Favourite tube station? (2 Viewers)

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I'd do a poll but fuck typing out all 200 and whatever

I'm quite the fan of SOUTHWARK

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My least favourite has to be the horror that is the CONSTANT MAZE of Green Park
 
I assumed this was a bump of a thread from the dark days of the London clique.

WHO THE FUCK CARES?
 
Well with Leeds as an inspiration....

For some reason I was always quite fond of Oval, but I can't find any reason why.
 
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My least favourite has to be the horror that is the CONSTANT MAZE of Green Park
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My LONDONIC FRIEND Laura always used to say AVOID GREEN PARK and after NEGOTIATING IT with a VERY LARGE SUITCASE a long time ago I'M WITH HER

WE always change at VICTORIA (which is GRIM but NOT QUITE SUCH A PAIN IN THE ARSE) when we are EN TRAIN from EUSTON to KENSINGTON :disco: these days
 
King's Cross and BANK are FUCKING NIGHTMARES too

No WONDER VoR is so ANTI

*STARVES TO DEATH SEARCHING FOR PICCADILLY INTERCHANGE*
 
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What's the one where you literally walk about two miles underground to get to an adjoining station.

I have fond memories of South Kensington (again no reason whatsoever).
 
Solna Centrum in Stockholm is rather striking:

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It's like the gateway to hell!
 
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Thread after my own heart!

Westminster for me, love it when I have an excuse to change there. The entire Jubilee line extension is great. Not for aesthetic reasons but I adore King's Cross having done a few weeks work there.

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THEY'RE JUST TRAIN STATIONS
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:Oi:
 
I am going to Southwark tube tonight actually as a friend lives near. It is a nice station but a bit too modern for me.

Whitechapel is the worst, no one can get in and out in peak times, there are only a couple of barriers. Bring on the cross rail refurb, but that will cause more disruption in itself
 
VoR said:
THEY'RE JUST TRAIN STATIONS
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They are buildings, differently designed, different content - so anyone with a slight interest in architecture, design they are a talking point for, especially those that use them regularly.

London haters :grr: VoR is just jealous because he can't have the same discussion about LEEDS BUS STOPS
 
I was never a fan of OVER LONDON CHAT on here, but VoR comes across as really uncultured here.
 
Halli said:
I am going to Southwark tube tonight actually as a friend lives near. It is a nice station but a bit too modern for me.

Whitechapel is the worst, no one can get in and out in peak times, there are only a couple of barriers. Bring on the cross rail refurb, but that will cause more disruption in itself
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Whitechapel's a NIGHTMARE to interchange at with the refurb work at the moment. I like the building itself though, it's got character. The platforms are just BLUE PREFAB WALL HELL at the moment though.

Canary Wharf is FUCKING FAB on all levels, it'll be even better once the Crossrail building's done.
 
I quite like some of the Jubilee line extension ones but most of them are annoyingly samey and unremarkable. I quite like a lot of the New Works stations done in the 30s/40s though (anything on the Central east of Liverpool Street, all the Metropolitan, Bakerloo and Jubilee ones north of Baker Street), even though they're probably just as guilty of that as the Jubilee extension ones for sameyness I like how old-school the style is.

Also basically any with the old tube signs on the platform (rather than the boring modern ones) are automatically great :disco:
 
Leytonstone - it's full of Alfred Hitcock mosaics. Knife crime is celebrated there in artistic form.
 
Lisbon has the best ones I've ever seen. Well, one of the lines in particular. The other two are more prosaic.

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The second one looks like a nightmarish TV gameshow set.
 
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Rissne is an awful suburb in Stockholm but its underground station is a bit of heaven for map and history geeks. The walls are covered with timelines and maps and stories about former empires. :disco:

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Also some of the stations (or was it only one?) along line 14 in Paris where the train, right before arriving to the station, go through a glass tunnel with a mini botanical garden.
 
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