Saturday 10th June 10.35am
[How annoying is that sticker on the roundel? I went looking for another one but it looked like someone had been round sticking them to all of them. Hooligans.]
The station after this (Willesden Green) is below street level so you have to climb stairs to get out of it - this is elevated above the street and you climb up to it, and yet the journey between the two doesn't feel like it's going up/down a slope. It also turns out to be very close to Kilburn Park (which I've already been to), on the Bakerloo line - opposite ends of the same street basically - and which of course don't anywhere near each other on the Tube map, which is one of the weaknesses of the map, but it must feel satisfyingly like you know the area when you realise. And it's not Kentish Town, which I insist on muddling it up with.
There are also flower beds on the platform too, which seems ridiculously charming for a huge transport system, and there's a waiting room with a curved glass end to it, very much like West Hampstead which is the next station along.
Wikipedia entry here.
