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I always think the Jubilee line announcements sound both great and awful. An overreaching level of majesty that's somewhat unwarranted.

"This train is for... Wembley Park"
Green Park ... often smells somewhat of dank water

Oops. Enter pressed too soon. Meant to say Green Park smelling of dank water is probably because of the dank water being used there to cool the station down.

See here.
You should compile all of these vignettes into a book, you know.
The stretch of line around West Hampstead, Kilburn and Finchley Road is where I grew up although back then it was the Bakerloo line running 38 Stock.

One of my favourite local tube related facts is about Finchley Road station.

See here (Part 3).
I have many memories of the old Bakerloo line when I lived in Kingsbury in the 60's. Trains then were 1936 Cammell Laird stock but for some reason the last but one carriage was from 1926...always had to get into that one. Passing Neasden Depot on the left there was an LT Steam Engine used for shunting. Used to puff up and down the line hauling supplies right up to the 1970's. Remember seeing it passing Preston Road in 1965, unusual even then seeing a steam engine on the Underground. Also, going under the Iron Bridge at Neasden the train always felt like it was going to jump the tracks. In 1972 I was working at the Express Dairy (now closed) opposite West Hampstead Station. Great place for train spotting.
I remember the dairy next to West Hampstead station, you can see it here.
The photo was taken from the footbridge at the south end of the platforms, locally known as Granny Drippen Steps, and was a great place for watching the trains go by.
In the late 80s I lived in a house with a garden that had the Jubilee Line embankment at the end, between Wembley Park and Kingsbury with Barn Hill on the other side. I still miss the comforting rumble of the 1983 stock trains going past as I slept.
Am i right in thinking that the Jubilee Line is the only line that connects with all the other lines on the Underground?
I utterly agree with Andrew. Oh and next time you're in Stanmore try out Yosi's Bakery.
A lot of the Sherlock Holmes tiling is now being removed at Baker Street so enjoy it whilst you can!
The Met Line does occasionally make additional stops at Willesden Green if the Jubilee is broken.
Canary Wharf was also a backwater (and in some cases underwater) before the arrival of the Jubilee. I remember working there in the mid nineties when the only train out was the DLR. If you came from Stratford to the Wharf there was a very narrow platform at Stratford from where you could look out on some old industrial estates. Both areas radically different since the Jubilee arrived.
It's like our timing was planned!

Note to everyone : it wasn't.

i still "love" the step-free access at Stanmore.

Off the road, and doewn a loooooong ramped road into the carpark. Navigate around some white barriers that are in the way, and possibly some cars, and zig zag your way across to the corner where there's a ramp, u-turn, ramp, u-turn, ramp, u-turn and then a ramp again. Up a sloped path, turb, slong, through a chicane in the path, and down a loooong sloping ramp again, corner, corner, and finally to the ticket barrier area. Welcome to Stamore - stepfree style - and at least five minutes after able bodied people got there.
thanks for the details, Geofftech. I wasn't even aware of this alternative but I'll probably continue to use the stairs, though there are so many of them. and it's quite a walk to/from the town centre, but I think Stanmore is more attractive than some of the other "end of the line" places
kissenme
Canary Wharf certainly wasn't a backwater by late 99 when the Jubilee Line extension opened; as someone who used the DLR during that period, the trains to Bank were horribly overcrowded by then!
Ed, not any more. The Northern has a full set of interchanges (formerly everything except the East London) and the District had one last summer when tickets were accepted changing between Aldgate East and Aldgate.
Ed
When the East London Line was part of the Underground the Jubilee was indeed the only line which connected with all the others - strangely, when stage 1 opened, it and the District were the only two which did NOT meet! (at that time the ELL and H&C were both considered part of the Metropolitan, and the W&C was not part of the Underground)

Now that the ELL has jumped ship, the Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee and Northern all have a full set of interchanges - the usual omission is the W&C. The District meets the W&C, but fails to meet the Met.
As someone who grew up largely in Swiss Cottage, and used this line to head into town, it still seems a bit strange that Charing Cross is no longer a Jubilee Line station.
"far more of a 20th century mixed bag than any other line"

Objection!

The Piccadilly line runs over an 1840s bit (Turnham Green to Hammersmith), an 1870s bit (Ealing Common to Turnham Green and Hammersmith to Barons Court), an 1880s bit (Hounslow West to Acton Town), a 1900s bit (Uxbridge to Rayners Lane, South Harrow to Ealing Common and Barons Court to Finsbury Park), a 1910s bit (Rayners Lane to South Harrow), a 1930s bit (Finsbury Park to Cockfosters), a 1970s bit (Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 to Hounslow West), a 1980s bit (Heathrow Terminal 4 to Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3) and a 2000s bit (Heathrow Terminal 5 to Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3).
the ground water cooling at green park is in a closed system and never meets the station air... so not sure that is the reason for the dank air...
Re: swirlythingy
While the Picc seems to have its line opening dates spanning much wider than the Jubilee, everything later than 1970 seems exclusive to the mighty Heathrow Airport. Apart from that, it probably was even less varied than the Northern.

By comparison, the share of lines on the Jubilee between different eras are more evenly spread-out.










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