54. Hyde Park Corner

Friday September 12th 11.30am

This is one of those stations with no surface buildings, that you get to through a slightly confusing subway under the busy junction at Hyde Park Corner. Once you get into it the station itself the platforms still have some of the old tiling, which is always lovely to see:

There was also some rather lovely tiling on the other platform too, but I only noticed that as the train pulled away and I was too slow to get my phone out to take a picture.

Wikipedia entry here.

So, 54 stations, that's 20% of them done then. Not bad going for 21 months, especially as I don't live in London and haven't really gone out of my way to visit stations that I wasn't near anyway. It has made me realise though just how hard this task is going to be to complete - I'm going to have no reason to be at the ends of the Central line other than to visit the stations, and I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet. In the meantime I had to address the problem of how to keep track of where I've been. Yes I realise that's what this is for, but I also needed something more practical, that I could hold in my hand so I could see what I needed to do next. Basically what I needed was an A3 copy of the Tube map and a highlighting pen: