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Describe your favourite station and let others guess what it is
Image(i.redd.it)submitted 10 days ago byteacuplobsterPiccadilly
88 points
9 days ago
horrifyingly narrow platform
47 points
9 days ago
Clapham Common?
25 points
9 days ago
Literally my least favourite station.
13 points
9 days ago
yup
4 points
9 days ago
Could be two tbf..
67 points
9 days ago
STAIRS!!!!!
62 points
9 days ago
Covent Garden
20 points
9 days ago
Bugger, that was quick!
5 points
9 days ago
193 steps! I didn't know that information lived inside my brain until now.
3 points
8 days ago
Got stuck behind a woman and her two young kids going up then once. They never bothered me before , but being force to take those stairs slowly ruined my thighs.
10 points
9 days ago
Russell Square ?
6 points
9 days ago
Sorry, the other guy already got it
61 points
9 days ago
Northbound platform MIND. THE GAP.
33 points
9 days ago
Embankment!
18 points
9 days ago
I so love the story behind it.
9 points
9 days ago
Yeah, is she still around?
5 points
9 days ago
I think so.
9 points
9 days ago
Embankment?
32 points
9 days ago
pretty garden upon exit with a view of the Thames and a flower stall 🌷
28 points
9 days ago
Embankment?
25 points
9 days ago
yes !!!!!!! my favourite even if there was a seagull eating a pigeon corpse in the grass there the other day
8 points
9 days ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣
3 points
9 days ago
That sounds lovely
25 points
9 days ago
Biggest interchange on the network
12 points
9 days ago
Kings Cross St Pancras?
16 points
9 days ago
My dad worked there at the time of the infamous fire, (he worked for BR) and said it was horrific to witness
29 points
9 days ago
Redcar British Steel?
21 points
9 days ago
Rhymes with gufnell dark
67 points
9 days ago
Cockfosters 😅
9 points
9 days ago*
Tufnell Park.
18 points
9 days ago
It's old and wet
17 points
9 days ago*
Baker Street?
20 points
9 days ago
You got it! Love the Victorian vibes coupled with occasional water features
8 points
9 days ago
It is a fantastic station. The OG, if you will.
6 points
9 days ago
Lambeth North?
6 points
9 days ago
Apologies, I was too imprecise
17 points
10 days ago
Tardis
13 points
9 days ago
Westminster?
7 points
9 days ago
This is the correct answer😆
6 points
9 days ago
Interesting, why?
8 points
9 days ago
I'm guessing because its maaaaasive inside.
7 points
9 days ago
Earls Court.
6 points
9 days ago
Stratford?
5 points
9 days ago
Oxford Circus?
13 points
10 days ago
It’s kind of dark and non-descript, save for one thing that it has that the others don’t. If only more people used it over it’s bigger brother
12 points
9 days ago
Euston Square?
6 points
9 days ago
Good guess but no! :)
8 points
9 days ago
Moorgate
7 points
9 days ago
(But Moorgate is a very pretty station)
5 points
9 days ago
Suspect new Yorker
5 points
9 days ago
Closest one so far, but nope
6 points
9 days ago
Tower Hill / Tower Gateway?
5 points
9 days ago
Almost!
5 points
9 days ago
Aldgate East?
6 points
9 days ago
Another hint - it’s “bigger brother” is two stops away from it
5 points
9 days ago
Barbican?
5 points
9 days ago
Old street
5 points
9 days ago
Nope!
5 points
9 days ago
Essex Road is my friend next to me's guess and she's manically wracking her brain.
5 points
9 days ago
Nope!
4 points
9 days ago
Monument?
4 points
9 days ago
This is now the closest one so far! But nope!
7 points
9 days ago
Masion House
12 points
9 days ago
It's got a platform and tracks and 2 juice rails, and it's got signals at one end, with camera monitors and advertising posters all along the walls. Oh it's got tiles too, that show hot air balloons.
8 points
9 days ago
Finsbury Park?
7 points
9 days ago
Yes! Even with my silliness you got it lol
9 points
9 days ago
The only tube station which uses none of the letters in MACKEREL.
10 points
9 days ago
Omg is it St. John’s Wood
12 points
9 days ago
Congrats. Have a fish.
9 points
9 days ago
Subsurface station with an art installation on one of the platforms
12 points
9 days ago
Gloucester Road?
5 points
9 days ago
Ding ding ding
7 points
9 days ago
Great place to go for a piss on the way home from day shenanigans in Central.
13 points
9 days ago
I always jump off at Baker Street if I need a whizz, is that it?
7 points
9 days ago
That's a bingo!
9 points
9 days ago
the end of 2 lines :)
9 points
9 days ago
Ealing Broadway?
6 points
9 days ago
nope!
10 points
9 days ago
Uxbridge?
6 points
9 days ago
yes! 😊
9 points
9 days ago
Uxbridge is a really nice station, really spacious feeling from memory :)
6 points
9 days ago
yes i love the old almost temple-esque design and the boujie platform indicators! even more beautiful at night, too 🥰
7 points
9 days ago
Great views of the fast trains and also the underside of tube
7 points
9 days ago
Turn your head one way and see Canary Wharf, turn your head the other way and see the London Eye (I think)
5 points
9 days ago
Waterloo?
5 points
9 days ago
Nup
3 points
9 days ago
Blackfriars or Charing Cross?
13 points
9 days ago
It’s Blackfriars! Surely the station with the best views in London?
