Saturday 23rd November 2013. 11.30am.
Stupidly it's not a station I even knew existed, despite walking past the new entrance on the south bank of the Thames a few times in recent years. I thought it was an Overground station, and a mainline station, because so much attention has been given to the bridge with its roof of solar panels.
But it turns out it's a Tube station too, albeit one that had been shut for three years, which is clearly the amount of time it takes me to forget things. It's actually quite useful for that poorly served bit of south London near Tate Britain if you're feeling too lazy to walk so I expect our paths will cross again, and I'd definitely like to use the entrance south of the river as well just to see how that works.
Like all new Tube buildings it's light and airy, with wide platforms and corridors, tons of public space in neutral colours, and a big glass building when you get to street level. It'll be interesting to see how history looks on these kind of designs once they start to age a little.
Wikipedia entry here.
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