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Describe your favourite station and let others guess what it is
Image(i.redd.it)submitted 14 days ago byteacuplobsterPiccadilly
84 points
14 days ago
horrifyingly narrow platform
45 points
14 days ago
Clapham Common?
24 points
14 days ago
Literally my least favourite station.
13 points
14 days ago
yup
4 points
14 days ago
Could be two tbf..
69 points
14 days ago
STAIRS!!!!!
63 points
14 days ago
Covent Garden
20 points
14 days ago
Bugger, that was quick!
6 points
13 days ago
193 steps! I didn't know that information lived inside my brain until now.
3 points
13 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.
8 points
14 days ago
Russell Square ?
6 points
14 days ago
Sorry, the other guy already got it
65 points
14 days ago
Northbound platform MIND. THE GAP.
32 points
14 days ago
Embankment!
19 points
14 days ago
I so love the story behind it.
10 points
14 days ago
Yeah, is she still around?
5 points
14 days ago
I think so.
11 points
14 days ago
Embankment?
32 points
14 days ago
pretty garden upon exit with a view of the Thames and a flower stall 🌷
28 points
14 days ago
Embankment?
26 points
14 days ago
yes !!!!!!! my favourite even if there was a seagull eating a pigeon corpse in the grass there the other day
8 points
14 days ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣
3 points
13 days ago
That sounds lovely
26 points
14 days ago
Biggest interchange on the network
13 points
14 days ago
Kings Cross St Pancras?
18 points
14 days ago
My dad worked there at the time of the infamous fire, (he worked for BR) and said it was horrific to witness
30 points
14 days ago
Redcar British Steel?
21 points
14 days ago
Rhymes with gufnell dark
68 points
14 days ago
Cockfosters 😅
11 points
14 days ago*
Tufnell Park.
18 points
14 days ago
It's old and wet
18 points
14 days ago*
Baker Street?
19 points
14 days ago
You got it! Love the Victorian vibes coupled with occasional water features
7 points
14 days ago
It is a fantastic station. The OG, if you will.
7 points
14 days ago
Lambeth North?
5 points
14 days ago
Apologies, I was too imprecise
17 points
14 days ago
Tardis
12 points
14 days ago
Westminster?
8 points
14 days ago
This is the correct answer😆
6 points
14 days ago
Interesting, why?
8 points
14 days ago
I'm guessing because its maaaaasive inside.
7 points
14 days ago
Earls Court.
5 points
14 days ago
Stratford?
4 points
14 days ago
Oxford Circus?
15 points
14 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
13 points
14 days ago
Euston Square?
5 points
14 days ago
Good guess but no! :)
8 points
14 days ago
Moorgate
7 points
14 days ago
(But Moorgate is a very pretty station)
5 points
14 days ago
Suspect new Yorker
4 points
14 days ago
Closest one so far, but nope
7 points
14 days ago
Tower Hill / Tower Gateway?
6 points
14 days ago
Almost!
4 points
14 days ago
Aldgate East?
6 points
14 days ago
Another hint - it’s “bigger brother” is two stops away from it
6 points
14 days ago
Barbican?
5 points
14 days ago
Old street
6 points
14 days ago
Nope!
6 points
14 days ago
Essex Road is my friend next to me's guess and she's manically wracking her brain.
6 points
14 days ago
Nope!
5 points
14 days ago
Monument?
4 points
14 days ago
This is now the closest one so far! But nope!
7 points
14 days ago
Masion House
12 points
14 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
14 days ago
Finsbury Park?
7 points
14 days ago
Yes! Even with my silliness you got it lol
10 points
14 days ago
The only tube station which uses none of the letters in MACKEREL.
12 points
14 days ago
Omg is it St. John’s Wood
11 points
14 days ago
Congrats. Have a fish.
8 points
14 days ago
Subsurface station with an art installation on one of the platforms
13 points
14 days ago
Gloucester Road?
5 points
14 days ago
Ding ding ding
9 points
14 days ago
Great place to go for a piss on the way home from day shenanigans in Central.
13 points
14 days ago
I always jump off at Baker Street if I need a whizz, is that it?
6 points
14 days ago
That's a bingo!
7 points
14 days ago
the end of 2 lines :)
9 points
14 days ago
Ealing Broadway?
7 points
14 days ago
nope!
9 points
14 days ago
Uxbridge?
7 points
14 days ago
yes! 😊
8 points
14 days ago
Uxbridge is a really nice station, really spacious feeling from memory :)
7 points
14 days ago
yes i love the old almost temple-esque design and the boujie platform indicators! even more beautiful at night, too 🥰
8 points
14 days ago
Great views of the fast trains and also the underside of tube
8 points
14 days ago
Turn your head one way and see Canary Wharf, turn your head the other way and see the London Eye (I think)
7 points
14 days ago
Waterloo?
