http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/ TubeGroup Sun, 11 May 2008 18:30:53 GMT tele706 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5796 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5796 If it's at the front of the station and upstairs it is probably the old recruitment office and before that general LT offices of which there was once an entire Sun, 11 May 2008 18:16:40 GMT Gerry Cork http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5795 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5795 Glad to see it's been put to a good use. Wetherspoons has its knockers but in most of their pubs you are more or less guaranteed to get a decent pint! Gerry Sun, 11 May 2008 17:32:45 GMT Ed Elloway http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5794 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5794 Hi there, ... It's featured in John Betjeman's 'Metro-Land' film and apparently used to be the Chiltern Court restaurant of the Metropolitan Railway. The Fri, 09 May 2008 17:54:24 GMT James Fairchild http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5793 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5793 Sorry if you receive this more than once (or if a seperate message has been sent to your group by others) also if this is a little too off topic for certain Thu, 08 May 2008 17:40:15 GMT tele706 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5792 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5792 Actually another station bar that is long gone is the one that used to be in the ticket hall at South Kensington. In the good old days of the 1970s and 1980s I Thu, 08 May 2008 16:57:02 GMT tele706 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5791 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5791 Exactly and that is what I meant ! Thu, 08 May 2008 16:22:27 GMT Michael Wadman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5790 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5790 Actually there's a jolly decent Wetherspoons - The Metropolitan Bar - on Baker Street Station Approach. I think that it actually used to be part of the Thu, 08 May 2008 15:35:15 GMT Malcolm Brady http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5789 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5789 Brian You have confirmed my thinking I was 70/30 whether it was Blackfriars or Sloane Square (outer rail?) that had a bar. One other I can recall from many Thu, 08 May 2008 15:05:33 GMT Gavin Payne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5788 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5788 On the BART metro/subway in San Francisco getting any food or drink out either at the stations or on-board gets your the harshest of looks during the daytime, Thu, 08 May 2008 11:47:29 GMT Peter Relf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5787 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5787 You can't ban all food and liquids, as that would prevent people taking their sandwiches (etc.) to work, and taking their shopping home ! It is the actual Thu, 08 May 2008 11:30:33 GMT P Dredge http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5786 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5786 So you would try to ban someone from taking a bar of chocolate or a pack of polos on the tube or bus-dream on! Thu, 08 May 2008 11:20:47 GMT tele706 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5785 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5785 I'm not talking about water but all other liquids and when I say food I mean all food. Thu, 08 May 2008 10:44:14 GMT P Dredge http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5784 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5784 Until you sort out the heat problems in the tube you can't ban drink- aren't their posters put up in the summer telling people to take water with them on the Thu, 08 May 2008 10:33:50 GMT tele706 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5783 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5783 The bars are long gone from the platforms at Liverpool Street, King's Cross and Sloane Square and I'm not sure if the bar in the ticket hall at Baker Street Thu, 08 May 2008 10:02:26 GMT sipis2946 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5782 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tubegroup/message/5782 oops, I originally wrote 'water holes' but decided not to - as I am work posting messages in between other duties so obviously I removed the word 'watering'