Friday 17th July 6.00pm
I was going to save this until I happened to be at a gig at the Roundhouse but that's looking increasingly unlikely, and as I had time to tick off a couple of stations near King's Cross I figured I might as well just do it anyway.
I'd been intrigued by it since I read a novel about a murder that takes places on the stairs of the station. It even included a map:
I promised myself when I went I'd look and see if it was the same, but of course as I got off the train I couldn't remember, although looking at it now I realise it's unchanged. I wish I'd arrived at the station on foot so I could have taken the steps to platform level, but there are 219 of them so there was no way I was doing it the other way round!
And the station? Oh it was your usual Northern line station of that period - low building covered in those lovely ox-blood red tiles, tiled platforms. What surprised me was how busy it was - I expected very few people to get off but tons did.
Wikipedia entry here.
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