London's famous London

That is like clever and shit.

I know.

Haughty culturist

I said 'crabs in the Mersea mudflats', not the ones nesting in your pubes.

You have been watching me closely haven't you? :P

i'd have to go with the dog fights

That is like smug and shit.

I know.

lol cheers dude, little elvis is on here as well of www.dereliction.org however he is a bit quiet on the exploring side of things.

lol, you little whore, you always manage to get our photography in somewhere ;)

the London sewer/storm drain network is amazing. a city under a city.

In Oz we have the variety.. but we also have decent ingredients.
London = epic fresh food fail. London = epic fast food fail.

Fashion = what? I wear t-shirts jeans and cycle in lycra ffs.. what would I know of 'fashion'?

that's fashion of a fashion, how ever you fashion your ... um... fashion.

london fashions are pretty good, though it mostly seems to be about looking like a hick at the mo. :D

There's an interesting piece in today's Indy about secret WWII bomb-shelter tunnels for posh people...
The Kingsway Tunnels. Secret until just three years ago.

Where are they?

Holborn way. Stretch for miles... It's the place mentioned on the clubhouse thread...

I'm catching up on some forum reading.. been busy again. sigh

I wanna do a guided London Walk.. reckon they'd let me take my bike? :)

On a similar theme; you may find these of interest:
http://underground-history.co.uk/front.php

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/index.php

there's one very interesting underground railway in london that the public don't know of is the Post Office Underground Railway (Mail Rail) that run from Paddington to Whitechapel;

It opened in 1927, but closed down recently in 2002 due to making a loss.

Just before closing, the line was carrying 30,000 mailbags per day, with each of the 50 trains taking 26 minutes to cover the seven miles, stopping for a minute at each station. Each train would be loaded with 84 bags of letters and parcels, and would run at speeds of up to 40mph except for in the stations, where the reduced voltage applied to the rails decreased the top speed to 7mph.

(that's the first stock of the Mail Rail)

I thought some of you would like to learn this interesting snibbit, you can see the photo after it closed down here.

Embed for those pics are blocked Ed, Try again.

Or you could just follow the link I posted and save Ed the hassle...

So now they're all transported by trucks and vans.. great.
How much does a train cost to run then? Electrickery must be expensive..

So now they're all transported by trucks and vans.. great.
How much does a train cost to run then? Electrickery must be expensive..

Just found some information;

*The line was renamed MailRail in 1987 when the entire stock was replaced with new trains in the classic Royal Mail livery. Ironically, this modernisation came around the same time as the advent of the Internet and email, and the line's days were already numbered. The line was already starting to lose money, and in 2002 Royal Mail announced that it was making a loss of £1.2million per day.
**
*Oh Platini, ta for the link of the 28dayslater forum, really useful.

I knew about the mail rail. I'd love to go on a tour of the facility.

Also if you install refcontrol for firefox then you can avoid the anti-hotlink image.

or... you could just know poeple I know lol, the Kingsway tunnels have been accessed and explored, and so has pretty much everything underground in London.

Like I said in the clubouse thread, they're not undiscovered and they weren't just found upon 3yrs ago - I went in them over 10yrs ago - Churchill used to use them

Have to say I was over in London just for 4 days and have to say I thought it was a great city. Can't put my finger on what exactly I liked about it but seemed friendlier, more cosmopolitan, good buzz about the whole place. Far more appreciation of art/architecture in comparison with Dublin (where I'm from). Have to say hats off to you trying to cycle round it...I thought the Dublin roads where unsafe but Christ nothing compared to the traffic and dangerous motorists and HGV's you guys put up with over there.

You clearly have to say 'have to say'.

Have to say I agree with what Platini has to say about the having to say 'have to say' issue.

Can't put my finger on what exactly I liked about it but seemed friendlier,

Are you sure you were in London?
:)

I have to say I agree with BMMF having to say he has to agree with what I had to say about the having to say 'have to say' issue.

You just had to say that, didn't you.

Have to say bagsy black & white label ninety-nine infinity.