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« on: October 18, 2022, 11:59:29 »


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63175951
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2022, 17:50:03 »

So it's a dead end with a bit of old stock in it?
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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2022, 21:34:36 »

I took a look a few weeks ago. It's a very long walk from the concourse to the Brewdog pub with only a handful of shops occupied in between. I wish I had used a stopwatch as when I got to Brewdog, I decided I then didn't have time to go in as I had to walk all the way back to the concourse and then walk from the twenty something platforms over to platform 1 to catch my train. The pubs outside the station are nearer.

Oh and I previously read somewhere that a pint in Brewdog is about £7. It's supposedly the largest bar in London and may be the only bar currently open in the station.
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« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2022, 21:38:50 »

"There is an eerie silence in a shopping centre beneath London Waterloo, the station from which Eurostar trains once whisked people from the capital to mainland Europe."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
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« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2022, 23:24:46 »

See Waterloo - the sidings thread for the same info
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« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2022, 23:26:38 »

Duplicate thread started in the SWR» (South Western Railway - about) board
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2022, 00:35:03 »

As per most 'new articles' others got there first.  Ian Visits wrote about this back on 4 October
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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2022, 03:59:07 »

See Waterloo - the sidings thread for the same info

Duplicate thread started in the SWR» (South Western Railway - about) board

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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2022, 20:00:21 »

As per most 'new articles' others got there first.  Ian Visits wrote about this back on 4 October

Some of the photos in that article make me think of 20th century BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) science fiction spaceship interiors.
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« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2022, 21:17:27 »

I took a look a few weeks ago. It's a very long walk from the concourse to the Brewdog pub with only a handful of shops occupied in between. I wish I had used a stopwatch ......

I am going to retract this comment as I took another walk there last week and it didn't take anywhere near as long as I remembered the first time. I think the first time I also explored the lower level before I reached the entrance of Brewdog which probably explains why I thought it was a long walk.

This time I started from the National Windrush Monument on the concourse, pressed Start on the OutdoorActive app and walked to Brewdog and pressed End. The app tells me that this time I walked 0 metres. That's probably due to a lack of a GPS signal down there. It also tells me I walked less than a minute which also doesn't sound right. I'll try again next week using my phones stopwatch
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« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2022, 17:13:56 »

Roll on when they get Sainsburys finished. They’ll beat M&S in prices hands down. Meanwhile am really pi$$ed off that both M&S and Pure refuse to take cash payments. What’s wrong with our British money?
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« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2022, 17:19:31 »

Brewdog’s £7 a pint of beer-flavoured water is outrageous. When Spoons can do pints of real ale for £3.50’ish Brewdog’s greed is unacceptable.
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« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2022, 19:21:57 »

Brewdog’s £7 a pint of beer-flavoured water is outrageous. When Spoons can do pints of real ale for £3.50’ish Brewdog’s greed is unacceptable.

If I could make a little plug here ? Just over Waterloo Road is the Union Jack Club: Cheap beer (£2.90), excellent food, superb value accommodation and first class general surroundings. If you are an ex member of the UK (United Kingdom) armed forces (non-commissioned) it is well worth its annual membership fee, just for a couple of visits a year to break even.

https://ujc.org.uk/
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« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2022, 20:29:23 »

Brewdog’s £7 a pint of beer-flavoured water is outrageous. When Spoons can do pints of real ale for £3.50’ish Brewdog’s greed is unacceptable.

If I could make a little plug here ? Just over Waterloo Road is the Union Jack Club: Cheap beer (£2.90), excellent food, superb value accommodation and first class general surroundings. If you are an ex member of the UK (United Kingdom) armed forces (non-commissioned) it is well worth its annual membership fee, just for a couple of visits a year to break even.

https://ujc.org.uk/

"The MOD has estimates there are 2 million armed forces veterans in the UK".  I understood at one point it might be possible for the other 58 million of us to stay there - not all at once, of course.
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« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2022, 20:14:05 »

This time I started from the National Windrush Monument on the concourse, pressed Start on the OutdoorActive app and walked to Brewdog and pressed End. The app tells me that this time I walked 0 metres. That's probably due to a lack of a GPS signal down there. It also tells me I walked less than a minute which also doesn't sound right. I'll try again next week using my phones stopwatch

OK. It took me 2 minutes and 10 seconds to get to Brewdog from the National Windrush Monument on the concourse today. Still haven't been inside yet.
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