The Anonymous Widower

A Bank Holiday To Look Forward To

C and myself, used to hate Bank Holidays and had some miserable ones.

I can remember, where we thought we’d go with the dogs to Holkham Beach, after a marvellous sunny day on the Sundasy.

However, it was foggy and after she’d sat in her bikini for about twenty minutes, expecting it to lift, as the BBC had promised, we drove home again.

This year though, according to this page on the Network Rail web site, which is entitled One month to go until new London Bridge station concourse partially opens, Londoners will be treated to a first glimpse of what could be the railways of the London’s next great station; London Bridge. In the Wikipedia entry for the station, there is this poem by John Davidson.

Inside the station, everything’s so old,
So inconvenient, of such manifold
Perplexity, and, as a mole might see,
So strictly what a station shouldn’t be,
That no idea minifies its crude
And yet elaborate ineptitude.

A dump described in six lines.

This is said on the Network Rail web page.

Bank Holiday Monday (29 August) will be the first time passengers from the region will be able to use the massive new station concourse, which is being created underneath the existing railway as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan to provide a bigger, better, more reliable railway for passengers and businesses.

This picture looks a bit different to how I visualise one of London’s grottiest station, from a few years ago.

A Network Rail Visualisation Of London Bridge Station

It looks like London Bridge might turn out to a station with both a fur coat and knickers, unlike the dreadful St. Pancras, which only has the coat.

Sadly John Davison died in 1909, so he won’t be available to write a suitable new poem.

August 7, 2016 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | London Bridge Station