44. Warren Street

Saturday 10th May 5.15pm

This is another stop that is just a couple of stops away from where I needed to be. It's on that odd part of Euston Road that has more stations than seems necessary: this, Euston and Euston Square, as well as King's Cross being just a five minute walk away, which makes me realise that Euston is a much more important station than its rather grim exterior suggests.

This is quite an unremarkable station although apparently it was the first one on the network to have wifi, although surely by the time you've gone through all the fuss of logging in your train has arrived and you can't use it any more?

Wikipedia entry here.

43. Pimlico

Saturday 10th May 5pm

I actually went through this station last summer on the way to Tate Britain but I was with a friend who I thought might be sarcastic about this kind of thing, and also was so excited about being in London with someone else that I forgot to take a picture.

I actually had no reason to be there but had time to kill and wanted to add another station to my list, so decided to walk one stop away from where I should have got on. Strictly speaking one stop away would have been South Kensington or Victoria, both of which I've already been through, so instead I walked a mile in the rain and sun to get here.

It's in a funny area, mostly residential but not as fancy as it thinks it is. Apart from visiting Tate Modern I can't think what I'd ever use it for again. I do like the backlit roundel, haven't seen that anywhere else yet.

Wikipedia entry here.

42. Sloane Square

Saturday 10th May 1.45pm

I quite like the tiling, even if it is an attempt to make the station feel fancier than it is. Considering the area it serves is nice and has lots of expensive shops the Tube station is a bit ordinary, and the platforms are open to the air. Even the station building itself has got a horrid office block sat on top of it, the least lovely building on Sloane Square.

The Wikipedia entry reminds me that the man who was one of the boys who inspired J M Barrie's Peter Pan committed suicide at this station and when I saw the play Peter & Alice about how it had affected his life it was just about the only line in the whole thing that moved me to tears.

Wikipedia entry here.

41. Holloway Road

Friday 2nd May 7pm

I had no reason at all to be on the Holloway Road, but it was one stop away from where I needed to be and I had time to kill so I thought I'd tick off another station on the list. Turns out it was a rather lovely station with some gorgeous brown tiling:

I can't help thinking this is how all Tube stations should be. It's also got lifts, which it turns out I don't really like in a station, and the outside is one of those gorgeous ox blood red tiled fronts - pretty much your classic Tube station.

Wikipedia entry here.

40. Goodge Street

Friday 18th April 6.30pm

I didn't actually need to be here but of course I'd have to go through it at some point and a sunny Easter evening was as good a time as any to go out of my way. Turns out that with the Crossrail works going on at Tottenham Court Road for another two years it might actually be a useful alternative. Not that I really need to be in that part of London.

It's not that special a station, just serving one line, but it's actually a good example of this kind of thing, with some nice plain cream tiling and above ground it's clad in those ox blood red tiles that are so distinctive (not that you can tell from all the scaffolding up the front of it). And it has lifts, which is rare enough to still feel like a treat.

Wikipedia entry here.

39. Highbury & Islington

Friday April 11th 10.30pm

When I looked this up on Google maps to see where I was going it looked like it had a really old station building but it turns out that's closed and instead there's a modern building over the road which serves the Tube, the Overground and trains. It's a bland building although it does have one of those lovely blue station names across the front of it.

With all those different services going through it there are a lot of different platforms. The Tube ones are fairly unremarkable - no patterned tiling, not station name in tiles - but I do like the way the roundel sign is in a little alcove and lit up.

Wikipedia entry here.

38. Euston Square

Monday 7th April 6pm

Another station that has a similar name to one nearby but no interchange between them, just to confuse people who aren't locals or who haven't read the Tube map. I was neither, I just got out here because it's within walking distance of King's Cross. Apparently there's a fancy new station on the south side of Euston Road but somehow I ended up on the north side, which to be fair is where I needed to be, where the entrance is a small set of stairs that looks like the entrance to a public lavatory.

Wikipedia entry here.