Saturday 30th March. 4.45pm
There's no real reason for me to get off at Russell Square - the only thing it's near too is the British Museum, but actually it's close enough to King's Cross to walk - if you come out of the station and walk past the shopping centre you can see St Pancras hotel in the not very far distance. I basically got out here instead of Kings Cross as I had plenty of time and wanted to add another station to my list.
It's one of those rare stations that has no escalators, and as there are 175 stairs (equivalent to 15 flights) only someone who loves stairs or hates lifts would bother to climb them. Instead there's that awkward shuffling for and in the lifts, where nobody knows what to do or say but just stands around looking above each others heads until you reach the ticket office.
Outside it's one of those stations that's clad in those gorgeous ox blood red tiles they used for a while, which makes me wish more buildings were tiled instead of brick. It's also just a two story building with nothing built above it, which is rather overshadowed by the row of Victorian houses beside it.
Wikipedia entry here.
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