Saturday 25th May 5.40pm
This is a station they ought to encourage you to avoid as it's currently a building site due to redevelopment as part of the whole Crossrail thing. [One day soon I will get very excited about that but first I've got a Tube network to get round.] It's hard to imagine that this busy end of Oxford Street, which used to be a crossroads and shops, is now a huge building site. Still, I bet the engineering is amazing!
It's another one of those central London stations I'd never use because it's so close to others - it's just a short walk from Leicester Square or Oxford Circus - and of course it's on the Northern Line, which is confusing with its different branches, which from this station doesn't stop at King's Cross. But it needed ticking off the list, and I had time before my train so why not?
It's a bit crowded and dated - the top of the escalators are surrounded by mosaic arches which looks cramped and overpowering and in need of a make-over - once it had character but now, in comparison to the anything on the Jubilee line it looks horribly old-fashioned. And down on the platforms it's looking tatty and half-finished, which is what it is really. I even saw a temporary roundel which said TOTTENHAM CT. ROAD, which was so inelegant I winced.
Wikipedia entry here.
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