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Yeah thats the platform for South Kensington. The platform is for the District and Circle lines which are "Sub-terranian" not properly underground railways. It's very old infrastructure, after the Metropolitan line this is the earliest underground line (Circle that is, District uses the same line but it branches off to various parts of South West and East London)

The Piccadilly Line is the main line connecting Heathrow Airport to the city and the main railway stations of Kings Cross St Pancras which is the biggest underground station with six lines converging there. It's also still deep underground so its a true "underground" station. But at Earl's Court a few miles down the road it rises out into the surface and branches off at Acton into two lines. One going all the way up to Uxbridge in the northwest (near Brunel University) the other going to all the terminals of Heathrow Airport.

Basically because it was Easter Friday (i.e. a bank holiday) loads of tourists were heading towards the airport. Also South Kensington is the nearest tube station to three of Londons museums the Natural History, Science and Prince Albert ones. So loads of tourists were about. I think me and my friend Prem were probably the few token Londoner's actually there on that platform. So you had tourists coming into london and tourists going out of London



I think their trying to prevent people from sitting on the lawn and ruining the grass probably, not sure why



It's a gate house to one of the entrances to Hyde Park. The biggest park in the centre of London.



I have absolutely no idea.

The red and white barriers are because the road is closed to traffic as they are re-developing and re-paving the road all the way up to Hyde Park. You can see the road works in other pics further up the road. This is the bottom of the road near the tube station. The top of the road is the pic of the gatehouse in hyde park.



I have to admit when I saw that picture of Hammersmith Bridge I'd taken on the way back from the pub I was pretty chuffed. Not bad for a 5 bit megapixel blackberry torch

A phoenix

That pic is rather stunning sunshower. I have a brand new camera i just got in the post this morning so I took it out earlier and took some rather large 16:9 aspect pictures opps! No wonder i filled up the internal memory like no tomorrow.

Oh yeah the first pic is me testing it. Thats my 28 inch monitor that I use for my main machine. My other PC and monitor are in storage at the moment.



The rest of these pictures I took earlier today at Sharpenhoe Clappers. It's the edge of the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire, just to the north of a city called Luton. I also took some pics with my blackberry as well. Need to get a SD card before I take this camera out properly!

Pictures I took with my blackberry mobile phone

thank you for the information! and for your patience. i am very curious and my eye picks out things that are "different" in pictures from other places and i am driven to understand what makes things unique.


i checked and it's not a flatiron building. i found the location online, and it was just an illusion from the angle of the pic. it looks like you only have one flatiron building in London, and it is a recent development. we have a couple in my province. they are built on triangular blocks, which makes them look like flat irons.

we don't use and red and white barriers like that, at all. sometimes there are yellow ones or grey ones only. everything seems to be so colourful in london, with lots of red everywhere.

I have no specific information for that building, other than to say that it looks like many other typical high street offices/apartments over shops and is probably restored late 1800's or early 1900's building stock.
I rarely look up when out and about (actually, I'm also rarely out and about ) and it's always a surprise to see the interesting architecture 'going on up there'.

It never really occurred to me how clean the platforms are - but it's true; they are, and uniformly so too.

Laz: Whereabouts are the photos you took on a mobile phone? Where they from a train?

Mobile phones take good quality photos, nowadays.

interesting you don't look up. is it a habit or just that you look at the ground? i have a phobia of looking upward, which is much improved now but it still gets me sometimes.

i really need to get some photos of my train stations to show the contrast as they are quite disgusting in my city (actually, i probably don't need to share that, but it is curious to see the difference). someone will spill a sodapop on the entryway stairs and it will not be washed off for 2 weeks. the platforms are not quite as bad, but always look somewhat dirty.

correct me if i'm wrong, but i think those might be horse chestnut pods! i am planning to grow some horse chestnut trees (also walnut and bur oak) this year, though they don't grow that well in my climate.

No they were in the same place I used the camera. But the camera ran out of internal memory cause I was taking everything in HD 16:9 just to see how it would come out (photobucket resizes the originals anyway)

They were on top of a hill the nearest railway line would be several miles away running through Luton uptowards the Midlands and south yorkshire.

Sharpenhoe Clappers is the western end of the "Icknield way" an old road that goes roughly east to west between the chilterns in Buckinghamshire and the Fens in Cambridgeshire

It's an ancient woodland with chalk grassland. It's also the memorial to the crew of a Lancaster Bomber which crashlanded on the hill in dense fog when returning from a bombing run in Germany. I didn't take a picture of the memorial because there was a couple having a bit of an intimate moment which i didn't really want to disturb so I left it for another day

They were at the bottom of these sets of tree's if you can identify which species it was do tell. I kinda suck when it comes to tree's Mushrooms i'm good at other fauna i suck at.

I think they might be beech nuts. I used to eat them when I was a kid.

i think you are correct, and i am wrong.

I'm not too sure what's going on there, TBH.
If I look horizontally I just see too many expressions and it becomes a kind-of visual noise which grabs too much attention. That, and/or people looking at me - so I tend to aim for the pavement about 15' ahead and 'peek' horizontally as required.
Heh. That's about 10' further forward than it was when I was a kid.