E10 (and, if you like, E11)

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lets talk about leyton and leytonstone now, bakers arms, whipps cross etc? why is it so big? is it the acton of the NE?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

can't this be about Ealing bus routes instead?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Leytonstone is OK. Leyton is a dump.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

it suffers a lot from not being on the tube, and the roads are always so snarled up.

Good food shopping though, the fishmongers on Hoe st, just round the corner from bakers arms is fantastic.

I have to confess to always being confused which is where, and where the boundaries are. it has all merged into one.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Leytonstone and Leyton are both on the Jubilee line, are they not?

I have no desire to go, ever.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Central Line.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

but there's so much of them that is nowhere near the tube.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the two tube stations are weird, and I always get them mixed up. The one on the bridge not far from Brisbane road is nowhere near the parts it's supposed to serve, for instance Bakers arms is better served by Stow central. They do have good bus links tho.

N is pretty much spot on though.

― chris (chris), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Cor building a tube station a long way away from the places it was supposed to serve seems a bit of an oversight.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

maye it was like in those comedy prison movies where they dig an escape tunnel only it comes up in the governer's office

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course if they'd built the station nearer to the places it was supposed to service it wauld have been a long way away from the tracks

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

In ver early days of the tube stations were often named after places not that near because all the places that were near couldn't agree on a name to call that bit of the world. (Rail is even worse that this - if a trainline went with five miles of a place it was often called that). Elstree station for example is in Borehamwood - which was tiny 100 years ago and much larger now. THe & Borehamwood was only added fifteen years ago.

I'm not sure there was ever a real difference between Leyton (the area in general) and Leyton's Stone (a particular landmark in the borough).

I think Tim has glibly just made my point a lot better (people don't want their houses knocked down so a train can be more central).

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 16 June 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

can't this be about Ealing bus routes instead?

I like the E8 and the good old 207. The 65 is interesting.

Does E10/11 have a big Australian pub like the Redback? (we should have a FAP there). If not, then it'll never be an Acton.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man, not The Redback - went there twice, find it hard to enjoy places like that, what with them being so...fun...

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Does E10/11 have a big Australian pub like the Redback? (we should have a FAP there). If not, then it'll never be an Acton.

E11 doesn't have any Aussie pubs, though there IS one just out of Stratford common. Don't bother with Acton; tis a bit too far to have an FAP,

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

boooo, sadly you're right. easier for me and jel to get to tho. acton is a bit rub for that sort of thing anyway quite frankly so perhaps its for the best. for an Aussie pub FAP the best bet would probably be the Walkabout that has been audaciously installed in the old church that was the Limelight club (!)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

are there any books about (even tangentially) the M11 protests?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:05 (twenty years ago)

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