eThanks to the weather, and trees falling over, midnightxpress  was late into KX. The objective for the day was to collect as many stations as possible within Zone 2, and try to get as many of the ones suggested as possible. These were: St John's Wood, Bank/Monument, Pudding Mill Lane, & Kensignton (Olympia).

It was midnightxpress  that suggested St John's Wood so G and I head there first via the Hammersmith & City that allows us to knock out Euston Square and Great Portland Street on the way. GPS has beautiful brick arches that have weathered over the years of water dripping through them. ( the weather is not our friend )

the globe lights floating in the Great Portland Street ticket Hall remind me of the communication globes that the Ood use in Docty Who..


from Baker Street, marvellous creaky, old fashioned Baker Street of tunnels and pillars, we switch to the Jubilee Line northbound...



St John's Wood is much more 30's after the Victorian tunnelling we've just been wandering through at Baker Street. There are glowing roundels at the base of the escalators, and the escalators themselves have bronze uplighters in the shpe of Doric colomuns with searchlights attached. it's very Age of the Cinema...these are uplighters to sweep the skies in front the Chinese Theatre...Busby Berkeley could set up dance routines with girls in spangles dancing down the central stairs.




Outside it's raining. The municipal planting is being lashed flat...we get the exterior shot as best we can, and dive back underground


There follows a debate of where to go next...and after considerable discussion we chose towards Shepherd's Bush as I need a manicure before I start new job and we can take up a few stations on the Central Line in the process, beginning with Bond Street which doesn't have a surface station so we can stay warm and dry.