MIDNIGHT CONGESTION
PEOPLE TRAMP HOME
UNPRECEDENTED TRAFFIC BLOCKS
(Received May 3, 9.10 a.m.) !/ ■- -LONDON. May 2. . The presence of Cup.tie crowds, combined with the usual crush of Londoners, led to remarkable scenes - in London at midnight. : The crowds, relying on the tube railways for their return home, in th« absence of buses, found'the stations already blocked and the trains packed, and'many who were stranded on the platforms when the last' trains departed sought taxis in. vain, these being all engaged. Thousands of people had a long tramp*home. ~ , '.-...■ , > All who possessed cars used them to go to the theatres, resulting, in unprecedented traffic blocks when the audiences poured out into the streets again.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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