please empty your brain below
You spend too much time in Tube stations. You should get out less.

Alan | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 8:52 a.m. | #

A couple of points:

The intechange between Bank and Monument is much shorter if you go from the Central to Circle Lines via the Northern Line platforms. It saves you having to descend into the bowels of hell that are the DLR platforms and is a good few minutes quicker.

The platforms at Camden Town always used to confuse me. At Euston it's simple - whether you are going north or south you are either on the Bank branch or the Charing X branch. At Camden Town, though, if you are going south the platform name changes depending on what train you're on. So it is entirely possible that at the same time the station will have two Bank branch platforms. Bloody ridiculous.

Dave | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 9:02 a.m. | #

Elephant & Castle. Must have been two separate stations originally - it's a long walk from the Northern Line to Bakerloo (or vice versa) down some crumbling, seedy passage ways.

Elsie | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 9:15 a.m. | #

What about the easy interchange at Oxford Circus between the Victoria and Bakerloo lines?

There's just a short tunnel connecting the two. Although I think I can only confirm that is the case when you are going north/west bound.

Louise | 12.11.04 - 9:20 a.m. | #

You have to include the nonsense that's currently going on at Kings Cross, where, if you want to change from the Northern/Piccadilly/Victoria lines to the Circle/Hammersmith & City/Metropolitan lines at certain times of the day they block off the short cut that would lead you directly to the top of the stairs down into the C/H/M lines area and make you walk the long way round.

In reverse, there's an open gate at the set of barriers between the main N/P/V hall and the C/H/M area which would make it very easy to just nip through to get to the N/P/V lines, but no, you have to walk the long way round.

Not that I'm bitter, of course.

pix | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 9:25 a.m. | #

There a trick for Paddington though (says the person who uses the national rail lines there). If you want H&C when on the main shed platforms (1-11) you should walk away from the concourse and use the footbridge. Almost no-one does, but it gets you onto the H&C in under two minutes. Sadly the new barriers mean you can't do that on a travelcard.

Mags | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 9:27 a.m. | #

Louise -- Oxford Circus going southbound is a doddle too.

And the good thing about Paddington is that if you're getting off a train that comes in on platforms 12,13 or 14 (usually local trains from Greenford, Slough etc), you can turn left, cross the footbridge and go down to the H&C platforms without even going through a ticket barrier!

quin | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 10:18 a.m. | #

From next Sunday, another headache interchange is going to be between BR and Victoria line services at Seven Sisters - the escalators from the Seven Sisters Road entrance (which also feeds in directly from the overground platforms) is to be closed until 2006 for escalator work. This leaves anybody wanting to travel between the two services with a 200 yard walk out of the station entrance at Seven Sisters Road,a dodge across several rat-run road exits and into the High Road entrances.
It's a five or six minute performance, but a LOT of commuters transfer from southbound WAGN trains to the tube in the morning peaks - and once they've done dodging the wineos and crackheads of Seven Sisters Road for a few cold rainy days running, most I suspect will give up and go right into Liverpool Street and transfer to the Central Line there for the west end. So expect it to get even busier at that end!

Nico | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 11:37 a.m. | #

Isn't the change from the Central to the Northern (or vice versa) at Tottenham Court Road a marathon hike? I thought it was. At least that was the reason I'd always given myself for not moving to anywhere on the Northern Line, when my place of work is on the Central.

I've always found it interesting that they don't show Shepherds Bush as an interchange on the tube map, despite the fact that you can change between the Central and Hammersmith & Shitty lines, provided you don't mind talking along the sunny (ahem) side of Shepherds Bush Green.

Vaughan | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 12:46 p.m. | #

I had thought that you could only change at Shepherd's Bush on a travelcard. Regular tickets wouldn't allow it the last time I tried.

Central to Northern is a breeze at TCR, if you ignore the signs. There's a very direct link at the east end of the eastbound platform to the north end of the southbound platform.

Euston is a breeze between the Victoria and the Bank branch of the Northern (so long as you want north to north or south to south), but a pain between either of those and the C+ branch.

Chz | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 1:12 p.m. | #

Additonal point:
Holborn really sucks as an interchange, too. Not as much as Green Park, mind you... Is there a fast way between the Victoria and Jubilee platforms? I would have thought it was impossible to build a three-way interchange where it's hard to go between *any* of the platforms.

And if you think it's a long way to the Central from Monument, try getting to the Drain.

Chz | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 1:16 p.m. | #

I'm saving 'Holborn really sucks' for a future blog post. Just not this week.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.11.04 - 6:35 p.m. | #

I scored hopelessly on the quiz... It's about time I revisited the old place..So much seems to have changed

david | Homepage | 02.10.11 - 2:54 p.m. | #











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