• @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    My gran lived about 100m from Arsenal station, one of the deepest and safest in London. Instead of going there during raids, she took my mum and her baby son into the basement; she said the underground stations were for poor people. The smell was also pretty unbearable.

  • HubertManne
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    141 year ago

    I would be scared as heck to lay on the rails. Don’t care how much the trains were not running.

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      131 year ago

      Yeah feel like it’s similar to don’t look down the barrel of an unloaded gun. Sure, there’s not supposed to be a bullet in there, but the risk if you’re mistaken is too great. There’s not supposed to be a train coming down those tracks, but would be pretty bad if there was.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Aldwych station was apparently closed during the war. Anyway, I’m pretty sure someone would have had a look before running a train down there.

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          11 year ago

          I’m sure you’re right. I guess my example was because even if you’re certain that the chamber is empty because you cleared it yourself, you still have an inhibition about looking down the barrel. Even if logically I knew no trains were coming, I’d have a hard time sleeping there.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    ur not supposed to step beyond the yellow line, it is dangerous. I hope they were arrested