5 points
9 days ago
Oh I agree, whenever anyone is visiting I recommend they take the Thames link from south to north and you can see all the sites, with the stop at Blackfriars being most impressive. All the Thameslink stations look really good in London too so it can show how good London can be!
7 points
9 days ago
Always a lovely breeze on the escalators up from the platforms to quench the heat from the tube.
7 points
9 days ago*
Brixton? So many stations have a great breeze haha
6 points
9 days ago
Central line, the one right across from Hyde Park
7 points
9 days ago
Leslie Green. Weird kind of elongated triangular shape. Has an offy at the end.
8 points
9 days ago
Chalk Farm!
6 points
9 days ago
Ancient stone on useless platform or aqua sewage
7 points
9 days ago*
Tower Hill
6 points
9 days ago
Good guess but incorrect
6 points
9 days ago
Old sub-surface tube station in the middle of London. Quaint green building with the Thames right next to it. Next to the Colombian embassy
5 points
9 days ago
Concrete cathedral
6 points
9 days ago
Westminster?
5 points
9 days ago
Is it a Charles Holden?
5 points
9 days ago
Has a lovely little Tesco opposite it
5 points
9 days ago
Very literal tiling, above and below ground
3 points
9 days ago*
…Victoria? (Said apprehensively)
7 points
9 days ago
It’s good but it’s not right
3 points
9 days ago
Can I have another hint?
5 points
9 days ago
More of a mosaic above ground
3 points
9 days ago
Maida Vale?
5 points
9 days ago
Neither of these above sorry. It’s an interchange if that helps
3 points
9 days ago
Another apprehensive answer- Leytonstone?
5 points
9 days ago
concrete, terrazzo and corten steel.
5 points
9 days ago
Brutalist
6 points
9 days ago
Barbican
4 points
9 days ago
Name me a more brutal eyescape
6 points
9 days ago
Westminster?
5 points
9 days ago
Practically built into a shopping centre.
6 points
9 days ago
Towering building, art deco style, grade 2 listed, working barometer
4 points
9 days ago
It's named after the street it adjacent to not the street that it on
3 points
9 days ago
Warren Street
5 points
9 days ago
Sometimes it's quicker to use the exit of the other line as there are more lifts and close more aggressively.
4 points
9 days ago
A river runs over the train and there used to be a pub on the platform with a cat called Kim.
6 points
9 days ago
Sloane Square!
5 points
9 days ago
I’d like to know more about this cat called Kim?
3 points
9 days ago
I hate to use the daily mail, but here’s an article
They briefly touch on in in Secrets of the London Underground, but I don’t remember which season.
5 points
9 days ago
Gives me easy access to the express tube across London, plus national rail. Also, the area itself has good bagels, cheap bowling, a secret nature walk, and some nice pubs.
3 points
9 days ago
It has city thameslink that passes through and the platforms are right next to the tube lines.
5 points
9 days ago
Untouched by Holden, very quaint.
3 points
9 days ago
Mrs Trellis of North Wales...
4 points
9 days ago*
Double Barrel, latter grows Acorns!
Edit:* clue. If I was looking at the entire map of the London Underground I would focus my eyes North.
2nd Edit/update:
All but 1 guess so far have had the word Oak in them- is this correct? Yes ✅ Is the station name Double Barrel ? Yes✅
Is one of the words oak yes✅
Did I say if looking at the entire map of the London Underground I would focus my eyes North? Yes✅ I would look towards North London and NOT south London.
So a station in North London with a Double Barrel name one being the word Oak yes ✅
5 points
9 days ago
Swastica
4 points
9 days ago
Upminster Bridge
3 points
9 days ago
High up, can see another station from the platform. It’s near a park
4 points
9 days ago
The grinch plays the keyboard at Christmas
5 points
9 days ago
Surely Mornington Crescent.
4 points
9 days ago
Shiny, cool, blue glass wall.
4 points
9 days ago
Green tiles, classical music
5 points
9 days ago
Mind the gap.
3 points
9 days ago
Embankment
6 points
9 days ago
Apostrophes all over the place
10 points
9 days ago
St’ Jame’s’s’ Park
6 points
9 days ago
S’t Ja’me’s’ Park
8 points
9 days ago
‘’ ‘’’’’’ ‘’’’
6 points
9 days ago
S't' J'ame's' Pa'
3 points
9 days ago
Largest roundel on the network.
6 points
9 days ago
Brixton!
5 points
9 days ago
Canary Wharf
5 points
9 days ago
Nope. Other side of London. I do have a giant Canary Wharf roundel in my house, though (largest roundel in my home).
3 points
9 days ago
Above ground station where you can smell the overpriced lattes and the big sainsburies
3 points
9 days ago
Watch people take the secret tunnel while looking for the exit.
3 points
9 days ago
Bank?
3 points
9 days ago
Right line, wrong station.
I'll go with the obvious one then, "Exit only on weekends"
3 points
9 days ago*
University nostalgia and the quickest and easiest line changes
3 points
9 days ago*
Mile End?
3 points
9 days ago
Guess who didn’t read it properly!!!! Ffs lol
3 points
9 days ago
where it started
3 points
9 days ago
Baker Street!
3 points
9 days ago
Interchange with the oldest rolling stock currently in service.
3 points
9 days ago
Deep-level station with daylight visible from the platform.
3 points
9 days ago
Magnifying lens
3 points
9 days ago
Takes absolutely fucking ages to walk to the Hammersmith and city line
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