Railton Rd

[mccliche]

Aye that's the one. We seem to have managed to divert the topic away from the relative merits of Railton and Josephine with a good conspiracy theory!

that could almost be a conspiracy in itself?

 

[Bob]

Couldn't agree more. I normally spend my cycle along that bit either battling against the constant headwind or mulling over a conversation I once had with a taxi driver who insisted that the old BT on the left houses a duplicate set of listening / satelite devices for the MI6... admittedly it does look suspiciously empty until you see the top floors.

It's a well known rumour that it's connected by tunnels.

I think that the local councillors have been running a campaign to get BT to tidy it up (since it does look horrible).

 

[snowy_again]

MI6 and Keybridge House? That I can quite imagine.

MI6 does have a suspiciously large amount of booze delivered every week, which I guess means their staff are banned from drinking locally (not that there's much choice round there).

 

[jayrayner]

When you can't get to your front door cause Jay Rayner has parked his whopping great big retro Merc in the road again, you start to realise you should have bought a house there a few years earlier.

eta - me cannae spell the Rayner's name properly.

Not wanting to be overly touchy or anything - but I drive a bloody Volvo.

 

[tarannau]

Heh. I reckon he only did it draw you out Rayner.

You should have heard the outrage when someone accused Will Self of driving a Ford Mondeo...

 

[co-op]

MI6 does have a suspiciously large amount of booze delivered every week, which I guess means their staff are banned from drinking locally (not that there's much choice round there).

One of them got pissed up after work and left a laptop full of classified information at Rebartos on South Lambeth Rd from where it was <ahem> liberated, leading to major embarassment all round - a few years back.

 

[colacubes]

Not wanting to be overly touchy or anything - but I drive a bloody Volvo.

((jayrayner))

 

[snowy_again]

Not wanting to be overly touchy or anything - but I drive a bloody Volvo.

Haha, my apologies Jay!

(I've been wracking my brain for some medium-rare volvo pun, but my brain's not up to it today).

 

[Ms T]

Not wanting to be overly touchy or anything - but I drive a bloody Volvo.

I've lived just off Railton Road for four years now and I really like it there. You have the best of both worlds, as you're half-way between Brixton and Herne Hill. We nearly bought a house off Josephine Avenue, and I'm glad we didn't, as I've heard lots of stories of people being mugged there.

Mind you, hendo did get mugged on Railton Rd a few years back, and we helped someone last year who was mugged at gunpoint, so it's not a bed of roses.

 

[Manmasi]

Nearly a week, and it's all good. I love the short walk to tube and it 'feels' same as anywhere else I've lived in Brickers, except for off Josephine, where yes I got really nervous walking home alone at night!

 

[OpalFruit]

I've lived just off Railton rd and just off Josephine Avenue, and preferred just off Railton. easy walk to Herne hHll and Brockwell Park, nicer walk into Brixton with good places naturally en route like Lounge, Wholefoods and Diverse. Felt safer at night.
BUT the roads off Josephine (Leander / Helix / Appach etc) are much quieter for traffic than Railton or the interchanges with Railton. You can hear trains from most of the Railton Rd area, too. And get a lot of traffic from the depot on Shakespeare rd.