Saturday 6th September 6.15pm
This station is most famous for the fact that it was closed for years. I remember staying with a friend who was house-sitting in Camden in the 90s and having to walk past it to the busier Camden Town tube as it was shut and nobody seemed to know if it would ever open again. It's also the name of some game on radio 4 but I've never heard of it as those comedy things often aren't as funny as I'd hope.
The station itself is fairly classic: tiled platform, oxblood red tiled building above ground. It does have lifts instead of stairs (the cause of the endless closure) and as I waited for one I enjoyed eavesdropping on two women, one of whom was talking about someone she'd been dating for two months before the whole thing fizzled out. It's actually a very civilised way of arriving in Camden as it's on a quiet street and there's a nice walk up Camden High Street before it gets really busier, and surely anywhere is preferable to the horror of Camden Town tube?
Wikipedia entry here.
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