This article from BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28352045 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28352045 says "Telling people how to walk is simply not Bri

This article from BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28352045 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28352045 says "Telling people how to walk is simply not British" and I can anecdotally confirm there is no observed rule in London. A bloke once told me somewhat angrily "on the left in England mate", but he must be telling that to hundreds of English people daily. Signs in corridors in stations can say either "keep left" or "keep right" depending on what's more convenient for corridor layout. Escalators are always stand right, walk left. (Out of interest and because the article also mentions it, there is no concept of jaywalking in England and I've read that it is not in any way illegal for pedestrians to cross against a red light. However drivers rarely defer to pedestrians even at marked crossings.) (Out of further interest, in Paris the suburban trains use left-hand running like the national network, but the metro runs on the right.)