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I went 2 weeks ago - brilliant. You get to see the platform and passages closed in 1923, plus some parts that were half-completed in anticipation of much greater usage and have only just been made safe for public access. All very exhilarating. No train though. That's shuffled off to...

The formation was built on the cheap 145 years ago with sharp curves following the roads and steep gradients over the Regent's canal. And the track is in serious need of renewal. Unlike the adjacent Chiltern line out of Marylebone which was built as a proper railway. The best we can hope...

Not exaggerating at all. Merely pointing out the inherently catastrophic nature of capitalist-inspired automatic trains designed to remove all drivers and smash the unions. I was on a Jubilee train yesterday that came to a dramatic stop only metres from the train in front, and I really thought...

Barnoldswick – pronounced Barlick

Go by bus. Everywhere in London has excellent, frequent and efficient bus services. Arm yourself with a bus map and a 7-day Oyster bus & tram pass for £17.80, see http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14415.aspx. Then hop on, hop off at will – doesn't matter if you get on the wrong one, just go back...

1 Freedom Passes can be used in any zone, including 7-9 on the Met and even Watford Junction via Overground! Some little compensation for passing 60... 2 There's the outsidest of chances than the Charing Cross platforms could reopen if DLR's aspirations for a Bank-Victoria extension re-using...

In Bakerloo days (pre-1978), and early days of the Jubilee, after the last tube, a couple of Metropolitan Line trains called at Willesden Green and Neasden on the fast line, and one or two others transferred to the slow line either just before or just after Finchley Road, calling at all...

We have just about every combination of overhead and 3rd or 4th rail in London tunnels. The Thameslink (First Capital Connect, call it what you will) service runs in the "Metropolitan Widened Lines" between King's Cross and Moorgate (of course the section between Farringdon and Moorgate no...

I'd also recommend the Croydon tram network. It's in zones 3-5. You could get Thameslink direct from Elstree to Wimbledon, or the District Line from Edgware Road or Charing Cross etc, or fast trains from Waterloo. Then go on the tram to New Addington or Beckenham Junction. This runs through...