126. Queen's Park

Thursday 2nd June 3.15pm

I'd heard of the football team that take their name from the area but if you'd asked me to find it on a map I'd be clueless. Turns out it in north-west London!

The odd thing about the platform was that all the roundels were small and above head height, which explains the slightly weird picture. There might have been platform sharing going on, or perhaps someone just went mad when they put them up? The station itself is so unremarkable I remember nothing about it!

Wikipedia entry here.

125. Bounds Green

Saturday 21st May 6.15pm

This is one of those stations that's built into a row of shops and on a corner, so you don't notice it until you're right on top of it, and then forget to step back and take a look at what it looks like on the outside.

It's got a nice pair of escalators in a curved tunnel going down to the platforms, and as it was really quiet, and I was confused about which platform I wanted, I managed to take a picture of it:

Wikipedia entry here.

124. Arnos Grove

Saturday 21st May 5.50pm

I like that picture because it's not often I've taken one with a train in it, let alone one that's moving.

I knew of the area this station is in as it gets a mention in a song by Saint Etienne, which makes me think it has a faded glamour about it but the reality is a residential area on the North Circular of which the Tube station is a high point. It's on the extension to the Picadilly line, which is where things got architecturally more interesting as they were less constricted by space than in the centre of the city, so the above ground part of this station is a huge, beautiful cylinder, although the pictures hardly do it justice:

Wikipedia entry here.

123. East Finchley

Saturday 2nd April 5.30pm

The most interesting of the Finchley stations, probably because it's near the shops and is a lot less suburban. It's got a bigger, more interesting, station building, and doesn't have a footbridge to the platforms - instead the line is elevated and there are passages and stairs underneath it with signs like this:

Wikipedia entry here.

122. Finchley Central

Saturday 2nd April 4.50pm

At this point I began to realise that there's a lot of Finchley and it's all quite similar, although I'm sure the locals wouldn't thank me for saying so.

Wikipedia entry here.

121. West Finchley

Saturday 2nd April 4.45pm

This is very similar to the last station although it seems to have a slightly more modern, smaller, station building. It also has a footbridge over the tracks and when I crossed it there were two trains in the station so I stopped to take a picture:

Which of course means I missed my train, but amazingly, considering this feels like the middle of nowhere, another train arrived two minutes later.

Wikipedia entry here.

120. Woodside Park

Saturday 2nd April 4.25pm

Now I'm getting to the bits of the underground that hardly seem like underground at all as I get towards the edge of the map. This station started like as a train station before it was brought into the network. With its above ground platforms and platform canopies edged with white board it doesn't look that dissimilar to the rail station at home. And out of the station itself it's very residential - you could be anywhere.

Oh and according to Wikipedia it's alphabetically last on the list of Tube stations. I've never thought to look at a list like that - I must find one.

Wikipedia entry here.