Robert Eves wrote:

(snip)

do you still get the itinerant noise-merchant in the carriages?

I have only experienced this on one occasion in London (it's much more
common on the Paris Metro). You are more likely, in my experience, to
encounter beggars, sometimes a woman carrying a child, on tube trains,
though even these are uncommon.

--
John Ray, London UK.

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