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Ghost Stations of the London Underground

Posted by chrisd on from the they're-just-waiting-for-gaiman dept.

PinchDuck writes "Check out this site to get a tour of London Underground stations that have been abandoned during the century+ history of the commuter system. You can apparently still get to some of them! (though not by taking the Tube, obviously). I wish I had found this site 2 weeks ago, when I went to London, but now my geeky explorations must wait until my next visit (having just flown back in to Detroit today)."

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  1. Very interesting by unterderbrucke · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Urban decay just fascinates me.
    One step closer to the vision of NYC in AI (the movie by Spielberg)....

    1. Re:Very interesting by Thomas+M+Hughes · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Or even what would be left of this civilization in three or four thousand years when no-one remembers who the presidents of the United States of America were, or what wars were fought and why...

      We still talk about the leaders of Egypt, and the pyramids are still standing, and that was around 6,000 years ago if I'm not mistaken. Its amazing just how much can be reconstructed from ruins. It'll be more interesting after humans leave the planet (through exodus or extinction) and something discovers our ruins. I bet Disney World gets remembered as the largest place of worship on the planet, and that Mickey Mouse was a god we worshiped by giving little green pieces of paper to his church.
  2. Re:[ More pages like this ] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is absolutely no irony in that statement.

    You obviously learnt about irony from Alanis Morisette.

  3. Re:There are dark and strange things down there... by meringuoid · · Score: 3, Insightful
    one mod acting wierd I can understand, but 3?!

    I think the third one came along, saw my followup post, and decided to be wilfully perverse :-)

    The trailers for RoF all showed dragons wrecking London with great enthusiasm, so I don't think I've given away anything particularly spoilerish...

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  4. Those are Maps by The+Ape+With+No+Name · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "In order to better understand the location of these stations on today's network, you may wish to download a copy of the world famous underground map (well, technically it's a diagram not a map)"

    Um. Take a trained geographer's word, that's a map. I guess Polynesian wave and star charts are not maps because they don't show geomorphological features in an easily discernible way to Westerners... We are part of the landscape. Get over it.

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    1. Re:Those are Maps by nagora · · Score: 3, Insightful
      A map is any representation of the nature of relations among points in space.

      Harry Beck's diagram of the London Underground is a representation of the nature of connections, not relations of points in space. That's why it's not a map.

      only that such-and-such station is near another station.

      It gives no such information; if it did the LU map would be huge unless it had a regular, calculated, distortion applied. It does not.

      No accounting for idiots, I suppose.

      TWW

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