More Demolition At London Bridge Station
As I came back, I passed through London Bridge station.
Very little is now left of the old station.
Note the pristine refurbished Class 465 in one picture.
Some may decry our trains, but we have one of the newest fleets in the world and even ones like these, which are wenty years old, look almost fresh out of the factory.
Football At Welling
I was going to see Welling United play Salisbury City.
It was pleasant to sit in the sun . Even if it was a goalless draw, with a sending off and a missed penalty.
This was the only match yesterday in the London area.
Out Of Charing Cross Station For The First Time
It may seem strange, but yesterday was the first time, I took a train out of Charing Cross station. Here are a few pictures, as the train travelled to London Bridge.
Note the Victorian replica of Charing Cross outside the station,one of the Golden Jubilee footbridges on the Hungerford Railway Bridge and Southwark Cathedral.
An Arrogant Building
I don’t like this building, as it destroyed a perfectly good Nash Terrace.
An Arrogant Building
But then it was done a few years ago and at the whim of bankers.
Wheatstone Remembered
As I passed Kings College by the Aldwych yesterday, I passed this tribute to Charles Wheatstone.
Wheatstone Remembered
He was one of the more unusual scientists this country has ever produced and was a true scientist and inventor.
Blackpool Suffers A Couple Of Tremors
This report on the BBC says that Blackpool has been shaken by a couple of earthquakes.
They must have been really major, as BBC Breakfast isn’t reporting the tremors this morning. Perhaps, they couldn’t find a reporter and film crew, who wanted to go!
I wonder though how many people believe this is all down to fracking? I did check comments on a report in a tabloid and there were a few comments, suggesting that the anti-frackers will blame fracking.
Ashes To Ashes
I was listening to the end of the Fifth Test on TMS last night and the way it ended was disgraceful. But then Jonathan Agnew felt the same here on the BBC, He wrote this in the article.
The way the fifth and final Ashes Test finished on Sunday evening leaves one both speechless and angry.
For the bad-light regulations to force the umpires to take the players off the field with England needing just 21 runs off 24 balls for the victory, in front of a full house at The Oval, with millions watching and listening at home on the edge of their seats, is an absolute disgrace.
There are many of us who have talked to people at the ICC about this. We have told them what was likely to transpire.
We obviously need rules for the umpires, but they must be ones that work and everybody respects.
As it stands now, we will see more players and fans cheated of exciting finishes.
I can’t help thinking that some of these running out of time problems with cricket would be helped by moving the clocks to get lighter evenings in the summer.
But then the Lighter Later legislation was talked out by the politicians.
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