Thursday 29 August – Queen’s Road Peckham (Square E6 on the Tube map), Queensway (C4), Ravenscourt Park (D3), Rayners Lane (B2), Redbridge (B8), Regent’s Park (C4)
It has been a minor but enduring disappointment of TubeforLOLs that the last entry on TfL’s ‘Index to stations’ is Woolwich Arsenal. This, I should hasten to add, is a purely alphabetic anti-climax, not a comment on that particular locality. Why, I wonder in this great city of ours, this city of hard-working families, hermit-like celebrities, honest politicians and humble bankers, this city where we are all in it together, do we have no Tube stations beginning with ‘X’ or ‘Y’, far less ‘Z’? Beijing has its Xiju station, Tokyo has a whole train-line beginning with ‘Y’, Berlin has its Zoo Station. Why not London? Well – stop scratching your toupee, Borisconi – I have a solution.
However, these alphabetic speculations are over-shadowed by the great excitement of the day … Continue reading
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