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round the north we go: April 2015

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Sunday, 26 April 2015. An Englishman In New York. It's been very quiet round here this month. The first reason for this is I was ill in the first bit of April, meaning a trip to Leeds had to be abandoned. (It was actually the second time circumstances meant I couldn't visit Cross Gates, making me wonder if someone's trying to tell me something). If this sort of thing is of no interest to you, you probably should go away until about mid-May. Sorry. Monday, 6 April 2015. Why, give them a make over! First M...

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To the end of the line: Piccadilly Line: South Kensington - Acton Town

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To the end of the line. Journeys round London Underground stations. 30 December, 2007. Piccadilly Line: South Kensington - Acton Town. You begin to shake off the tourists on this stretch of the Piccadilly. You also shake off the ground itself. Is worth loitering in awhile, in order to check out the art installations that take up the whole of the disused platorm 4. Anybody with little English and even less patience will have a torrid time at Earl's Court. A brilliantly sprawling junction with bits of the ...

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To the end of the line: Aldwych, then and now

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To the end of the line. Journeys round London Underground stations. 26 September, 2010. Aldwych, then and now. I'd always assumed this blog had settled into a kind of permanent siding when I ticked off the last London Underground station on the map back in January 2009. Then came the trip around the Overground earlier this year, which I decided to write up as a kind of epilogue. Now I have an epilogue to that epilogue, in the shape of a visit to the disused Underground station of Aldwych. We had to file ...

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To the end of the line: June 2010

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To the end of the line. Journeys round London Underground stations. 02 June, 2010. Gospel Oak to. Gospel Oak: An overland circumnavigation. When I laid this blog to rest at the start of last year I tried to make it sound and feel as final as possible, partly for melodramatic reasons but partly to dissuade me of any temptation to keep returning and adding indulgent epilogues or self-defeating updates. But I saw this as an opportunity, not an obstacle, and besides I hadn't been on one of the spruce new Ove...

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To the end of the line: September 2010

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To the end of the line. Journeys round London Underground stations. 26 September, 2010. Aldwych, then and now. I'd always assumed this blog had settled into a kind of permanent siding when I ticked off the last London Underground station on the map back in January 2009. Then came the trip around the Overground earlier this year, which I decided to write up as a kind of epilogue. Now I have an epilogue to that epilogue, in the shape of a visit to the disused Underground station of Aldwych. We had to file ...

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To the end of the line: District Line: Kensington (Olympia) - Edgware Road

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To the end of the line. Journeys round London Underground stations. 29 November, 2008. District Line: Kensington (Olympia) - Edgware Road. I confess I found this leg of the journey to feel more like a tidying-up exercise than anything more profound. Best to treat Earl's Court. These have undoubted novelty value, but they don't have any charm - unlike their predecessors, which were only recently replaced, and for no reason whatsoever. For a long time Kensington (Olympia). Was associated in my mind with a ...

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To the end of the line: District Line: Aldgate East - Westminster

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To the end of the line. Journeys round London Underground stations. 01 November, 2008. District Line: Aldgate East - Westminster. Welcome to another very old, very confusing slice of the Underground. Ostensibly there's nothing confusing about it at all. It is a straight line. It has no branches or curious offshoots. It doesn't even have that many interchanges. It is, however, indisputably old. Very very old. There's been a station on the site of Tower Hill. Mark Lane became Tower Hill in 1946, a year bef...

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To the end of the line: District Line: Barking - Aldgate East

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To the end of the line. Journeys round London Underground stations. 16 September, 2008. District Line: Barking - Aldgate East. West of Barking the District Line ages by around 20 years. Electric services first came this way in 1908, along tracks that had been around since - incredibly - 1854. You can see vague traces of Victorian designs all along this stretch of the line, Upton Park. Original buildings dating from 1877) being a good example. Now that's the kind of information this blog needs more of.

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To the end of the line: The Circle Line

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To the end of the line. Journeys round London Underground stations. 11 January, 2009. How to write about a line that doesn't exist, but whose stations you have - to a man - nonetheless visited? St James's Park-Gloucester Road. High Street Kensington-Edgware Road. If I find I have to visit somewhere within, what for fares purposes, is called Zone 1, I'd rather get off at one of the boundary stations and simply walk the rest of the way. That's not to say I never use the Circle Line. If you want to move...