Kingsway Tramway
 

The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct - 8th
Nov. See http://measure.org.uk/measurenews.html for details on how to
book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look at as well.

Peter Smyth

Kingsway Tramway
 

On 29 Sep, 18:03, "Peter Smyth" wrote:
The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct - 8th
Nov. Seehttp://measure.org.uk/measurenews.htmlfor details on how to
book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look at as well.

Peter Smyth

Thanks for this

I have been wanting to see this for ages

First time missed cause I had to work
Last time Open House a few years ago booked out

Cheers

Phil

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On Oct 1, 8:33*am, wrote:
On 29 Sep, 18:03, "Peter Smyth" wrote:

The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct - 8th
Nov. Seehttp://measure.org.uk/measurenews.htmlfordetails on how to
book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look at as well.

Peter Smyth

Thanks for this

I have been wanting to see this for ages

First time missed cause I had to work
Last time Open House a few years ago booked out

Cheers

Phil

Would you be able to do what everyone who posts here actually wants to
do, or would you be restricted to standing an looking at the guy's
artwork?

Neill

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On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Neill wrote:

On Oct 1, 8:33*am, wrote:
On 29 Sep, 18:03, "Peter Smyth" wrote:

The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct - 8th
Nov. Seehttp://measure.org.uk/measurenews.htmlfordetails on how to
book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look at as well.

Thanks for this

I have been wanting to see this for ages

First time missed cause I had to work
Last time Open House a few years ago booked out

Would you be able to do what everyone who posts here actually wants to
do

....

Run up and down making ghostly tram noises?

tom

--
Most people lose their talent at puberty. I lost mine in my early
twenties. I began to think of children not as immature adults, but of
adults as atrophied children. -- Keith Johnstone

Kingsway Tramway
 

The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct - 8th
Nov. Seehttp://measure.org.uk/measurenews.htmlfor details on how to
book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look at as well.

Do they want money for that? (says me, who just booked two tickets)

Kingsway Tramway
 

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Neill wrote:

On Oct 1, 8:33 am, wrote:
On 29 Sep, 18:03, "Peter Smyth" wrote:

The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct -
8th Nov. Seehttp://measure.org.uk/measurenews.htmlfordetails on
how to book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look
at as well.

Thanks for this

I have been wanting to see this for ages

First time missed cause I had to work
Last time Open House a few years ago booked out

Would you be able to do what everyone who posts here actually wants
to do

Run up and down making ghostly tram noises?

Don't run - it's dangerous when carrying scissors.

Kingsway Tramway
 

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
Alex wrote:
The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct - 8th
Nov. Seehttp://measure.org.uk/measurenews.htmlfor details on how to
book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look at as well.

Do they want money for that? (says me, who just booked two tickets)

I went to one of those "art" exhibitions in the tunnels about 7 years ago.
Was very interesting. The tunnels that is. The art was the usual standard
issue pile of talentless garbage with self justifying pretentious BS written
on cards nearby trying to "explain" the pieces that you'd expect from
undergraduate art students (ie students who are too thick to do a degree that
actually involves thinking or learning anything).

B2003

Kingsway Tramway
 

I went to one of those "art" exhibitions in the tunnels about 7 years ago.
Was very interesting. The tunnels that is. The art was the usual standard
issue pile of talentless garbage with self justifying pretentious BS written
on cards nearby trying to "explain" the pieces that you'd expect from
undergraduate art students (ie students who are too thick to do a degree that
actually involves thinking or learning anything).

I suspect that vast majority of people will be there not for the
"art". Heck, I'm quite ready to pretend that I'm looking at the
strings just to get there!

Kingsway Tramway
 

In message , writes
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
Alex wrote:
The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct - 8th
Nov. Seehttp://measure.org.uk/measurenews.htmlfor details on how to
book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look at as well.

Do they want money for that? (says me, who just booked two tickets)

I went to one of those "art" exhibitions in the tunnels about 7 years ago.
Was very interesting. The tunnels that is. The art was the usual standard
issue pile of talentless garbage with self justifying pretentious BS written
on cards nearby trying to "explain" the pieces that you'd expect from
undergraduate art students (ie students who are too thick to do a degree that
actually involves thinking or learning anything).

We wandered into the historic Bargate in Southampton earlier this year
"just to see the place" without realising that it was only open for one
of these art exhibitions which was much as you describe it.......only
worse! :-))
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Now blogging in "The World According to Ian Jelf" at
http://ianjelf.blogspot.com

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"Peter Smyth" wrote in message

The disused Kingsway Tramway will be open for tours from 8th Oct - 8th
Nov. See http://measure.org.uk/measurenews.html for details on how to
book. Apparently there will be some coloured string to look at as
well.

Thanks for the alert. I went this lunch time, and here's some of the
pics I took:
www.flickr.com/photos/recliner/sets/72157622549498612/detail

They've cleared the northern part of the tunnel for this installation,
with most of the stored material moved further south. The installation
is a bit south of the old Holborn station, and you can't go much beyond
it. It's much bigger than I expected, and makes good use of the tunnel
size. It has its own wooden tracks and doesn't make any use of the old
tram tracks.

There's also the remains of some of the props for the Escapist film,
including a Union Street Tube station sign (which has the wrong fonts --
I wonder if they weren't allowed to use the right one?). There's also
an old Tube map on Holborn station, dating perhaps from the early
post-war period?