A few tiny things I learned about London Underground today that delighted me, a small thread:
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8. Genuinely impressed by the size of the cable wheels powering the Glasgow Subway before electrification. (San Francisco cable cars power station has some big wheels, but they don’t seem nearly as impressive.)pic.twitter.com/3xmZvAQ8NW
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9. (Back to London.) The Barbican tube station has this cute plaque, celebrating a station cat called Pebbles. (And there’s an entire page dedicated to railway and station cats of Great Britain: http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/featuring/wk-rail04a.html …)pic.twitter.com/jrt4NDscd9
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This is such a clever idea. Reminds me of putting ominous spikes above nuclear waste storage to ward off intruders - doesn’t need to be dangerous in itself if it tricks your brain into feeling threatenedpic.twitter.com/cx13oMix0w
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Oh, yes! That’s a good one. I remember watching the whole documentary about this!
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