Tankman
31-08-2009, 09:39 PM
The truth can now be told: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight!
It all began one lonely night! A man to tired to sleep, a few to many beers, a camera for a friend, an empty platform, and the last train home:confused: As the train slowed to a halt, the doors opened, and in I stepped.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/LONDON%20TRANSPORT%20MUSEUM%20ACTON/100_0469.jpg
Sitting down into an empty carriage, a fuzzled speaker, said "mind the doors" as they closed shut.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/024.jpg
We moved off into the tunnel, a 'World within a World' a voice over the speaker spoke again! "next stop, "Hell"
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/021.jpg
As the train slowed to a stop, the doors opened and out I stepped, darkness all around, except for a dim light, next to a signal.
The train lingered for a few seconds, then the doors closed and it left me!
Alone in a tunnel of darkness!
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/016.jpg
I scurried away into a side tunnel like a rat! A steep flight of stairs ahead of me! Darkness such, the like I have never encountered before. Tunnels that had not seen human presence for a long time:thumb
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/009.jpg
I had no way of knowing where I was going, only that I was going somewhere:confused: The darkness calling me on, the sounds down here are weird, my mind begins to play tricks on me:confused: Was that someone up ahead?
A white haze appears to be levitating? I get goose bumps, What am I doing down here???
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/014.jpg
I soon come across a gigantic hole, with a catwalk across it!
I stop and shine my torch down, its the running line, soon the P/Way, gangs will be down here, along with the 'Fluffer's'.
The night is only just beginning, and I must press on into the unknown tunnels that lay ahead, unseen, but not silent!
I am already covered in black grime from the walls that surround me, the Underground is not a clean place outside the stations.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/013.jpg
I come across another hole, with a catwalk across! but this time a ladder descends into a lit area below me, a defunct closed tube line.
I descend the ladder........
Part 2 to follow:thumb
It all began one lonely night! A man to tired to sleep, a few to many beers, a camera for a friend, an empty platform, and the last train home:confused: As the train slowed to a halt, the doors opened, and in I stepped.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/LONDON%20TRANSPORT%20MUSEUM%20ACTON/100_0469.jpg
Sitting down into an empty carriage, a fuzzled speaker, said "mind the doors" as they closed shut.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/024.jpg
We moved off into the tunnel, a 'World within a World' a voice over the speaker spoke again! "next stop, "Hell"
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/021.jpg
As the train slowed to a stop, the doors opened and out I stepped, darkness all around, except for a dim light, next to a signal.
The train lingered for a few seconds, then the doors closed and it left me!
Alone in a tunnel of darkness!
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/016.jpg
I scurried away into a side tunnel like a rat! A steep flight of stairs ahead of me! Darkness such, the like I have never encountered before. Tunnels that had not seen human presence for a long time:thumb
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/009.jpg
I had no way of knowing where I was going, only that I was going somewhere:confused: The darkness calling me on, the sounds down here are weird, my mind begins to play tricks on me:confused: Was that someone up ahead?
A white haze appears to be levitating? I get goose bumps, What am I doing down here???
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/014.jpg
I soon come across a gigantic hole, with a catwalk across it!
I stop and shine my torch down, its the running line, soon the P/Way, gangs will be down here, along with the 'Fluffer's'.
The night is only just beginning, and I must press on into the unknown tunnels that lay ahead, unseen, but not silent!
I am already covered in black grime from the walls that surround me, the Underground is not a clean place outside the stations.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii38/tankman_2008/CLAPHAM%20NORTH%20DEEP%20SHELTER/EUSTON%20UNDERGROUND%20STATION/013.jpg
I come across another hole, with a catwalk across! but this time a ladder descends into a lit area below me, a defunct closed tube line.
I descend the ladder........
Part 2 to follow:thumb