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The western end of the north/westbound platform at South Harrow affords a very wide panorama. Gets my vote for best view on the Underground.
Marc | 16.11.12 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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Number 1 is number 1! The views up the Chess Valley are simply stunning. If you don't mind others adding theirs, here's one from me:
6) Gunnersbury - Kew Gardens: The lattice bridge over the Thames affords great views eastwards up the river and down to Strand-on-the-Green below.
THC | 16.11.12 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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1) I'm quite keen on the viaduct over Fincley Golf Course between Mill Hill East and Finchley Central
2) are you allowed to count views that don't exist any more? On the right hand side of the train as the train used to wait to go into Edgware station there is a marshy area which used to have relatively deep ponds there. you could regularly see herons suspiciously viewing the trains through the reeds billowing in the wind. However the ponds were filled in a few years ago when a local child drowned there and now it just looks like an ugly muddy patch of ground
Peewit | Homepage | 16.11.12 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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It's a pity the Epping - Ongar branch is no longer part of the Underground. Lots of country views and nice locations.
Agree with Peewit about the viaduct near Mill Hill East. Great views from the train as well as at ground level.
Bernie | 16.11.12 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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The view from Theydon Bois (to the south) is quite attractive with cows, horses, motorways.
Peter | 16.11.12 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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You can travel most of Epping to Ongar again - not by tube train - though the views will be reduced after 20 years of vegetation growth (saying that, I did travel on the line in its declining LT years and recall tree branches rattling along the train roof at a couple of places).
Gordon | 16.11.12 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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Some of the best views are unexpected - like the Jubilee Line from Wembley Park to Kingsbury - after the urban landscape of Wembley you suddenly get a brief view of Fryent Country Park
KissenMe | 16.11.12 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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on the Metropolitan Line between Watford and Croxley, where you get to look down onto the canal and the canal boats...
geofftech | Homepage | 16.11.12 - 10:25 a.m. | #
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I like the run out from Loughton to Epping. Very nice to see rolling fields plus, in the Spring, the yellow fields of rapeseed flowers.
I also like the climb out of Hammersmith and seeing over the rooftops of West London out to Acton Town on the Picc Line.
PC | 16.11.12 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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Just think that I used to enjoy geofftech's favourite view every day going to and from school.
I prefer the view on the right soon after leaving Moor Park for Croxley - looking across Croxley Moor and seeing where I spent most of my childhood.
popartist | 16.11.12 - 7:23 p.m. | #
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District line between Dagenham East and Elm Park - there is a lovely area of heathland called Eastbrookend Country Park. I remember looking out of the train and seeing a horse and rider standing on a hillock next to the line.
Siwi | Homepage | 16.11.12 - 7:58 p.m. | #
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Rayners Lane to South Harrow (picking up on Marc's initial comment on the view) over another viaduct: and halfway along there's a spur of redundant viaduct curving away to the north - always piqued the curiosity.
Gordon | 16.11.12 - 9:39 p.m. | #
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And the answer is that until the mid-1950s coal trains (on the Tube? - yes) used that spur to deliver their contents to Harrow Gasworks.
Gordon | 17.11.12 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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@popartist - I grew up in the middle of geofftech's favourite view! Were you a Watford Boys' Grammar student perchance?
THC | 18.11.12 - 5:10 p.m. | #
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THC - yes, over sixty years ago...
popartist | 18.11.12 - 10:48 p.m. | #
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On number four, in summer have a look for foxes basking in the sidings coming out of Parsons Green. Also the gun emplacement on the station at Putney Bridge.
GJ | 20.11.12 - 6:47 p.m. | #
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I don't know about anyone else but I love the views when you're about to go into a tunnel, particularly at Bow Road. I can never resist humming The Jam to myself then. (Going Undergroooooooooouuuuuuuuunuud!)
Tube Geek | 06.01.16 - 9:19 p.m. | #
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