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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

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Londoners and others from the Home counties at that time, please PM me with the answer so that those from the provinces can have a go at researching this question.

During the 50's, when London's Trams wre still running it was possible to stand on one of the Thames bridges and "see" trams disappear.

At least they went under the bridge and didn't come out the otherside although others emerged which hadn't been seen going under the bridge.

Why was this, what bridge, what caused this Blackhole and what is the evidence of it which is still in use today?
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Salopian · Joined: 05 Jan 2010 Posts: 354 Location: Newport Shropshire

Umm - no research done as I'm testing my memory. I think Waterloo Bridge and Kingway(?) underpass. Where I've heard/read that I've no idea and I have never been there.
Might have been mentioned by my long departed Father when watching the boat race - he worked near London briefly prior to 1939.
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P3steve · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:26 pm Post subject:

I was lucky enough to go on a guided tour of the old Kingsway subway which at the time was complete including the running rails and conduit slot beyound Holburn Tram station almost to Aldwych station where the tunnel is now used for the car underpass. Going off at a tangent here is a link to a chap who has built a really cool model of the kingsway subway, I'm a real sucker for this sort of thing but just dont have the patients for any thing like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFVlos5gofY&feature=related
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

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Well that didn't take long did it.
I hadn't realised it must have been the late 40's or possibly Festival of Britain time when I saw it.

Let's keep the thread going with some one else coming up with an obscure transport poser.

But here is an easy one to be going on with.
Which motorway services couild be destroyed with a volley from which weapons without changing their location or elevation?
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P3steve · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:25 pm Post subject:

So you've been on the Belfast too!
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

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Jim.Walker · Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Chesterfield

I'm surprised that the Kingsway underpass mention produced so little in recollections. OK, I know trams ceased using it a long time, but not a lifetime ago (mine anyway!). I remember clearly transiting in a tram and the pick-up slot in the road really fascinated me.
Surely there are other Forum contributors who still remember it in use? Particularly London residents.
Although I have always lived far from London, my Auntie ran a cafe round the corner in High Holburn, which we always visited at Motor Show time.
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

P3steve · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 5:56 pm Post subject:

Taken at the East Anglian Transport Museum in Lowestoft an HR2 class London tram behind my Rover still with its plough carrier and spare plough under one of the stairs, though built for the hilly Dog Kennal hill rout with four moters this tram would have been a regular in the Kingsway subway aswell.

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Peter_L · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:26 am Post subject:

Who moved to driving on the right and then changed back again, all within 5 years ?

P3steve · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:37 am Post subject:

Now that's got me
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Riley Blue · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1751 Location: Derbyshire

Peter_L · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:29 am Post subject:

[quote="riley541"][quote="peterwpg"]Who moved to driving on the right and then changed back again, all within 5 years ?[/quote]

Please sir, I know, I know!! It was the Channel Islands during and after WW2![/quote]

Your are correct ........

My parents sailed out of St Helier, hours before the occupation troops arrived.

As they looked back at the island, my father realised he had the key to their house in his pocket, he threw it into the sea with the words...

"well that's the end of that then"