Girl on the Underground

After the the performance finished I caught the train home from Wimbledon station, at the end of a branch of the District Line.

I was going to the New Wimbledon Theatre to see a production of An Inspector Calls, so after work I hopped on a Northern Line train and got off at South Wimbledon. Wimbledon had the air of a Victorian market town, and for some reason really reminded me of Cumbria.

King’s Cross St. Pancras - underground station serving both King’s Cross, gateway to the North, and St. Pancras, Eurostar terminal (and also gateway to the East Midlands, as I found out when I lived in Sheffield). King’s Cross has recently been refurbished, which I’m glad about as I use it quite a lot to go home and see family. On this occasion I was coming back from a week up North, during which time I attended my cousin’s wedding and went to the Steps reunion concert.

This is Kentish Town on the Northern line. It seemed like a nice area, but I wasn’t here for a particularly exciting reason - I was here to pick up a parcel.

Hainault was the final station I attended on that occasion. There wasn’t a lot to see; it seemed very suburban.

I didn’t look around Fairlop much, as there wasn’t all that much to see.

Barkingside seemed like a pleasant area - it was quiet and rather village-like.

This is Newbury Park station. Not a lot to say about this one.

Here’s the inside of Gants Hill station - it’s pretty impressive.

I really liked Gants Hill station. This is the one that, on the inside, resembles the Moscow Metro, with an arched roof and lamps. Apparently this is because the government members responsible for transport in the 1930s advised Stalin on the development of his own Metro.