Love and carriage Underground

Will Gull and Katie Crammer at beautiful South Woodford

The London Tube system is wrongly thought of as a sterile zone for personal interaction but the Greater London transport map is not called “London Connections” for nothing! Sometimes, on a crowded, sweaty jolting Tube train the personal interaction with an Aussie life support system for an armpit is unwanted but at other times, at those special other times eyes meet across the carriage. For undoubtedly the Underground joins up London and sometimes its claustrophobia facilitates people watching. Maeve Binchy’s novels mine the rich seam of meeting on the Underground. Poems on the Underground acts as a catalyst for romantic interludes and well, people have a tradition of making their own arrangements. So, stations and trains are places of memory and associations, happy and unhappy, for many living and working in London.

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2008/06/poems-on-underground.html

So in the latest wizz of Cupid’s arrow two people who fell in love on the Underground have returned to the station where they got engaged as a married couple. Love is back on track for newlyweds at South Woodford station. A groom and his young bride returned to South Woodford Tube station in their wedding attire to let staff know they had just got married the day before (7 August) and to thank them.


The Love train

In December 2006 Will Gull and Katie Crammer looked across a crowded Tube carriage, passed each other a note, and fell in love. They began to chat and when they arrived at South Woodford Station they decided to go for a drink in a nearby wine bar, Switch.

Five years ago Mr Gull, then 30, glanced across the carriage and was stunned by Ms Crammer, then 27. He slipped her a note - "I think you are beautiful, from Will," with his mobile number - and she passed back the reply: "You're not so bad yourself, from Katie", also with her number.


Stefanie Schmiedel and Robert Gray’s environmentally friendly wedding travelling by Tube in 2008.

For the next few weeks the pair made calls and texts to each other, but it nearly all went wrong because incredibly they both lost their phones! Luckily they remembered the notes on which they had written their numbers and they got in contact with each other and have been inseparable every since.

Three years after they met Will treated Katie to a birthday meal at the Ivy. They travelled home on the Central line, and when they arrived at South Woodford Will told Katie she must get off because her birthday present was there. He then got down on one knee and proposed to her in front of commuters and station staff.



Katie, from Buckhurst Hill, said: "But for that fateful Tube journey I might never have met Will, fallen in love and married him, so I am very grateful to London Underground. The Central line and South Woodford station where Will proposed might not seem romantic to other people but they are special to me." She added: "Who would ever think an Oyster card would be such an aphrodisiac?" Who indeed!

For more Tube romance (sic) see;

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2008/07/do-you-take-this-tube.html