Underground History Guest Book

Maeve Greer
30.10.2008 14:03
#111

Dear Hywel Williams

My reason for accessing your website was essentially to find a map of the London Underground. But... I find a most fascinating history of London Underground. It is wonderful to have knowledge refreshed with the details of the history of the London Underground which are on the website. My interest with the London Underground began way back in the 1970s when our family had several trips to London. It was safer and providing more fascination for the many interests of our family than other cities at that time. Being from Northern Ireland, and at that time still having the older locomotives with the coal fed engine on the rails, it was fascinating for us to travel underground and listen to the noise of the wheels on the rails. We did notice several of the older stations, and my parents, who were fascinated with trains, made a note of these. Our chief delight was to travel generally to the British Museum and be fascinated by the many items we saw there. But it made a wonderful change when we had the chance to view any transport museums. Much as I appreciate the speed of the transport of today, I rather miss the older trains, as there was something about them, which I enjoyed.

I was rather delighted to see Billy Connolly, on his World Tour of …… travelling on the London Underground and showing us the inner workings of the train stations and the various junctions underground which folk do not normally see, similarly Fred Dibnah programmes at times showed the old trains and the workings of pump stations. I thought it such as shame when the Post Office mail line was closed in the last few years, or maybe I am wrong about that. I now live in Edinburgh it is wonderful to be able to have the Transport Museum in Glasgow and the various museums in Edinburgh to remind us of times past.

The photographs are particularly clear and depending on how the photograph is taken some have an eerie light to them which adds to the atmosphere of the picture.

thank you for a fascinating website
Dear Hywel Williams

My reason for accessing your website was essentially to find a map of the London Underground. But... I find a most fascinating history of London Underground. It is wonderful to have knowledge refreshed with the details of the history of the London Underground which are on the website. My interest with the London Underground began way back in the 1970s when our family had several trips to London. It was safer and providing more fascination for the many interests of our family than other cities at that time. Being from Northern Ireland, and at that time still having the older locomotives with the coal fed engine on the rails, it was fascinating for us to travel underground and listen to the noise of the wheels on the rails. We did notice several of the older stations, and my parents, who were fascinated with trains, made a note of these. Our chief delight was to travel generally to the British Museum and be fascinated by the many items we saw there. But it made a wonderful change when we had the chance to view any transport museums. Much as I appreciate the speed of the transport of today, I rather miss the older trains, as there was something about them, which I enjoyed.

I was rather delighted to see Billy Connolly, on his World Tour of …… travelling on the London Underground and showing us the inner workings of the train stations and the various junctions underground which folk do not normally see, similarly Fred Dibnah programmes at times showed the old trains and the workings of pump stations. I thought it such as shame when the Post Office mail line was closed in the last few years, or maybe I am wrong about that. I now live in Edinburgh it is wonderful to be able to have the Transport Museum in Glasgow and the various museums in Edinburgh as a reminder of times past.

The photographs are particularly clear and depending on how the photograph is taken some have an eerie light to them which adds to the atmosphere of the picture.

thank you for a fascinating website