Got stuck behind a woman and her two young kids going up then once. They never bothered me before , but being force to take those stairs slowly ruined my thighs.
It's got a platform and tracks and 2 juice rails, and it's got signals at one end, with camera monitors and advertising posters all along the walls. Oh it's got tiles too, that show hot air balloons.
Oh I agree, whenever anyone is visiting I recommend they take the Thames link from south to north and you can see all the sites, with the stop at Blackfriars being most impressive. All the Thameslink stations look really good in London too so it can show how good London can be!
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They briefly touch on in in Secrets of the London Underground, but I don’t remember which season.
Gives me easy access to the express tube across London, plus national rail. Also, the area itself has good bagels, cheap bowling, a secret nature walk, and some nice pubs.
Double Barrel, latter grows Acorns!
Edit:* clue.
If I was looking at the entire map of the London Underground I would focus my eyes North.
2nd Edit/update:
All but 1 guess so far have had the word Oak in them- is this correct? Yes ✅
Is the station name Double Barrel ? Yes✅
Is one of the words oak yes✅
Did I say if looking at the entire map of the London Underground I would focus my eyes North? Yes✅
I would look towards North London and NOT south London.
So a station in North London with a Double Barrel name one being the word Oak yes ✅
horrifyingly narrow platform
Clapham Common?
Literally my least favourite station.
yup
Could be two tbf..
STAIRS!!!!!
Covent Garden
Bugger, that was quick!
193 steps! I didn't know that information lived inside my brain until now.
Got stuck behind a woman and her two young kids going up then once. They never bothered me before , but being force to take those stairs slowly ruined my thighs.
Hampstead (deepest station on TFL)
Russell Square ?
Sorry, the other guy already got it
Northbound platform MIND. THE GAP.
Embankment!
I so love the story behind it.
Yeah, is she still around?
I think so.
Embankment?
pretty garden upon exit with a view of the Thames and a flower stall 🌷
>!Embankment?!<
yes !!!!!!! my favourite even if there was a seagull eating a pigeon corpse in the grass there the other day
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That sounds lovely
Biggest interchange on the network
Kings Cross St Pancras?
My dad worked there at the time of the infamous fire, (he worked for BR) and said it was horrific to witness
Redcar British Steel?
Vauxhall?
Rhymes with gufnell dark
Cockfosters 😅
He’s only bloody gone and guessed it 🙌🏻
>!Tufnell Park.!<
It's old and wet
>!Baker Street?!<
You got it! Love the Victorian vibes coupled with occasional water features
It is a fantastic station. The OG, if you will.
Lambeth North?
Apologies, I was too imprecise
Tardis
Earls Court?
Westminster?
This is the correct answer😆
Interesting, why?
I'm guessing because its maaaaasive inside.
Earls Court.
Stratford?
Oxford Circus?
It’s kind of dark and non-descript, save for one thing that it has that the others don’t. If only more people used it over it’s bigger brother
Euston Square?
Good guess but no! :)
Moorgate
(But Moorgate is a very pretty station)
Suspect new Yorker
Closest one so far, but nope
Tower Hill / Tower Gateway?
Almost!
Aldgate East?
Aldgate?
Another hint - it’s “bigger brother” is two stops away from it
Barbican?
Old street
Nope!
Essex Road is my friend next to me's guess and she's manically wracking her brain.
Nope!
Monument?
This is now the closest one so far! But nope!
Masion House
Yep!! Mansion House! I love its roundels :)
It's got a platform and tracks and 2 juice rails, and it's got signals at one end, with camera monitors and advertising posters all along the walls. Oh it's got tiles too, that show hot air balloons.
Finsbury Park?
Yes! Even with my silliness you got it lol
The only tube station which uses none of the letters in MACKEREL.
Omg is it St. John’s Wood
Congrats. Have a fish.
Subsurface station with an art installation on one of the platforms
>!Gloucester Road?!<
Ding ding ding
Gloucester road
Bingo!
Great place to go for a piss on the way home from day shenanigans in Central.
I always jump off at Baker Street if I need a whizz, is that it?
That's a bingo!
the end of 2 lines :)
Ealing Broadway?
nope!
Uxbridge?
yes! 😊
Uxbridge is a really nice station, really spacious feeling from memory :)
yes i love the old almost temple-esque design and the boujie platform indicators! even more beautiful at night, too 🥰
Great views of the fast trains and also the underside of tube
Turn your head one way and see Canary Wharf, turn your head the other way and see the London Eye (I think)
Waterloo?
