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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 |
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