155. Willesden Green

Saturday 10th June 10.10am

This station made me smile as they've got flowerbeds on the platform - this part of the Jubilee line is above ground, and actually used to be a Metropolitan station so it's older. It's also got two types of roundel on the platform, although this one is really badly positioned between the benches:

Apparently there's a very rare clock on the front of the station - I looked at it and wasn't impressed. Oops.

Wikipedia entry here.

154. Blackhorse Road

Saturday 6th May 7.00pm

This is one of those stations on a corner at a junction so you don't see it until you're on top of it, although to be honest the building was nothing special.

The tiling is fairly straightforward:

Wikipedia entry here.

That completes all the station on the Victoria line! I thought it would be the first line I'd complete because it has the least (fewest?) amount of stations on it but it turns out I have no real need to be in east London. I am rather fond of it as a line though, partly because it's a nice blue colour but also because it's has no confusing branches to trick you.

153. Walthamstow Central

Saturday 6th May 6.30pm

I was surprised by how busy the train was when it got to this station although I don't know why I should assume the end of the line would be quiet as this is a really busy area with a market all the way down Walthamstow High Street and bus and train stations very close by. I didn't notice what the station was like, which usually means it's fairly nondescript.

The tiling is slightly baffling - what's this got to do with the local area? I guess that by the end of the line they'd simply run out of inspiration:

Wikipedia entry here.

152. Seven Sisters

Saturday 6th May 10.20am

This seems to have no surface building and you get into it from a subway beside a busy road, which I guess makes it a proper underground station although I do miss an interesting building at street level.

The tiling is a slightly awkward arrangement of seven trees which the area gets its name from:

Earlier in the year the Overground station was briefly all over the internet when someone took a picture of seven nuns on the station next to the name sign but sadly there were none about when I visited and it was actually really quiet.

Wikipedia entry here.

151. Tottenham Hale

Saturday 6th May 10.00am

I've been to the station here before when King's Cross has been shut and mainline services have terminated here. The train station is a modern glass box but the underground station is exactly like you'd expect a Victoria line station to be, and exits onto a slightly windswept plaza next to an industrial estate, which is a bit bleak.

In common with all the stations on the Victoria line - although I haven't always noticed this - it has tiling that specifically relates to the station, although quite how this does escapes me - it reminds me of Moses being abandoned in the bulrushes (lets assume he'sin the basket), but I hadn't realised he was from east London:

Wikipedia entry here.

150. Hampstead

Saturday 8th April 12.00pm

I'd purposefully decided to go south from here as apparently the tiling on the platform still has its old name - Heath Street - but I couldn't spot it and only noticed it right at the end of the platform as I was on the train out! I resisted the urge to get off at the next station and head back just to take pictures of tiles - that would be silly wouldn't it?

I remember using the station years ago and found it easily on a corner although for some reason one of the entrances is permanently shut which might make it a bit of a bottleneck if it were busier. It's also the deepest tube station although you'd never actually know it!

Wikipedia entry here.

149. Golders Green

Saturday 8th April 11.30am

This confused me a bit - you exit the platform down stairs despite it not feeling remotely elevated and only a few hundred yards before the station coming out of a tunnel. But then then as I walked from the station to Hampstead I realised why - there's a great big hill between the two! It's also quite weird to see 'crematoriums' on the signs for local destinations as you leave - I can't imagine that happens anywhere else.

Wikipedia entry here.