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Old Jun 8, 2011, 1:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Swanhunter
... Verney Junction ...
Ah yes, Verney Junction, mentioned in John Betjeman's wonderful TV film 'Metro-land' in 1973. However, according to Wikpedia:
... Verney Junction, near to the Claydons, the most distant outpost of the Metropolitan, closed since 1936, which, by the 1970s, had largely been reclaimed by nature. Betjeman appeared to close the programme here with the words, "Grass triumphs. And I must say I’m rather glad", although the scene was in fact filmed at Shipton Lee, some five miles to the south of the former terminus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-land_%28TV%29

IIRC, Betjeman said that there had been plans for trains from Verney Junction direct to the Continent. Gosh!

Anybody remember the film Death Line (aka Raw Meat):
There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068458/

It's a long time since I saw the film, and I somehow thought that it was supposed to take place between Holborn and British Museum stations. Survivors of an underground disaster trapped in the tunnels had become cannibals, especially when there were just the one or two passengers waiting for the last train. (Those were the days ...) In my formative years, I noted that the monsters spoke the only words they got to hear - 'Mind the doors' - as they prowled.

'Stand clear of the closing doors' doesn't have the same impact.

Last edited by Roger; Jun 9, 2011 at 1:39 am Reason: cannibals, not carnivorous
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