166. Kingsbury

Thursday 18th January 1.20pm

I approached this one on foot and nearly missed it as I'd convinced myself it would be on the right-hand side of the road and it wasn't. This wasn't some map-reading stupidity - I just felt that's where it ought to be. Instead it's on the other side of the road in a row of shops, and you'd easily miss it anyway.

Wikipedia entry here.

165. Queensbury

Thursday 18th January 1.00pm

For a suburban station you have to walk along quite a long corridor to get from the platform to the actual station building, or perhaps it just felt it as I was sharing the corridor with someone having a tedious conversation on their mobile. The station itself has toilets, which is something you almost never see although I didn't venture in.

Outside there's a roundabout with a roundel in it:

Although there's a footpath on the roundabout I'm not sure how you'd get to it as it's a roundabout and the inner lane is also a taxi rank. It's interesting to see they've put solar panels on it.

Wikipedia entry here.

164. Wembley Park

Thursday 18th January 12.55pm

This is the nearest station to Wembley Stadium but also to Wembley Arena, which means I must have been through it on my way to gigs at the latter but I not really sure I remember it as it is. At some point this century it's had improvements to help cope with the huge amount of people going to the new stadium,hence the fancy new front:

That lettering on the top looks like something they do on the Overground and really should have been blue so it stands out more. And those steps are a bit of a hazard. I can see how they're needed to get lots of people in and out quickly but they're steep and if someone fell it would be like dominoes. On the other hand they'd be great for a line of dancing girls to high-kick their way down.

Wikipedia entry here.

163. Preston Road

Thursday 18th January 12.30pm

This is one of those stations that I'd never heard of before and if you'd told me the name I'd have guessed it was some little stop on a branch line in the middle of suburbia, which I suppose it is only it happens to be on the Tube. Who even knew there was an area of London called Preston? (Although it is basically Wembley.) It's one of those stations that you don't quite notice in a row of shops, which seems practical and appropriate.

Wikipedia entry here.