Am I getting on your nerves yet?

[lavvyan]

Dearest Londoners and London-knowledgeables on my f-list

Comments

[jimaine42]

Real "lockboxes" don't exist at London train-stations. You can leave your luggage for 6 quid a piece at luggage consignment, but just shoving it in a locker for 2 Euros/24h like we do here in good ol' Dschörmäni...nope. Facilities like that exist at major stations like Paddington, Waterloo, Victoria and Liverpool Street Station in my experience. But at simple tube stations, nothing at all.

[trobadora]

This, exactly. (Except that it's 8 quid, I think.) No lockers at stations at all.

A right pain, I tell you. :(

[jimaine42]

WORD. If you happen to shop a bit more and still have, like, three hours to kill before you head to the airport, you are f***ed luggage-wise. I hate it. Would it kill them to have lockers? Probably went out of fashion along with trash-cans and the f***ing IRA....

"Schließfach" is' vermutlich ein Unwort beim MI5....

[trobadora]

Yeah, you can sort of see where they're coming from, but there just aren't any real alternatives. HAAAAATE. (And trying to find a rubbish bin anywhere near a tube station is ... something else. *g*)

[jimaine42]

*nods* I left my sizable bag and rucksack at a pub near Liverpool Street Station once because I didn't want to pay through the nose for two pieces of luggage. If you stay long enough to drink a pint and happen to look trustworthy enough, a pub owner might show you kindness.:-))

[lavvyan]

Ah. That's really too bad, now I'll have to find a whole new plot device.

How common are those skips Sherlock keeps rooting through?

[temaris]

Not that common, and usually full. Receptacles that could conceal a bomb are ... discouraged. Rubbish bins, skips, unmanned left luggage facilities, toilet cisterns (usually concealed behind plasterboard)... Suspicious parked cars. Luggage just left on a platform. Boxes of books left outside a building (seriously, a courier delivered a pallet of books to the wrong entry to our building and the bomb squad turned up about three hours later. Do not underestimate how even back streets are monitored.)

[xandutch]

I think you have all the pertinent information now, but just to summarize: no lockers, but at the train stations (which usually connect with tube stations) there's left luggage places where you pay 8 quid per item for 24 hours or less. The attendant takes it in after it's been through the scanner and gives you a ticket to retrieve it. It's bloody expensive!

[lavvyan]

Scanner! Well, that makes the whole thing completely unworkable, then. *sighs*

Thank you!

[lavvyan]

Not really, no. The scanner kind of makes the whole plot crashing down.

As I already asked Penny above: how common are skips, then? I hadn't really come across the concept before BBC's Sherlock.

I know, you already have your answer, but...

[berlinghoff79]

those left luggage thingies suck soooo much. Expensive, if you are really 'lucky' you have to wait an hour or longer cause each piece of luggage is scanned before put into storage, there aren't that many llts in London, ...

Re: I know, you already have your answer, but...

[lavvyan]

Meh. I'll have to come up with something else then. Or sulk. Sulking works, too. ;)

Re: I know, you already have your answer, but...

[berlinghoff79]

Sulking is always good. I'll help.

Re: I know, you already have your answer, but...

[lavvyan]

Did you have a bad day? *cuddles*