WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
 

Graham Harrison wrote:
On 28 Apr 2019 23:43:11 GMT, Marland
wrote:

Robin wrote:
On 28/04/2019 22:11, Basil Jet wrote:

I always shut car windows going through there, I can't imagine walking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdJoffQJdo


My recollection is that the footway through the Blackwall Tunnel was
narrower than Rotherhithe (and with sharper bends more fun with passing
buses and lorries).

I believe buses that ran through regularly had reinforced tyres that coped
better with hitting the kerbs.

GH


https://www.londonbuses.co.uk/_route...awn/082-1.html agrees with
you.


Ta, I was fortunate in a way that although for I time I lived in West
London and went back frequently
one friend of the family opted for a new council flat near Surrey Docks
Station and one of her neighbours was a bus driver who mentioned it .
I liked that flat and so did she, top floor of a tower block with excellent
views all around being brand new non of the maintenance and social problems
that affected them in later years , green trains to the west red ones
formed of F stock to the East.
Though I waited in vain to ever see a train from a line that branched off
the East London in front of the flats and disappear through a wasteland of
scrapyards and industrial dereliction and not far away the murky waters of
the Surrey Canal which somehow we ended up exploring on walks and we did a
couple of bus journeys in the area including the tunnels. I’m glad. I saw a
glimpse of that part of London before it changed so radically.

And now 60 years later I can travel over the line that branched off as it
has been rebuilt as part of the overground route to Clapham.

GH

WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
 

David Walters wrote:
On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 22:11:28 +0100, Basil Jet wrote:
I always shut car windows going through there, I can't imagine walking.

I cycled through once. Wouldn't recommend it.

Although perhaps if XR have a (somewhat unlikely) brainwave, there
might be a chance of a less asphixiant experience...

#Paul

WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
 

On 29/04/2019 11:32, Ian Clifton wrote:
Recliner writes:

Basil Jet wrote:

I always shut car windows going through there, I can't imagine walking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdJoffQJdo


Whew!


Actually, doing this is on my bucket list. It must be London’s worst
“tourist experience� (unless, that is, anyone knows better).

an afternoon in the house of Lords, great for insomniacs.....

--
Martin

replies to newsgroup only please.

WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
 

On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 21:35:29 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

Basil Jet wrote:

I always shut car windows going through there, I can't imagine walking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdJoffQJdo


Whew!

Cycled it once (on a Sunday morning). Never again!