As a South London child, going on the Tube was a treat - I used to read the station names on the Northern Line map and believed that space rockets took off from Euston.
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- As a child i was under the impression that the huge power station chimneys were cloud makers.— scruffyoik
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn
- I was told as a young child that if I didn't smile going past the police station, I wouldbe arrested.Anon
- When I was little, I used to believe that airplanes took off like rockets.— Edene
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- I used to wonder that if man wanted to reach the stars in rockets, why didn't he just go up at night? Duh!!!— albinoavenger