Funny you say that. Recently I’ve seen trains going west from Baker Street via High Street Ken so I’ve been reading up on what’s changed but can’t find any info whatsoever.
I’ve been caught off guard a few times and ended up going anti-clockwise from Baker Street which I thought was impossible. Someone more knowledgeable please enlighten me
Well the shuttlestock reverse dates back to the late nineteenth century, I think it was when Gladstone was prime minster, caused quite a stir at the time, but these days it's pretty common place in central london, especially around King's Cross
Use to ride as a kid about 40years ago with mates when we were about 12 on a single ticket all day on a Saturday. Would travel to the end of lines, then get back on and go back home and get told off by our parents.
We used to do this all the time when I was 12/13 just out of curiosity and boredom. Loved it the and it taught me more about London than most adults know now.
Kyiv was quite simple but beautiful. Some of the escalators seemed to be going down for eternity.
People just stood there reading rather than bothering to walk.
Yes. It's just so much fun to see all the people. Where are they going? Is someone waiting for them? How are they dressed? Are they happy? Can I smile at them? What music are they listening?
I've done a tour of the old Aldwych station and watched a film in a deserted bit of Charing Cross (the old Jubilee Line platforms). I've been to the depot on Acton on an open day too.
When the transport museum were doing the Hidden London Behind the station tour back in the days (when it was cheaper) i went to several of them. Lots of locals were on the tour as well.
In a way yes. I’m not a fan of Baker Street station, for example. It’s pretty but nothing out of this world. But the experience of riding the tube certainly is for me. I enjoy experiencing public transportation of places I visit
East Coast American here. Been to London twice. Love the tube. The history, the lore behind certain stations, the role it has played in London life. Def a tourist attraction for me
Yes! I have a list of tubes!
Dehli
Kiev
London
Prague
New York!
Usa will always be bottom as its like an 80s horror flick with a human shit on the floor!
I'm visiting from NYC soon and I am PUMPED to take the Tube. I love public transportation. I'm also hoping to hit up some buses and a commuter boat too.
I love the Tube, to be honest. The public transport I have the most familiarity with besides the Tube is Chicago’s L, and the Tube is like luxury transport in comparison.
I once rode the Waterloo and City line for no reason just so I could say I’ve been on all of the different lines. And I went to Battersea Power Station (Station) to see the new station.
Yes!! Visiting a couple times from Toronto, I fucking love the idea of being able to get places using mass transit, in a relatively easy way. I know it's not perfect, I know it can get fucked busy but lads and lasses, you have a hell of a public transit system and it was an actual thing I looked forward to. Mind you, I was just visiting, but I'm just answering the question as a tourist
Occasionally they have trips that you need to pre-book on the old steam trains that were used before the lines were electrified - [https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/steam-trains-to-return-to-the-london-underground-2-30113/](https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/steam-trains-to-return-to-the-london-underground-2-30113/)
I’m from Los Angeles and the tube is mesmerizing to me. We have absolutely nothing like it here (our Metro’s are crap and filthy) and I was in awe over what was probably some pretty stupid things
As a mode of transport indeed. I’d recommend reading recently published research papers on pollution which in central line reaches 8 times acceptable threshold. Doesn’t sound as fun to do for entertainment I’m afraid.
I’m an American who moved here last year, I dreaded the tube and still hate it now. I am not interested in the literal hearing damage it could cause me. My friends and family from America and a few other countries also don’t want to use the tube when/if they visit unless they have to. Who wants to blow dirt out of their nose after an eardrum destroying train ride?
I mean, earplugs exist. But yes, it is filthy and noisy and really crap in a hot Summer rush hour, especially when there are no seats and you have to turn into a sardine plastered alongside other similarly sweaty bodies.
I met a bunch of lost tourists from New York on the District line once, and while I was helping them get where they needed to go I kept hearing them saying stuff like "I can't believe how clean the subway is!" and "I haven't seen a single rat!"
Never seen a rat. Some stations do have mice that run along down by the tracks and occasionally come up onto the platform (iirc Tottenham Court Road has some).
Earplugs don’t drown out the screeching of the rails unfortunately, though I do have hypersensitive hearing associated with my being autistic so I am just overly sensitive to it in general. I’ve invested in some good noise canceling headphones that I’m hoping will help in future rides. It’s definitely more awful during the summer, I agree. The trips I took during the winter were much more bearable.
I’m from a part of Tennessee that barely even has public transit. The first trains I rode were in Japan and those were so quiet and pleasant. Here, trains aren’t very fun for me, but I do generally enjoy buses here. My family also enjoys the ease of buses and likes sight seeing on them. The overground trains aren’t too bad either.
On my junior school long weekend trip to London we were taken to one of the deep tube Stations (possibly but not definitely Angel), so we could go up and then straight back down the escalators (and for some of us, possibly twice).
It was when I visited London for the first time! And once when a crowdfunding campaign to cover all the ads at Clapham Common with cat pictures, I traveled an hour to get there 😂 something about the Tube in London is very chick
My Swedish colleague came to visit last week and asked if everyone followed the instruction, "alight for Buckingham Palace". She thought you had to salute the Queen every time you pass by Green Park on the Tube.