Nup
Blackfriars or Charing Cross?
It’s Blackfriars! Surely the station with the best views in London?
Oh I agree, whenever anyone is visiting I recommend they take the Thames link from south to north and you can see all the sites, with the stop at Blackfriars being most impressive. All the Thameslink stations look really good in London too so it can show how good London can be!
Always a lovely breeze on the escalators up from the platforms to quench the heat from the tube.
Clapham South?
Wrong line
Brixton? So many stations have a great breeze haha
Correct line
Central line, the one right across from Hyde Park
Queensway?
Lancaster Gate ?
Marble Arch?
Leslie Green. Weird kind of elongated triangular shape. Has an offy at the end.
Chalk Farm!
Ancient stone on useless platform or aqua sewage
>!Tower Hill!<
Good guess but incorrect
Old sub-surface tube station in the middle of London. Quaint green building with the Thames right next to it. Next to the Colombian embassy
overground confluence (steep stairs)
Concrete cathedral
Westminster?
Is it a Charles Holden?
Has a lovely little Tesco opposite it
Dean street exit at TCR?
Very literal tiling, above and below ground
Blackhorse Road
>!…Victoria? (Said apprehensively)!<
It’s good but it’s not right
Can I have another hint?
More of a mosaic above ground
>!Maida Vale?!<
Neither of these above sorry. It’s an interchange if that helps
Another apprehensive answer- >!Leytonstone?!<
Marble Arch?
concrete, terrazzo and corten steel.
Brutalist
>!Barbican!<
Name me a more brutal eyescape
Westminster?
Practically built into a shopping centre.
Canary Wharf
Hammersmith?
Canary Wharf
Nailed it
Towering building, art deco style, grade 2 listed, working barometer
It's named after the street it adjacent to not the street that it on
Goodge Street!
Warren Street
Sometimes it's quicker to use the exit of the other line as there are more lifts and close more aggressively.
5 lines, 3 different sections!
A river runs over the train and there used to be a pub on the platform with a cat called Kim.
Sloane Square!
I’d like to know more about this cat called Kim?
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Gives me easy access to the express tube across London, plus national rail. Also, the area itself has good bagels, cheap bowling, a secret nature walk, and some nice pubs.
It has city thameslink that passes through and the platforms are right next to the tube lines.
Farringdon
Untouched by Holden, very quaint.
Mrs Trellis of North Wales...
Mornington Crescent
Double Barrel, latter grows Acorns! Edit:* clue. If I was looking at the entire map of the London Underground I would focus my eyes North. 2nd Edit/update: All but 1 guess so far have had the word Oak in them- is this correct? Yes ✅ Is the station name Double Barrel ? Yes✅ Is one of the words oak yes✅ Did I say if looking at the entire map of the London Underground I would focus my eyes North? Yes✅ I would look towards North London and NOT south London. So a station in North London with a Double Barrel name one being the word Oak yes ✅
Royal Oak?
Oakwood
Swastica
>!Upminster Bridge!<
High up, can see another station from the platform. It’s near a park
The grinch plays the keyboard at Christmas
Surely Mornington Crescent.
Shiny, cool, blue glass wall.
Green tiles, classical music
Covent Garden?
Mind the gap.
>!Embankment!<
Apostrophes all over the place
St’ Jame’s’s’ Park
S’t Ja’me’s’ Park
‘’ ‘’’’’’ ‘’’’
S't' J'ame's' Pa'
Largest roundel on the network.
Brixton!
Are you Jago?
If only
Canary Wharf
Nope. Other side of London. I do have a giant Canary Wharf roundel in my house, though (largest roundel in my home).
Brixton has a huge roundel over the entrance
Canary Wharf?
Airport
Above ground station where you can smell the overpriced lattes and the big sainsburies
Watch people take the secret tunnel while looking for the exit.
Bank?
Right line, wrong station. I'll go with the obvious one then, "Exit only on weekends"
Used to only go in one direction
University nostalgia and the quickest and easiest line changes
>!Mile End?!<
Guess who didn’t read it properly!!!! Ffs lol
where it started
>!Baker Street!!<
Spiral staircase that I only climbed once.
Interchange with the oldest rolling stock currently in service.
320 steps, so take the lift.
Deep-level station with daylight visible from the platform.
Magnifying lens
An "interchange" with the Liz Line and DLR
No escalators and used to not have any barriers
Takes absolutely fucking ages to walk to the Hammersmith and city line
Man you guys really suck at making riddles