Post by M***@dastardlyhq.comOn Wed, 3 Jul 2024 08:19:41 +0100
Post by Roland PerrySiddy [Curator of Hidden London] doesn't seem to be !So! !Ex!-!Cited!
about everything either.
If she was pregant during filming she could well have felt like shit.
I'm waiting for her to leg it to the USA with her american husband and pop
up doing a Secrets of the New York Subway program on PBS.
Wonder if anyone has done any historical programmes on the US systems which
would have to include the early beginnings as elevated railways many of
which as public opinion started to object to the noise above the streets
were replaced by underground lines , London was fortunate with its soft
clay in doing it one hit,
Perhaps it is a market waiting to be tapped or maybe the US audience with
an interest in such things
isn’t large enough to sustain them commercially and it would be down to
PBS to air them.
Though London rightly can claim the first “UndergrounD” route it was
really electrification and that made the concept tolerable and the
technology of that came from the US with US investors making a mark on the
London system that endured for years such as calling stock cars instead of
coaches.
ISTR the first District Railway electric stock was heavily based on what
was running in Boston on the Elevated .
I suppose New York , Boston and Chicago could provide quite few episodes
between them.
GH