of ...

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Enduring the heatwave

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Walking home along Hammersmith Road last night the heat was really on. The sun, 5 hours past the zenith, was still intense and the air so wa...

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

A view from the bridge

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Sometimes, like last night, the Piccadilly train moving westbound out of South Harrow stops on the long embankment leading into Rayners Lane...

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