3 ms·
I had to take this line (Moorgate to Enfield from platform 9) during a strike once, and it was the creepiest experience: across all carriages, there was about t
by barrkel 8y ago
I had to take this line (Moorgate to Enfield from platform 9) during a strike once, and it was the creepiest experience: across all carriages, there was about two non-white people. For a city as diverse as London, this is pretty unusual. It made the train look like some kind of white flight express.
- lmm 8y agoHow are you defining "white"? That line serves a number of Greek/Turkish areas (through Harringey in particular). Enfield proper is indeed quite a white area, though I don't think anyone would see it as an aspirational leafy suburb.
- laumars 8y agoLondon has loads of pockets of areas where diversity is low. Not just white folks, but every ethnicity and religious background will have a pocket of low diversity in London. I’m not saying it’s right, but it does happen.
- twic 8y agoThe services on that line terminate well outside London - distinctly non-urban dormitory towns like Stevenage, Welwyn, Letchworth, etc. A lot of the passengers are commuters from those towns.
- Lio 8y agoOutside of London most of the country is white.[1] If you never leave London it’s easy to forget that and how fast the ethnic make up of the capital has changed. [1] https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/british-population/national-and-regional-populations/regional-ethnic-diversity/latest# https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/british-p...