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Stacey @xstitcher (30253) • Petaluma, California 19 Jun

I went to take something to the mailbox, and evidently some landscaping guys are "squirting" new woodchips in certain areas. Of course, the big tube from their truck was going right across the path I usually go down. Not wanting...

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In many of the heritage resorts they kept vintage relics.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (17903) 4 Feb 23

In many heritage resorts they preserved vintage relics of civilization that 100 years ago. For example I visited certain zamindar houses which preserved some gorgora with tube related to use of hookah. There are places where old...

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That Sinking Feeling on the Underground

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 20 Dec 19

On one of my trips into the City I noticed these yellow things on the Bakerloo Line platform, at Paddington. I was fairly certain they were something to do with lasers, but beyond that I was fairly clueless. Turns out there are...

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The Future of Transportation

Nanette Piotrowski @nanette64 (20364) • Fairfield, Texas 31 Jul 18

The Las Vegas Desert is where a new technology in transportation called the Virgin Hyperloop is being tested. 200 scientists are working on a levitating pod inside a tube using magnetic suspension to get from point A to point...

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The Great Detective

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 8 Feb 17

Baker Street, being home to the Great Detective, it will be no great surprise that the motif on the Tube Station platforms is the man himself. The photo shows the Bakerloo platform, where the tiles have miniatures of the classic...

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British Museum, Change Here

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 1 Feb 17

Holborn gets its name from the old English 'holh' meaning hollow and 'burna' meaning stream. The station standing close to where the, now subterranean, River Fleet flows to the Thames. In 1933 the British Museum station closed...

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Sisters and Stars

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 31 Jan 17

Seven Sisters Underground and Overground station sits on Seven Sisters Road, north London. The road gets its name, strangely enough, from seven sisters, who before going their separate ways each planted an Elm tree outside a...

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Film on the Underground

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 30 Jan 17

I have previously touched on the small flourishes added to Tube Stations, mostly overlooked, that give a little taste of local character. Leicester Square is home to a number of cinemas and UK film premiers are frequently held...

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A mouthwash.

ingrid @ridingbet (66857) • Philippines 10 Jan 17

This tube of my consumed toothpaste is a mouthwash. This was suggested to me by my sister. I wanted to throw the tube but she said I can add water and this could be a mouthwash already. Have you tried this? I am making this...

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Future Tubes

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 20 Sep 16

Future proofing is becoming a major feature of the design process for London trains. On the left of the picture, above, is Clapham Common Station. When this station opened in 1900 it was the southern end of the Northern Line,...

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Cats on the Tube

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 19 Sep 16

It is not just the internet, until next Monday Clapham Common Tube Station has been taken over by cats. Arriving at the station you see the normal advertising posters, but as you exit the station you pass posters of cats in the...

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Wrong Station, Right Line

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 27 Aug 16

At Embankment Tube Station, there is a typo that has been around for years and, can be, rather misleading. In the passageway to the Bakerloo Line the route map shows a stop at Willesden Green (8th from the top). The right half of...

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Best Plotted Plans Failed

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 26 Aug 16

Earlier in the week I spent a morning ambling around Town, following a list of 'quirky' things I wanted to see. I started at Whitechapel Tube Station. I think this is the only place where Underground trains pass over the top of...

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New Underground Trains

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 27 Apr 16

There is a slow revolution taking place on London's Tube. With the increasing number of people working in the city the underground system struggles to cope. The solution for the 'Sub Surface' has been the introduction of new...

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Honesty in Advertising?

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 25 Apr 16

While wandering, aimlessly, around London last week I spotted this poster on a Tube train. It struck me that Vegas and it ad agency may have been a bit desperate, but possibly not as much as the Brits who are winging their way...

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Underground Rail Rat

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 12 Apr 16

If you have spent any amount of time on London Underground you will have seen some of the system's resident population of rodents. Mostly it will be the dark coloured mice scurrying back and forth hunting for food scraps, but...

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Winston's Tube Station

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 4 Apr 16

Winston Churchill planned the early stages of WWII, from an old Tube station, Down St, before moving into a purpose built HQ in north London. Sitting between Hype Park Corner and Green Park (then called Dover St) stations, Down...

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Indoor Underground Station

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 29 Mar 16

A later feature of training on the Underground was working 'trackside' at West Ashfield station. You will not find this station on a map of the Underground, as it lives on the 6th floor (I think) of the training centre. On this...

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Learning Underground

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 27 Mar 16

Way back in the last century I joined London Underground. After getting my LU mug, it was off to training school for several weeks. Dealing with heavy and fairly fast moving trains, not to mention electric rails at just the right...

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Footballing Underground

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (17836) • London, England 27 Mar 16

Arsenal Tube Station, on the Piccadilly Line, is the only station on the Underground network to be named after a football club. Originally called Gillespie Road, the name of the residential street above and opened in 1906....

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