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I was on the platform of Hillingdon tube station the other day. It's a pretty quiet and lonely platform, not isolated as such but very few people were there and even fewer staff.
Are there any other such stations?
Donna Ferentes
23-08-2005, 12:03
Yeah, most of them.
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/b/blake_hall/blake_hall3.jpg
Donna Ferentes
23-08-2005, 12:12
That's cheating (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Hall_tube_station).
That's cheating (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Hall_tube_station).
But it's as lonely as lonely can be :D
discplayer
23-08-2005, 12:55
Outside rush hours quite a few suburban ones are. Unless they happen to be town centre or good for the local bus network. I used to live near Hounslow West which was usually busy, however Osterley, a few stops in, was usually dead outside of rush hours.
Pickman's model
23-08-2005, 13:43
west finchley
mill hill east
woodside park
east acton
canonbury (tho' not a tube station...)
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/b/blake_hall/blake_hall3.jpg What a nice looking Tube station :) . I could face my working day better if my journey started in such a place.
Donna Ferentes
23-08-2005, 13:54
But it's as lonely as lonely can be :DYes, but it's the loneliness of the grave.
Yes, but it's the loneliness of the grave.
You know anywhere lonelier? :(
What a nice looking Tube station :) . I could face my working day better if my journey started in such a place.
I never actually got to that one. This one was nearly as nice:
http://www.pendar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Tube/OngarBranch/4_NorthWeald05.jpg
Sitting waiting for the last train in a wood-pannelled waiting room with the sound of cows settling down in the fields just audible over the whoosh of the gas lighting, the ticking of the huge clock and the purring of the station cat on my lap... a distant rattling sound grows louder...
And then a Tube train pulls in :eek:
By the time of its closure on 31 October 1981, Blake Hill was reported to have only six passengers a day
Which is pretty hard to beat :eek:
Incidently, some anoraks are runnning the epping-ongar branch again
http://eorailway.co.uk/
I was on the platform of Hillingdon tube station the other day. It's a pretty quiet and lonely platform, not isolated as such but very few people were there and even fewer staff.
Are there any other such stations?
I reckon that's cos not many people know where it is!
I live that way and I haven't a clue where it is...not that Ive looked hard.
Prob cos it's on metro line - crap service.
In case anyone's missed it, I've done a big feature on the Epping Ongar line.
http://www.urban75.org/london/ongar.html
I also own the old 'Gentlemen' toilet sign from Blake Hall too! :)
Mornington Cresent at non-rush hour. I used to work in Greater London House (the building outside with the Cats/Egyptian theme), and if I stayed and had a couple of drinks after work any night, the tube station would be virtually deserted...
exosculate
23-08-2005, 19:53
Disused tube stations in London (http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/)
Citizen66
23-08-2005, 19:57
There's a huge difference between a 'disused' station and a 'lonely' one!
/Ponders Allan's intentions...
Stobart Stopper
23-08-2005, 19:59
I was on the platform of Hillingdon tube station the other day. It's a pretty quiet and lonely platform, not isolated as such but very few people were there and even fewer staff.
Are there any other such stations?
Fairlop and Grange Hill are like that sometimes.
Wowbagger
23-08-2005, 21:26
Mill Hill East. It's a wonderful little station, but completely deserted when I had cause to pass through last Spring.
I also believe Chesham is also the same way, but I've never been there.
Outside the rush hour Roding Valley, Chigwell and Grange Hill stations on the Woodford to Hainault stretch of the Central Line must be very quiet. Line closes at 8pm weekdays. Not sure about weekends.I dont think there is any other stretch of the tube that dosent stay open to after midnight.
BarryB
Donna Ferentes
24-08-2005, 08:02
You know anywhere lonelier? :(Well, there's Milton Keynes Coach Station.
Donna Ferentes
24-08-2005, 15:49
A chap just took this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0719552885/202-3382447-5298217) out of the library on an interlibrary loan. While doing so he was telling me that:
1. there's apparently a place called Three Bridges near Ealing where (if I followed him) there's a bridge carrying road traffic over a bridge carrying a railway line over a bridge carrying a river over a canal;
2. there's supposedly more closed Tube stations than open ones.
A chap just took this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0719552885/202-3382447-5298217) out of the library on an interlibrary loan. While doing so he was telling me that:
1. there's apparently a place called Three Bridges near Ealing where (if I followed him) there's a bridge carrying road traffic over a bridge carrying a railway line over a bridge carrying a river over a canal;
There's also Farringdon, where there's a bridge carrying Clerkenwell Road over the Fleet River over the Metropolitan Lines over the Widened Lines (Thameslink) - all of it underground. Well, within a few metres, anyway.
2. there's supposedly more closed Tube stations than open ones.
Got to be bollocks: see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disused_London_Underground_stations) versus here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:London_Underground_stations) .
Donna Ferentes
24-08-2005, 15:54
I was sceptical, but he's gone now! Would that list include stations long since demolished though?
Would that list include stations long since demolished though?
Yep, it includes St Mary's and Tower of London.
There can't have been that many stations on the Quainton Tramway, which it doesn't include, and none of which was underground.
Anyway, if he used "Tube" to refer to Underground lines in general, he's clearly not a properly qualified pedant on this subject.
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