A Day in London - what to see?

I'd be interested in knowing as well cos have to go down occasionally and usually have couple of hours spare. All have found so far is Cornwall at Science museum, well worth a visit.

cheers, Simon

Guy/Simon -

Depends what you are looking for, but assuming it is railways and/or books, try the Ian Allan bookshop at Waterloo, the LT Museum at Covent Garden (have lunch at Porters), and if it's not too far afield the Engine Shed at Leytonstone.

If you are near Waterloo station you could make a detour to Ian Allan's at

By the way at the corner of Lower Marsh and Waterloo Road there is a remaindered book shop which often has interesting very cheap books, and if you are into jazz and classical music there is the rather quaint old 2nd hand music shop called Gramex (although they have tarted it up a bit) at

Alan

LOL! Brain f*rt, that's why I couldn't find the David & Charles bookshop.

MBQ

If you are into music, the Queen Elizabeth Hall is near to Waterloo Station, and the Royal Opera House is near the London Transport Museum.

The Cartoon Museum on Little Russell Street; the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincolns Inn Fields; the Bank of England museum; the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy.

There's nothing worth seeing related to railway modelling, unless you're going to go and visit a club or a fellow modeller.

I'm not terribly impressed by it. But do go to the Acton depot if you're in town on one of the days it's open:

In that case, go to the Geological museum. as well as being very interesting you can learn all about the different types of ballast and what minerals they consist of - no there isnt a display labelled such, but bet the rocks are there, esp Shap granite which is a true granite not a monumental mason one.

Cheers, Simon

Is it too much trouble for you to write in English, or weould you rather qualify for reader's kill file? It's bad enough trying to wade through the I-don't-know-how-to-capitalise-words brigade without having to deal with your slovenly, sloppy idea of English grammar. And please spare us the offended sensibilities - if no one has ever pulled you up over this, which I doubt, then it's long overdue.

Picking nits, are we?

In that case, I see two minor errors, one ambiguous pronoun reference, and one local idiom in your whinge.

wolf k.

No he's right, substance over presentation has always been a fault of mine. I'll take the killfile please.

cheers, Simon

I think that as the first post to this group (as far as Plusnet's servers are making me aware) from this pernickety whinger who doesn't have the guts to use his/her/its real name has several errors in it whilst criticising your posts for grammar and spelling, I'll also be opting for the killfile.

uk.* drop from: snipped-for-privacy@srn.invalid

There, that'll do it for a while :-)

Never been able to get a killfile to work as I ca'nt spill.

Cheers, Simon

But don't bother with the masons' museum - it is deathly dull. Unless you are involved in that kind of thing, I suppose.

Appreciate what your saying ;-) but have a wander round one or a cemetry and look at the headstones. Some really beautiful polished stone. same as a lot of facing stone on buildings - so back to OT with old railway stations.

cheers, Simon

Surkly there is no such word as "capitalise"?

Paul

Yet another attentive and dliligent pupil in their school English class. See:

St Pancras Station. Forget the new shed at the country end and enjoy the original station.

LOL :-) (Not sure if that counts as grammatically correct English!)