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Old February 9th 16, 12:15 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On 2016\02\09 00:25, wrote:
On Tuesday, July 20, 1999 at 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Phil Clark wrote:
Isn't there an underground subsurface station somewhere that has a big
pipe with the Tyburn in it running above the platforms next to the
passenger footbridge? It might even be Baker Street BICBW


You are wrong. It's Sloan Square Station. The sewer pipe was damaged by a bomb in WW II, resulting in raw sewage flowing into the station.

And I have a suspicion that it's not the Ty Burn, but is actually the King's Scholars' Pond sewer ? BIMBW ;-)


It's the River Westbourne. I haven't heard about the wartime incident,
but I would imagine the "sewage" the pipe contained was run-off from the
streets rather than flushnuggets.