Category Archives: Travellers

OK, it’s been done before, but it’s still a perfect opportunity for people watching, for observing strategies for coping with the pressures of travel. There’s sleep at one extreme and endless chatter at the other with work, reading, gaming and i-pods in between.

06.15

Photo: 25th July 2012; the 06.15 London to King’s Cross

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To KC

Travelling to King’s Cross on the Victoria Line.  An uncrowded train and the open end windows sending a breeze through the carriage.  Sometimes travelling on the London Underground is not a wholly unpleasant experience. Photo: Victoria Line, London Underground, May … Continue reading

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To Roubaix

Different worlds travel in the same tram. Photo: Lille – Roubaix Tram, March 2012

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All Liable

15.31h Hastings to Charing Cross, Thursday 16th February, 2012 : sleeping on trains is no respecter of persons, we are all liable – I had just woken up. Photo: Hastings to Charing Cross, February 2012

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Commuters

London Bridge Station, 08.23h, Thursday 16th February 2012.  Heading south to Hastings I’m going against the flow. Photo: London Bridge Station, February 2012

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Piccadilly

Shooting from the hip is a game of chance – you can’t tell what’s happening.  And you don’t see the warning sign ‘No memory card’ flashing on the screen.  I wonder what those pictures on the outward journey to Piccadilly would … Continue reading

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Disembodied

Reflections transform an ordinary bus journey into a strange disembodied movement in time and space.  A sideways glance from both subject and photographer. Photo: Bloomsbury Street, London, 1st September 2011

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Piccadilly Line

Two strangers and a brief encounter. Photo: London Underground Piccadilly Line, 3rd August 2011

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Travel Essentials

Bag, phone, laptop, nail varnish – essentials for today’s traveller. Photo: Cambridge – King’s Cross, 21st July 2011

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Waiting

Waiting for the 9.00 a.m. Citi 3 bus. Photo: Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, 1st July 2011

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7.15 p.m.

The Cambridge to King’s Cross service is fast and usually reliable.  Not that that makes standing or sitting on the floor for 50 minutes any more enjoyable or justifiable.

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Sparta

Sparta: little archaeology; only the name conjures up its heroic past. Photo: Starta, Greece, May 2011

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Metro Cycle

A bicycle on the Washington Metro.  Something else they do differently in the States.  TFL take note. Photo: Washington Metro Red Route, 25th April 2011

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Topdeck

Bus travel comes with a sightseeing tour if you ride on top. Photo: Citi 3 bus, Cambridge 18th April 2011

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Arles

At the end of a wet afternoon two worried passengers wait in the booking hall at Arles station. Photo: Arles, France, 12th March 2010

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