139. Fulham Broadway

Saturday 24th September 4.40pm

This is one of my least favourite types of station - you have to go through a shopping centre to get to it! It's been modernised and part of the platform was new concrete into which the roundels were recessed, which I've not seen anywhere else before, but I didn't get a picture of them as that part of the platform was taken up by a man and a woman arguing with policemen.

Wikipedia entry here.

138. West Kensington

Saturday 24th September 4.15pm

Another station build on a bridge that straddles the tracks with stairs down either side. A small and fairly simple station as only one line goes through it. The building itself is one of those nice pale stone - Portland? - ones, although it's hard to get a decent view of it from across a busy road.

Wikipedia entry here.

137. Turnham Green

Saturday 24th September 4.00pm

My first trips to London after leaving school were to visit friends who were at college in West London. We had to pass into this station on our way into the city, and without fail someone would exclaim, "Turnham Green with envy!" We though we were funny. We weren't.

This is one of those stations where the track is elevated so the entrance and ticket office are at ground level and you have to go upstairs to catch the train. It feels the complete wrong way round for the underground but it does mean you get a great view down the tracks and over the green itself.

Wikipedia entry here.

136. Chiswick Park

Saturday 24th September 3.45pm

This is one of those stations that Piccadilly line trains go through but don't stop, which is confusing if you just look at a Tube map quickly and aren't paying proper attention.

The building is rather brilliantly circular, to suit its position on the bend in a road:

Rubbish picture but you get the idea. We don't really do many circular buildings in this country, although there are a surprising amount of circular Tube stations.

Wikipedia entry here.

135. North Ealing

Saturday 24th September 3.20pm

This is one of those stations on bits of track that existed before the Underground, which is why the station doesn't look more modern, and it fact looks a bit like a house that has been adapted into a station:

There's a bridge over the tracks, and as I crossed it a train - not one I needed - pulled into the station:

Wikipedia entry here.

135 stations is exactly halfway through this task. If I'd thought more carefully about it perhaps I'd have made the 135th somewhere historic and significant, but I guess it's more appropriate that it's an every day suburban station. Here's what my map looks like now:

134. Ealing Broadway

Saturday 24th September 3.00pm

This is the western end of the District line, but it's also a National Rail station. It has a confusing amount of exits, or just bad signage, which meant that I ended up swiping my Oyster card in two different places before I left the station, which makes me look like a complete beginner. To add insult to injury it then throws you out into a busy shopping street, which is confusing when you have no idea where you're going.

Wikipedia entry here.

133. Ealing Common

Saturday 24th September 2.50pm

This is one of those stations whose ticket office is built on a bridge over the tracks with stairs going down either side to the platform. An entirely practical if slightly unmemorable arrangement.

Wikipedia entry here.