WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
I always shut car windows going through there, I can't imagine walking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdJoffQJdo -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to Low - 1999 - Secret Name |
WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
Basil Jet wrote:
I always shut car windows going through there, I can't imagine walking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdJoffQJdo Whew! |
WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
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). But that is from nigh on 60 years ago when one mainly breathed good healthy petrol fumes with, err, lead. -- Robin reply-to address is (intended to be) valid |
WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
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 |
WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
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). -- Ian ◎ |
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). Madame Tussauds -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to Grizzly Bear - 2007 - Friend |
WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
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. |
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). I'd put it at the end of the list, just in case... |
WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
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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! I've run through it; while I'd happily recommend doing it once, I woudn't recomend doing it twice. -- Mike Bristow |
WALKING through the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel
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. |
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! |
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