When your train's on time you can smile, smile, smile
But the ELL trains are always late by a mile
There are more crappy stations than there really oughta
And the only decent one's called Canada Water [see what I did there?]
I've completely lost the thread of this final verse
But it doesn't really matter cos I'm dying of thirst
So we'll go down the pub and we'll all raise a glass
To the East London Line - what a bunch of arse!
Chorus etc etc ad infinitum
One thing only do I know, and that is that I know nothing - Socrates.
Champion of bugger all, 2004 to 2025
Member of sweet FA
And the only decent one's called Canada Water [see what I did there?]
Oh the fun nights I spend waiting at Canada Water for an ELL train down to New Cross Gate to pick up my car when I don't park it at North Greenwich. Seeing the train waiting at Rotherhithe never helps.
Think I will miss Shoreditch in some ways, it was the last station I visited on the system gaving me a personal best of 17 years and 3 weeks! Going to make a better attempt this year.
I love the line about the trains smelling like wee... reminds me very much of the Chesham - Chalfont shuttle!
I think it would be so cool if we all took portable instruments (acoustic guitar, battery-powered keyboard etc) and actually started playing the song as soon as the train pulls out of Shoreditch.
How awesome would that be? It would be a really great way to "send off" Shoreditch station.
One other thing that will not be missed is the two or three minutes of confusion when all the signs are unlocked and swapped round at Whitechapel when the Shoreditch trains start running. Usually several people sit on the Shoreditch platform waiting to go south and miss the trains leaving from the other platform. I think one of the station assistants has to go round asking everybody where they want to go to make sure they are on the right platform.
