NEW QUEUEING RECORDS IN LONDON
Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, July 26. With the temperature everywhere ahove 80 degrees, Londoners today made new records in queueing. Fifty thousand people moved at the rate of half a mile a-n hour in a two-mile six-deep queue to catch trains from Victoria station to the coast and the Continental ferry services. Another 50,000 . left London from Waterloo wnere during the night 3500 people haa to sleep on platforms to win priority in the first trains early this morning. The queue at Paddington was one mile long while Liverpool Street reported the biggest crowds in the history of the station. The Air Ministry predicted very hot weather.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 July 1947, Page 5
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