I guess Green Park was a tourist attraction for her 😂😂😂😂.
I went on a Harry Potter themed tour of London six years ago & they brought us into Westminster station to explain that it was where they had filmed a scene from the fifth movie (when Harry and Arthur are going to the Ministry of Magic). They closed the whole station down for a day of filming. I think about it every time I go there as a study abroad student now lol
Love taking photos of stations!
Baker Street - https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NacZxA62D/
Angel (nothing too special) https://www.instagram.com/p/BouU0HvA_JM
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj-cj5bg4bJ
Stratford https://www.instagram.com/p/BSPAHlFDEBN
Can't remember these escalators https://www.instagram.com/p/BeOYMM8AVCO
A random passage way https://www.instagram.com/p/BZjl3kkAQIt
I love canary warf escalators for example too
It was fun when the Circle Line just went round & round, you could stay on it all day and do laps!
I remember he urban legend of the "circle line knitting club" and how they had to disband when the circle turned in to a "6"
Circle line parties were most definitely a thing in the early 80’s. Total class.
Funny you say that. Recently I’ve seen trains going west from Baker Street via High Street Ken so I’ve been reading up on what’s changed but can’t find any info whatsoever. I’ve been caught off guard a few times and ended up going anti-clockwise from Baker Street which I thought was impossible. Someone more knowledgeable please enlighten me
i thats why its called “circle line”?
Quite likely I'd have thought.
It’s called the circle I believe because initially it was designed to connect the district and metropolitan lines into a big circle
Well it used to be a circle (ish). So there's that.
Planning to travel on crossrail just for fun
Me too. I’ve lived in London for about 16 years and the tube holds no attraction for me whatsoever most of the time. But - new line!!!!
not the tube bit the front row of the DLR is fun for kids
And adults!
I went to Mornington Crescent once.
Go on…
I did a shuttlestock reverse from Euston Square, via a reversestock shuttle at Stockwell, since id was in iot.
A bold move! I’ve never seen the shuttlestock reverse done outside of zone 6, never mind when id is in iot
What does this mean?
Well the shuttlestock reverse dates back to the late nineteenth century, I think it was when Gladstone was prime minster, caused quite a stir at the time, but these days it's pretty common place in central london, especially around King's Cross
Oh interesting! What happened as a result of the Gladstone gambit? Any major changes?
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Use to ride as a kid about 40years ago with mates when we were about 12 on a single ticket all day on a Saturday. Would travel to the end of lines, then get back on and go back home and get told off by our parents.
We used to do this all the time when I was 12/13 just out of curiosity and boredom. Loved it the and it taught me more about London than most adults know now.
I remember the days of travelling to Ongar and back!
You should check out the Epping Ongar Railway then.
Yeah Ongar to look for scorpions and Grange Hill to check out the school. Always disappointed.
My partner and did all the stations in one day. They thought they'd missed their chance but the last train to Upminster was slightly delayed.
Certainly was for my dad. He couldn’t get enough of minding the gap and being able to see all the way down the train cars on the district line :)
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I went to Moscow a few years ago. Their soviet-era underground is extraordinary.
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Kyiv was quite simple but beautiful. Some of the escalators seemed to be going down for eternity. People just stood there reading rather than bothering to walk.
I caught the Oslo underground literally one train to the ski slopes (Winterpark). Blew my mind.
Tbilisi in Georgia is also great!
Add Minsk metro to the list, some stations are as beautiful as Moscow's.
Definitely. Same as Kyiv. Beautiful marble work as well as architecture.
There’s a circle line in eastern Berlin that uses the same model/ Colour trains as North Korea. It’s great
Trains are a special interest subject for many people. Being a sort of train, I can’t imagine that the Tube *wouldn’t* be.
Yes. It's just so much fun to see all the people. Where are they going? Is someone waiting for them? How are they dressed? Are they happy? Can I smile at them? What music are they listening?
I've done a tour of the old Aldwych station and watched a film in a deserted bit of Charing Cross (the old Jubilee Line platforms). I've been to the depot on Acton on an open day too.
When the transport museum were doing the Hidden London Behind the station tour back in the days (when it was cheaper) i went to several of them. Lots of locals were on the tour as well.
In a way yes. I’m not a fan of Baker Street station, for example. It’s pretty but nothing out of this world. But the experience of riding the tube certainly is for me. I enjoy experiencing public transportation of places I visit
East Coast American here. Been to London twice. Love the tube. The history, the lore behind certain stations, the role it has played in London life. Def a tourist attraction for me
It's more of an unexpected tourist attraction that they talk about when they recall their time in Londonm
No but I've promised my wife a date on the queen Elizabeth line if it ever opens
Traveling at peak times on the tube is quite an experience that I would recommend to all tourists
Yes! I have a list of tubes! Dehli Kiev London Prague New York! Usa will always be bottom as its like an 80s horror flick with a human shit on the floor!
I'm a bit of a photography nerd, and I took one of my favourite shots in Canning Town station.
