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They've removed the photo booth in the ticket hall. They did it about two weeks ago but it's been so busy here I didn't have time to mention it before.
Monday 10th May
The three short blue walls have suddenly been covered by an epidemic of small white stickers. Lots more safety signs are on their way.
Tuesday 11th May
Blimey that was quick. Almost all of the stickers have now been covered by the usual selection of over-the-top safety signs.
Wednesday 12th May
Another new blue wall has appeared, this time at the top of the stairs down to the westbound platform. I think there was a door there before. Now there's a corrugated sheet of ridged metal, just like the very first blue wall round the portakabins on the pavement outside the station.
Thursday 13th May
The new blue wall has only two signs on it - 'Surveillance cameras in constant operation and a licence permitting the wall to be there in the first place.
Friday 14th May
Another new blue wall has appeared, this time outside the station replacing the previous metal railings around the scaffolding.
Saturday 15th May
The new blue wall takes up half the space on the pavement that the old metal railings did.
Sunday 16th May
The new blue wall is opaque, whereas you could see through the old metal railings. Which means you can no longer see the only poster that advises travellers the station is closed after 10pm and tells them where to go instead.
Monday 17th May
The 'alternative travel arrangements' poster has been relocated in full view on the front of the blue wall, along with space for three more posters.
Tuesday 18th May
A 'No smoking' sign has appeared on the side of the new blue wall. Meanwhile two posters have finally been added to the very first blue wall (the one beside the station entrance surrounding the blue portakabins).
Wednesday 19th May
The scaffolding across the front of the station has been obscured by grey sheeting.
Thursday 20th May
The big blue station sign has been moved from behind the sheeting to in front of the scaffolding. The big blue sign still reads
Bow Road Station : District & Metropolitan lines
Bow Road has not been on the Metropolitan line since 1990.
Friday 21st May
Yet another new blue wall has been built, this one just inside the ticket hall to the left of the entrance. It's 7 panels long, right where the photo booth used to be.
Cerulean, azure, lapis, indigo?
The grey protective sheeting behind the blue walls on the westbound platform has been raised to ceiling level, obscuring whatever may be going on behind.
Peeking through the tiny gaps in the blue wall on the westbound platform reveals that still absolutely nothing is going on behind.
Two long yellow lamps have been installed beneath the scaffolding over the entrance to the station.
A hole the size of two half bricks has been cut in the wall at the top of the stairs down to the westbound platform. The hole partly obscures the top left hand corner of a new 'No Smoking' sign, so workmen have helpfully posted another 'No Smoking' sign next to it, ten times the area of the original.
Six white stickers have appeared on the blue wall in the ticket hall - which means even more essential safety signs are on their way.
One white sticker has appeared on the blue wall at the top of the westbound stairs.
Six white stickers have appeared on the longest blue wall on the westbound platform.
There are still two stickers on the second longest westbound wall...
... one sticker on the shortest westbound wall...
... two stickers on the shorter eastbound wall...
... and one sticker on the longer eastbound wall.
I took the last train out of Bow Road at 9:57pm. As we pulled out, the station attendant opened up a tube map on the wall to reveal a big sign saying 'station closed'. No workmen rushed onto the platform.
I rode a nightbus past the station at 1:30am. The lights were on in the station, in the portakabin and across the scaffolding on the front of the building. Two vans were parked on the forecourt and workmen were standing around working. No really. They appeared to be affixing a new poster to the blue wall on the front of the station.
No, they were actually installing six light fittings on the blue wall.
There are now orange bulbs inside the light fittings.
The lights are not yet lit.
The lights are now lit. They're very orange.
The giant 'No Smoking' sign at the top of the westbound stairs has been moved to cover over the small hole behind.
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