why is the newish coke machine at leytonstone tube station so big?

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its hugantic, there could even be a little man in there handing out drinks

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 26 September 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

DOCTOR, IT'S A TRAP!
http://www.uwm.edu/~dray/WHO/victoria.jpg

― Victoria Waterfield (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 September 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

seriously i keep on knocking on the front just to make sure its not a door to narnia or oumpa-lumpa land

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 26 September 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe they drink more Coke in Leytonstone than anywhere else. Is the Central Line the hottest (and therefore most thirst-inducing) line on the Tube?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 29 September 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe they want to boost their "killed or injured by toppling machines" statistics to deter would-be coke-theives.

― robster (robster), Monday, 29 September 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the Northern line is worse as it goes deeper underground. i haven't used a vending machine at a tube station for some time tho now you mention it.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 29 September 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i dunno, i had been drinking when i posted this. its still huge though. i was just very pleased with the thought that there could be a little man inside it.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Monday, 29 September 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

haha i can't believe i have never seen this thread - best thread ever!!

is that big machine still there??

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Is the Central Line the hottest (and therefore most thirst-inducing) line on the Tube?

But isn't Leytonstone station above-ground anyway?

(I thought this webpage was about Leytonstone, but it's actually Leyton. My point still stands, though.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

it is. it's the one where you have to make this life-or-death bet of whether to switch to the other train on the platform when you are heading to central london - because you just DON'T KNOW which one is going to depart first!!

(there's probably a sign telling you now but never when i lived there)

when you jumped trains, and then the train you abandoned moves first, it leaves you with a very empty, cold feeling.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Ah - is it the junction for the Hainault branch?

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

i think one train comes from the hainault branch, and the other from the other (epping?) branch.. most times they both converge at leytonstone, and one of them gets to move on to central london, whereas the other waits, and waits.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

see this could be the leyton station i'm thinking off here

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

nope! leytonstone

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Having been to both ends of the Central Line I have to say quite without bias that the Ruislip end is much better.

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

what are the good points about them? (the stations themselves?)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

The stations are mostly meh but the West side is more scenic due to being elevated higher for the most part, although once you pass the M25 en route to Epping there's nice countryside briefly. Unfortunately a big hill on the West side of the Northbound rail obscured a fantastic sunset when I travelled up there. For sunsets on a station platform Greenford's hard to beat.

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

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