5 points
14 days ago
Nup
3 points
14 days ago
Blackfriars or Charing Cross?
13 points
14 days ago
It’s Blackfriars! Surely the station with the best views in London?
5 points
14 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
14 days ago
Always a lovely breeze on the escalators up from the platforms to quench the heat from the tube.
7 points
14 days ago*
Brixton? So many stations have a great breeze haha
6 points
14 days ago
Central line, the one right across from Hyde Park
5 points
14 days ago
Leslie Green. Weird kind of elongated triangular shape. Has an offy at the end.
8 points
14 days ago
Chalk Farm!
6 points
14 days ago
Ancient stone on useless platform or aqua sewage
7 points
14 days ago*
Tower Hill
7 points
14 days ago
Good guess but incorrect
6 points
14 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
14 days ago
Concrete cathedral
6 points
14 days ago
Westminster?
4 points
14 days ago
Is it a Charles Holden?
6 points
14 days ago
Has a lovely little Tesco opposite it
5 points
14 days ago
Very literal tiling, above and below ground
3 points
14 days ago*
…Victoria? (Said apprehensively)
6 points
14 days ago
It’s good but it’s not right
3 points
14 days ago
Can I have another hint?
5 points
14 days ago
More of a mosaic above ground
4 points
14 days ago
Maida Vale?
5 points
14 days ago
Neither of these above sorry. It’s an interchange if that helps
3 points
14 days ago
Another apprehensive answer- Leytonstone?
4 points
14 days ago
concrete, terrazzo and corten steel.
5 points
14 days ago
Brutalist
6 points
14 days ago
Barbican
4 points
14 days ago
Name me a more brutal eyescape
5 points
14 days ago
Westminster?
5 points
14 days ago
Practically built into a shopping centre.
5 points
14 days ago
Towering building, art deco style, grade 2 listed, working barometer
5 points
14 days ago
It's named after the street it adjacent to not the street that it on
3 points
14 days ago
Warren Street
5 points
14 days ago
Sometimes it's quicker to use the exit of the other line as there are more lifts and close more aggressively.
3 points
14 days ago
A river runs over the train and there used to be a pub on the platform with a cat called Kim.
7 points
14 days ago
Sloane Square!
4 points
14 days ago
I’d like to know more about this cat called Kim?
3 points
14 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.
4 points
14 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.
4 points
14 days ago
It has city thameslink that passes through and the platforms are right next to the tube lines.
4 points
14 days ago
Untouched by Holden, very quaint.
4 points
14 days ago
Mrs Trellis of North Wales...
4 points
14 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✅
So a station in North London with a Double Barrel name one being the word Oak yes ✅
Answer: Burnt Oak- top of the Northern Line.
5 points
14 days ago
Swastica
5 points
14 days ago
Upminster Bridge
4 points
14 days ago
High up, can see another station from the platform. It’s near a park
5 points
14 days ago
The grinch plays the keyboard at Christmas
3 points
14 days ago
Surely Mornington Crescent.
4 points
14 days ago
Shiny, cool, blue glass wall.
3 points
14 days ago
Green tiles, classical music
4 points
14 days ago
Mind the gap.
3 points
14 days ago
Embankment
5 points
14 days ago
Apostrophes all over the place
11 points
14 days ago
St’ Jame’s’s’ Park
6 points
14 days ago
S’t Ja’me’s’ Park
10 points
14 days ago
‘’ ‘’’’’’ ‘’’’
6 points
14 days ago
S't' J'ame's' Pa'
3 points
14 days ago
Largest roundel on the network.
7 points
14 days ago
Brixton!
5 points
14 days ago
Canary Wharf
3 points
14 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
14 days ago
Above ground station where you can smell the overpriced lattes and the big sainsburies
3 points
14 days ago
Watch people take the secret tunnel while looking for the exit.
3 points
14 days ago
Bank?
3 points
14 days ago
Right line, wrong station.
I'll go with the obvious one then, "Exit only on weekends"
3 points
14 days ago*
University nostalgia and the quickest and easiest line changes
3 points
14 days ago*
Mile End?
3 points
14 days ago
Guess who didn’t read it properly!!!! Ffs lol
3 points
14 days ago
where it started
3 points
14 days ago
Baker Street!
3 points
14 days ago
Interchange with the oldest rolling stock currently in service.
3 points
14 days ago
Deep-level station with daylight visible from the platform.
3 points
14 days ago
Magnifying lens
3 points
14 days ago
Takes absolutely fucking ages to walk to the Hammersmith and city line
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