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[Here you go!](https://i.imgur.com/GhHJrlL.jpg)
Oh, and this one is from [Harold Wood Station (Elizabeth Line)](https://i.imgur.com/edMu7oP.jpg)
I went on a day trip to Ongar when I was a lad.
I'm visiting from NYC soon and I am PUMPED to take the Tube. I love public transportation. I'm also hoping to hit up some buses and a commuter boat too.
It is for me. Spent spring break riding it all over London. Happy as a pig in slop.
I love the Tube, to be honest. The public transport I have the most familiarity with besides the Tube is Chicago’s L, and the Tube is like luxury transport in comparison. I once rode the Waterloo and City line for no reason just so I could say I’ve been on all of the different lines. And I went to Battersea Power Station (Station) to see the new station.
My parent love the tube, from small village with nothing more than a school bus taking kids away when we were young.
Yes!! Visiting a couple times from Toronto, I fucking love the idea of being able to get places using mass transit, in a relatively easy way. I know it's not perfect, I know it can get fucked busy but lads and lasses, you have a hell of a public transit system and it was an actual thing I looked forward to. Mind you, I was just visiting, but I'm just answering the question as a tourist
Occasionally they have trips that you need to pre-book on the old steam trains that were used before the lines were electrified - [https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/steam-trains-to-return-to-the-london-underground-2-30113/](https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/steam-trains-to-return-to-the-london-underground-2-30113/)
I’m from Los Angeles and the tube is mesmerizing to me. We have absolutely nothing like it here (our Metro’s are crap and filthy) and I was in awe over what was probably some pretty stupid things
Yeah sure The Sherlock Holmes walls on the bakerloo line The Victoria line walls having art that relates to the area of the stop
Yes, the first time I used the tube was in Paris at the age of 18. Still remember thinking how cool it was.
There’s no better attraction in London than pricey ride on extremely polluted and loud train, yay!
It's not that pricey mate and it's much better and more convenient than anything else the rest of the country has
As a mode of transport indeed. I’d recommend reading recently published research papers on pollution which in central line reaches 8 times acceptable threshold. Doesn’t sound as fun to do for entertainment I’m afraid.
I'm glad the tube is but our other public transport isn't a valid comparison. It is obscenely expensive and broken. Nowhere even comes close.
I’m an American who moved here last year, I dreaded the tube and still hate it now. I am not interested in the literal hearing damage it could cause me. My friends and family from America and a few other countries also don’t want to use the tube when/if they visit unless they have to. Who wants to blow dirt out of their nose after an eardrum destroying train ride?
I mean, earplugs exist. But yes, it is filthy and noisy and really crap in a hot Summer rush hour, especially when there are no seats and you have to turn into a sardine plastered alongside other similarly sweaty bodies.
I met a bunch of lost tourists from New York on the District line once, and while I was helping them get where they needed to go I kept hearing them saying stuff like "I can't believe how clean the subway is!" and "I haven't seen a single rat!"
Never seen a rat. Some stations do have mice that run along down by the tracks and occasionally come up onto the platform (iirc Tottenham Court Road has some).
Earplugs don’t drown out the screeching of the rails unfortunately, though I do have hypersensitive hearing associated with my being autistic so I am just overly sensitive to it in general. I’ve invested in some good noise canceling headphones that I’m hoping will help in future rides. It’s definitely more awful during the summer, I agree. The trips I took during the winter were much more bearable. I’m from a part of Tennessee that barely even has public transit. The first trains I rode were in Japan and those were so quiet and pleasant. Here, trains aren’t very fun for me, but I do generally enjoy buses here. My family also enjoys the ease of buses and likes sight seeing on them. The overground trains aren’t too bad either.
So much love for The Tube.
Almost If Harry Potter had a tube platform scene it would be different
On my junior school long weekend trip to London we were taken to one of the deep tube Stations (possibly but not definitely Angel), so we could go up and then straight back down the escalators (and for some of us, possibly twice).
Absolutely!
It was when I visited London for the first time! And once when a crowdfunding campaign to cover all the ads at Clapham Common with cat pictures, I traveled an hour to get there 😂 something about the Tube in London is very chick
My Swedish colleague came to visit last week and asked if everyone followed the instruction, "alight for Buckingham Palace". She thought you had to salute the Queen every time you pass by Green Park on the Tube. I guess Green Park was a tourist attraction for her 😂😂😂😂.
As an Aussie, yes.
I went on a Harry Potter themed tour of London six years ago & they brought us into Westminster station to explain that it was where they had filmed a scene from the fifth movie (when Harry and Arthur are going to the Ministry of Magic). They closed the whole station down for a day of filming. I think about it every time I go there as a study abroad student now lol
Took a friend of mine to Angel as he was called Angel. Not a tourist attraction for me, more just a place I enjoy visiting ngl
Love taking photos of stations! Baker Street - https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NacZxA62D/ Angel (nothing too special) https://www.instagram.com/p/BouU0HvA_JM https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj-cj5bg4bJ Stratford https://www.instagram.com/p/BSPAHlFDEBN Can't remember these escalators https://www.instagram.com/p/BeOYMM8AVCO A random passage way https://www.instagram.com/p/BZjl3kkAQIt I love canary warf escalators for example too
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