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

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

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.

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!