From: "H.Overal" <jumbo@htc.net>

My sister, now a Canadian, has just introduced me to your site. I was born and raised in Croydon, came to the U.S. in 1959. How I remember the 630 and 654 lines - used them every day for about 15 years. I also travelled a lot on the #42 tram that ran through Thornton Heath [or 'Forteneef' as the great unwashed called it]. I still remember a portion of a schoolboy poem that appeared in the school magazine about 1944:

O God! I'll take a 42
And come back, Thornton Heath, to you
And smell the soft, decaying, rotten,
Decomposing, long forgotten
Cabbages thrown down in the gutter,
And listen to the children utter
Rude words, as through the live-long day
Around the Static Watertanks they'd play

Thank you for a truely wonderful site - Henry Overal