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There's another Leslie Green station, or should I say ex-station, between Kentish Town and Camden Town - the building remains but I think it's now a Cash Converters.
As a former (weekday) user of Mornington Crescent station, I can confirm that if you start your way up the stairs just as the lift doors are closing on your fellow passengers, you will usually reach the entrance hall before them.

This is more a reflection on the slowness of the lift than the swiftness of the stair user.
DR: That station was "Kentish Town South". It used to be a Motorbike shop, as I recall.

There's still one of his buildings at Euston station, but used for ventilation only these days.
Re point (6). The "original" Beck tube shows the correct side for MC.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2009/11/26/1259233799113/Original-drawing-for-the--005.jpg
There is another Northern line station with lifts to the platforms: Elephant & Castle.
My favourite station on the whole tube network, although it's been years since I've been here. Love it to bits. But not on a Sunday.
I remember hearing on the Radio 4 tribute to Humphrey Lyttleton that on his death, a few folk left flowers at Mornington Crescent.
Between 1925 and 1966 only trains to and from the Highgate branch (not the Edgware branch) called at MC, a complexity that Beck valiantly tried to illustrate on his diagram. This, together with the fact that no City branch trains called at MC, made it a confusing place to get to - the uninitiated could shuttle back and forth between Camden Town and Euston several times before succesfully calling at MC, variously passing through npon-stop or not seeing it at all. I had always assumed that it was this quirk that inspired the game.
Why did Edgware branch trains on the Charing Cross branch not call there?
I don't know, but it might have been an attempt to try to equalise the loadings between the Edgware and Highgate trains (before the Northern Heights extensions of the 1940s, there were nine stations on the Edgware branch but only three on the Highgate (i.e present-day Archway) branch
Apoloigies for going slightly off topic, but has anyone else seen the "new" series of I-SPY books ("sponsored" by Michelin)?

I picked up the one about London's Transport free from my local Tesco Express with a Daily Telegraph coupon last Saturday.

It has 12 pages about "Buses"; 14 pages about "The Underground"; and 8 pages about "Yesterday and Today".

One part of the last covers Green tiles - a very tenuous link to the topic!
Best online Mornington Crescent website can be found at

http://parslow.com/mornington/
Another Northern line station with lifts to the platforms is Elephant & Castle.
and there are lifts to the Northern line platforms at Bank as well, though they aren't the only way to reach the platforms.
Are the lifts the only way to reach any Underground platform?
presumably you mean excluding the emergency stairs, Andrew. Covent Garden, Queensway, and various others which aren't interchanges. but at those where the stairs aren't too long, this gives a good alternative to waiting for the lift
No, I was not excluding stairs that are usually open to the public. I've walked up and down the stairs at Covent Garden as an alternative to the lift. Are there any stations where there is no option but to wait for the lift (for example, where the emergency stairs are usually not open to the public)?










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