CH station

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:26 pm

points for dullness ...

http://www.southernrailwayuk.com/stamjunc.html

but good memories of escaping outside the ring fence!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:39 pm

eloisec wrote:points for dullness ...

http://www.southernrailwayuk.com/stamjunc.html

but good memories of escaping outside the ring fence!

haha, you must have been bored...

IO noticed this on the site:

"One thing here makes me curious - what was the purpose of the arch now bricked in in the subway?"

The building now used used to be on the island platform - the arch bricked up went to Platform 1 where the main building used to stand...

Also, interrsting to see pictures of CH without the music school...

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:45 pm

I'm editing an eJournal webpage, so yes, I'm VERY bored!

Being an architecture fan, I think it's a shame the Victorian Gothic station got replaced by it's dreary modern 'hut'.

I guess the bricked up arch once led out to the other side of the tracks away from CH station? I have no idea.

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:01 pm

Not entirely relevant - but if you like architecture, this is quite a good site http://www.derelictlondon.com/derelict_london_com.htm

The old CH station featured in the B&W film "Rotten to the Core" (somewhere towards the end).

Wasn't there a huge train crash at CH in the sixties (a short time before Beeching reduced the railways)

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:12 pm

thanks for the website

I believe the crash was in 1964

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:39 pm

The school station was also used in a St Trinians film as well I think...

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:28 am

Are you sure? That sounds like an Urban Myth to me. (She says having the box set of the films and having watched them many, many times)

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:09 pm

Deb GP wrote:Are you sure? That sounds like an Urban Myth to me. (She says having the box set of the films and having watched them many, many times)

It's what my aunt told me- maybe you should rewatch them!!

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:02 pm

Tsk - have just got over the husband having a "Lord of the Rings", "James Bond" and "Star Wars" watchathons over the winter for all his mates (which were just excuses for them to eat my cakes and drink our beer). I don't think I can go through another film fest just yet... Maybe later in the year.

tobeconfirmed · Post by **tobeconfirmed** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:34 pm

Since yesterday, the website now ceases to exist! Instead is a depressed and (attempted) guilt-tripping message, on the main page at http://www.southernrailwayuk.com

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:40 pm

Oops... oh well, it was worth a look when we could...

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:21 pm

isn't that just typical?!

for those of you wishing to leave CH here you go
http://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/67travelform.pdf

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:47 pm

Oh the memories. My parents used to give me all the forms that CH sent them, told me complete what was relevant and let them know where to sign! Was fab! I don't think they actually knew what was happening for me at the school at all. They certainly only came to two parents days - one for GCSE options and because I asked them to complain to a teacher. I guess if things had been bad, they'd have known about it, so it wasn't a worry.

tobeconfirmed · Post by **tobeconfirmed** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:55 pm

Many people just don't bother to do the nosey forms anymore, because most people travel to exactly the same place at exactly the same time by the same means of transport, at the beginning and end of the vast majority of holidays! They never ask you if you haven't given in your form, they just assume you're going to the same place. But I do remember when they used to get so frantic about it, and told you that it was of the utmost urgency that you hand it in...

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