Northern Line, heading into the City, morning

If/when the line goes down and all passengers have to use busses, find the nearest bus stop. This will be the one with a gaggle of unhappy people at it, trying to squeeze their way into the next oncoming bus.

Then, walk AGAINST the flow of automobile traffic to find the next available bus stop BEFORE the one with the huge gathering of people.

This way one can get on a bus BEFORE the bus hits the stop nearest the tube station that has the impacted service.

Well worth the extra few minutes’ walk :o)

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East London, District line

Saturday morning

Bring a book, get on East Ham, get off Kew Gardens Long ride, but worth the ride.

One can see a most interesting spectrum of people.

This is the most diverse financial range of people on this route, from the poorest in London (Plaistow, Upton Park) to the touristy folks (Monument,Tower Hill,Embankment) to the most affluent (South/West Kengsinton, Kew Gardens)

And at Kew Gardens one can step off to see the Gardens themselves! Well worth the trip.

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East London, District/H&C line

Queue? What’s that? No such thing in East London.

Everyone gets on all at once, train, bus, shop entrance, doesn’t matter.

I never thought that 4 can enter a doorway all at once but mob rules here think otherwise :o)

I pity the fool who needs to get OFF at Upton Park heading into the City at 9 am, heh.

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East London, District/H&C line

Elbows and shoulders are great tools in the morning :o)

Doesn’t matter if one’s been standing in a spot for 10 mins, there are folks who like to “walk with the train” whilst it is slowing down to stop. These folks will step over one’s feet to push their way in front of one’s self.

Stand one’s ground, look the git in the eye, and get on anyways even if it means stepping on said git’s feetses.

Gentlemen are not rewarded in this part of town, heh.

East London. District/H&C line There’s always at least one goofball who leans waaaaayyyyy faaaarrr over the white line checking out to see where the train is.

Even if he/she can see the train, what difference does it make? …except to slow up the oncoming train, the conductor isn’t allowed to enter the station at more than 5 mph if he/she sees anyone on or over the white line.

I know this because the conductor gave us a beasting one morning after letting us on the train :o)

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I thought it was quite amusing that the first time I ever rode a mechanical bull was in a small village in England.

During a fancy dress birthday party where we were all dressed as cowboys or indians.

That was a really really fun night