Comments on: Rush Hour At Liverpool St Station

By: David j Gabriel

David j Gabriel — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:05:57 +0000

Watching the trains arrive at Liverpool st was a pass time my great friend Leslie Briggs and
Myself use to enjoy from time to time,
We used to stand on the upper level just watching the people getting off there trains and scurrying off to work,
We were on OWER dinner brake at 8am if we had no money we would go to Liverpool st and do some people watching (memory’s )

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:50:01 +0000

Lovely words and pictures. I used to pass through Liverpool Street every day, and one of my favourite things was to just stop for five minutes and watch people like this – fascinating!

By: cmc

cmc — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:53:27 +0000

Is that Martin McGuinness on the escalator in the 6th picture?

By: Bob Land

Bob Land — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:14:20 +0000

Interesting photo’s but too much reality to be pleasurable viewing. Thousands of faces, not one smile.

I don’t think the term ‘rush hour’ has had any meaning for some years now. I have struggled to get on a packed Northern Line train at 10 pm on a Wednesday night and I have boarded the Central Line at 7 am at Stratford and have had to stand until Oxford Circus.

By: mary

mary — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:24:51 +0000

Did you see this http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=59b_1238709984 when £25000 in £5 notes was scattered over the commuters on liverpool St?

By: Natalie Koch

Natalie Koch — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:54:17 +0000

Lovely article, it does bring back memories…. Liverpool St has always been my ‘gateway’ to London, that’s where I arrived the first time I visited the city as a kid in the early eighties, and I remember how awed I was by those dark brick walls you pass before entering the station. When I was living in Walthamstow for a while a couple of years ago it really became ‘my’ station.

By: Mirjam Visser

Mirjam Visser — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:22:18 +0000

Great article.
I love London trainstations for some reason (I’m not a train’nerd’ at all). Liverpool Street is special in that it is the station at which I arrive when I visit London, travelling on the boattrain from Harwich to the most wonderful city in the world. (I’m from Holland).
The last time I was in London, two years ago now, I arrived at o8.30 and bought a cup of tea and a pasty, and sat down to watch the crowds. It was amazing and captivating to see that enormous throng of humanity pass you by.
Another memory I have is the time I arrived on a Saturday evening in 1990. There weren’t many passengers on the train and the station was almost empty, at least the concourse was completely devoid of people. Except one man, rushing towards the taxistands. Out of all the people in London, it was none other than Lionel Blair…., 😉

Mirjam
Hoek van Holland

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:12:17 +0000

I love Liverpool Street, it’s my London station when we visit the capital from East Anglia. There’s always a great sense of anticipation as the train crawls in through the blackened high brick walls and emerges in the iron and glass cathedral-like station hall. My great-great-grandfather left Suffolk to be a railway guard at Stratford in the 1840s and my niece now commutes from Brentwood to L’pool Street every day. I can’t see her in the photos!

Thanks for an interesting post and wonderful pictures. I hope you both treated yourself to a hearty breakfast.

By: Penny Wythes

Penny Wythes — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:50:05 +0000

Love the article, love the pictures – I too knew Liverpool Street well in the past, although not as a commuter – it was the start of a journey home to parents, while I lived and worked in London – my commute was always tube.
Would absolutely love to see some old photographs of the major London stations if you have any………..

By: Patricia Celeveland-Peck

Patricia Celeveland-Peck — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:35:58 +0000

A very good piece of writing. I particularly liked the idea that the preoccupied commuters “still inhabited the dreams of the night.”