In my impression, there is only one subway exit in Greenwich in southeast London. The station is called Cutty Sark. This is a light subway station from the Docklands Light Rail Bank Station to the Lewisham Line because it is close to the Cutty Sark in the Greenwich Maritime Distr

Text︱Ji Shuoming

In my impression, there is only one subway exit in Greenwich in southeast London. The station is called Cutty Sark, which is the one from Docklands Light Rail (DLR) Bank Station to Lewisham Online. A light tube station named after its proximity to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich-on-Sea.

The platform is very small. I remember that Cutty Sark Station has two carriages and cannot stop due to the heritage of the street level. Therefore, the subway only allowed three-car trains to stop at the station. After arriving at the station, the doors of the first and last car of each train would not be opened. Passengers were notified on the train that they needed to go to the middle car of the train to leave the train. After getting off the train, it was quite interesting to see that there was another car inside the black hole at the end of the train.

What is very special is that there is no gate at this station. I remember that when I went to Windsor Castle , there was no exit gate at that station. It turns out that many station entrances and exits in British stations are completely open. But this does not mean that fare evasion can be indulged. There is a ticket swiping machine next to the entrance and exit. Passengers who are leaving or entering the station must go and swipe their tickets. I also watched others brush it, and also went to brush it. There must be a reason for everyone to do this, and you are right to follow them. This is called doing as the Romans do. Later I learned that we must not ignore or forget.

You think you can skip it, but if you encounter a ticket checker, you will be fined heavily. This is an honest society where everything depends on self-awareness, but if you dare to take risks, you will be taught a lesson.

When we walked out of the station, we saw a large sailing ship in the distance, just like we were in Hung Hom in Hong Kong. Inside the big ship was the commercial center. I thought this ship was just a gimmick or a gimmick, but it actually had a commercial purpose.

Actually not. It turns out that Cutty Sark has a background. It is the name of a ship. The Cutty Sark, also known as the Shortshirt, the Christick, etc., is the true form of one of the oldest surviving clipper sailing ships. Cutty Sark is the last ship built in Britain. It is a British 3-masted fast motor sailing ship. It is 64.7 meters long and is also the fastest ship. Since then, sailing ships have been replaced by steam-powered ships. The Cutty Sark is already a museum. It tells history to the world with its own story.

After the Suez Canal was opened in about 500 BC, steam-powered ships could reach China faster. For a few years the Cutty Sark spent a few years transporting tea and was transferred to Australia to transport wool.

On the transnational ocean route, the Cutty Sark traveled for nearly ten years and made British history. Steam-powered ships were constantly updated and slowly reached Australia, replacing sailing ships. In 1895, the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co bought Cutty Sark, renamed it Ferreira and continued to engage in freight transport.

In 1922, captain Wilfred Bowman bought her and transferred her to Falmouth in Cornwall for training. After the death of the old captain, she was transferred to Thames Nautical Training College as a training ship. In 1954, she officially became a museum exhibition ship.

The Cutty Sark was built in Scotland, England in 1869. At that time, the British sea power was the most powerful. The ship was mainly used for tea trade. At that time, the British upper class particularly liked Chinese tea, silk, porcelain and other products, but the Chinese at that time did not like British products. There was nothing attractive about British products. As a result, the trade deficit between Britain and China increased sharply, and gold and silver continued to flow into China. British businessmen were unwilling to accept the opium produced in India and exchanged it for Chinese tea. As China began to ban smoking, it directly and indirectly led to the outbreak of the Sino-British Opium War.

It is said that when the Sino-British tea trade was at its peak, 90% of the entire cabin of the Cutty Sark was filled with gold and silver, which were then exchanged for tea in China. It was very crazy. The cabin part reproduces the scene of stacking tea cargo at that time, and you can also see some photos and short stories written in Chinese. It turns out that tea was introduced to the UK 350 years ago. At that time, Mrs. Charles II made tea drinking a fashionable activity among the British upper class, and it became widely popular. Britain does not produce tea, but the British love to drink tea, and they are the kind of tea that all people drink. It is said that the average amount of tea drank by the British ranks third in the world.

British tea is all imported, including tea from China and imported from former colonies, such as black tea produced in Darjeeling in India. But as far as the brand itself is concerned, it is said that the most well-known and largest tea brand in the world is Lipton (Lipton), which comes from the UK.

Cutty Sark has been burned twice: first on May 21, 2007, and again on October 19, 2014.

There is a British brand of Cutty Sark whiskey. The name of this whiskey comes from this ship. Sold on JD.com, the Chinese name "Shunfeng" (Cutty Sark) is a Scotch blended whiskey. Its refreshing citrus aroma is refreshing and complements the sailboat on the label. The Chinese version of Shunfeng also makes sense.

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