A Bushey student of Kohinoor Avenue, was fined £1 for disorderly behaviour on Wednesday. He was said to have sat down on the edge of a westbound platform at St James’s Park underground station and “dangled his legs over the track while reading a newspaper.”

The student pleaded guilty, saying he did it for a joke.

[From the Watford Observer of April 13, 1951]

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