Shame you couldn't stay longer Rocker and when are we meeting you Keewik, surely the old broomstick can make the joureny down south.
Snigger.
Come and meet a genuine American Page 3
Quote: Oldrocker @ 23rd March 2014, 3:31 PM GMTSorry I missed so many people last night.
I order to travel first class both ways for £31 I had to be on the 20.25. As it was I must have had the slowest tube train ride ever back to St Pancras and had about ten minutes to walk back to Euston (I don't do running!)only to see the classic scene of the tail lights disappearing down the platform!
Nice man at Euston marked my ticket valid for the 21.03 and I got in the house at around 11.30.
BTW, don't have any chips from Harry Ramsden's at Euston station. Utter crap ! (memo: send email to Harry Ramsden personally).
Nice to meet Randy and to see the faces I did manage to see.
Maybe in the Summer sometime?
My trip home was something like a Charlie Chaplin film.
You might remember OR that I said I had come on the 'surface' train FirstCityConnect for my very first time and I had been surprised that it passed the vicinity of Blackfriars TUBE station and carried on over the Thames only to stop at Blackfriars RAIL station which is actually ON THE BRIDGE, and a mere 100 yards from that pub.
You could have gone back to St Pancras via that train service, it is only two stops away.
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Anyway I did quite a zig zag trip home myself, I walked the 100 yds or so to that station, all the gates open & no staff in sight. Found on displays that there was a train heading to Bedford in about 10 mins from Platform 1. Found the platform but was a little worried that the display did not mention stopping at Kentish Town (where I wanted to get off). But looked at the route chart & saw that it HAD to go through Kentish Town so I got on the train.
As it pulled into St Pancras after one stop the tannoy said Next Stop was West Hampstead, so I cussed & got off that one there to wait for the next one. Pleased to see that the display said this one was going to stop at Kentish Town.
Got on that next train and became engrossed in trying to do something tricky on my smart phone. Drink evidently concentrates the mind, 'cos when I next looked up the train was pulling into West Hampstead.. Cussed like mad & got off, crossed the bridge, again no staff in sight.
Next rain back to Kentish town was 18 mins later & it was a bit cold standing on that platform... Eventually the train arrived & I rode back to Kentish Town & got off, by now about 01:30 am.
Feeling hungry then so bought some chicken & chips (amazing what shops are still open at that time of night). Polished that off & then caught a 134 bus which drops me off very near my house.
Finally home about )2:25 in the morning...
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Anyway it was a good evening...
Many thanks to Dabutt, his son and his son's SO.
Great to see everyone again and to meet DaButt and family, great choice of pub too with the views.
Special mention to Sootyj who was my knight in shining lycra for coming to the rescue when I couldn't for the life of me find the pub in that there London.
Quote: Shandonbelle @ 24th March 2014, 10:51 AM GMTGreat to see everyone again and to meet DaButt and family, great choice of pub too with the views.
You left when I was having a smoke, so didn't get to say goodbye. Goodbye!! 
As for stressful journeys home, I nearly got in a fight with 3 drunken blokes on the District Line because they were throwing crisps around. It got pretty tense and I was quite pleased when my stop came up and I could get off.
Looking back on it now, I should have kept my mouth shut or moved to another carriage, not worth getting stabbed over a packet of Walkers. Besides, I can't imagine the ITV London News reporter saying: 'He died tragically, bravely protecting the other passengers from crisps'.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 24th March 2014, 4:39 PM GMTYou left when I was having a smoke, so didn't get to say goodbye. Goodbye!!
As for stressful journeys home, I nearly got in a fight with 3 drunken blokes on the District Line because they were throwing crisps around. It got pretty tense and I was quite pleased when my stop came up and I could get off.
Looking back on it now, I should have kept my mouth shut or moved to another carriage, not worth getting stabbed over a packet of Walkers. Besides, I can't imagine the ITV London News reporter saying: 'He died tragically, bravely protecting the other passengers from crisps'.
I wondered where you had got to!
Confined on a train with fired up drunks...not good.
I love listening to the other passengers on the way home. There was a massive drunk shaven headed guy came into my carriage and sat telling the stranger opposite how nice his hat was and how beautiful everyone was, spreading the love all over the shop...not your average skinhead.
Quote: sootyj @ 24th March 2014, 5:17 PM GMThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1NiNKwueE
It was cold that night maybe he just wanted the hat.
Quote: Shandonbelle @ 24th March 2014, 5:39 PM GMT...not your average skinhead.
Quote: sootyj @ 24th March 2014, 5:17 PM GMThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1NiNKwueE
Sweet!
Where were you Renegade, where were you,
visions Renegade in remake of the Bodyguard with Rihana and Gary Lineker
Quote: billwill @ 24th March 2014, 4:12 AM GMTMy trip home was something like a Charlie Chaplin film.
You might remember OR that I said I had come on the 'surface' train FirstCityConnect for my very first time and I had been surprised that it passed the vicinity of Blackfriars TUBE station and carried on over the Thames only to stop at Blackfriars RAIL station which is actually ON THE BRIDGE, and a mere 100 yards from that pub.
You could have gone back to St Pancras via that train service, it is only two stops away.
So that's what the bloke in the information kiosk at Euston meant when he said two stops!
I thought he meant the Underground.
Imagine my surprise when it was about nine stops!
Quote: Oldrocker @ 24th March 2014, 8:46 PM GMTSo that's what the bloke in the information kiosk at Euston meant when he said two stops!
I thought he meant the Underground.
Imagine my surprise when it was about nine stops!
Heh Heh, not surprised.
I've lived in London for 55 years & I knew next to nothing about that railway until last Saturday.
Anyway, here is their website
http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/
but it suffers from "forget to do the obvious" syndrome.
What's the ONE main thing that you want to see on visiting a tube system, bus system or rail system... Yup A MAP showing you where it goes from & to, yet after about 20 mins searching that website, I cannot find the routes map.
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Quote: billwill @ 24th March 2014, 10:06 PM GMTHeh Heh, not surprised.
I've lived in London for 55 years & I knew next to nothing about the railway until last Saturday.
I wondered why I hadn't been able to get an ox cart for the last 150 years
Bill Will youze old.
Ah, finally found the routes map.
http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/static/pdf/network_route_map.pdf
Thanks to StKen the links into London are pretty remarkable.