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ValleyLines142

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Walking around the corner to the Nags Head, we then board the 1537 Metroline service 43 to Friern Barnet (Library), arriving there at 1627 on Monday afternoon.
 

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Boarding the 16:35 Arriva London North service 221 we peruse the list of destinations. Few leap out and grab us until we see the immortal name of the capitalist utopia that is the "Wood Green Shopping City". An entire city for shopping! Such decadence! Acres upon acres dedicated entirely to the process of bartering! Are these the last days of Sodom?
Twenty odd minutes later the only real question we have is how such a run-down dystopian edifice that would barely be tolerated in the most backwater-y of provincial towns has somehow managed to survive in zone 3.
With an existential groan we alight at the Wood Green Shopping City at 16:54 on this Monday afternoon.
 
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We then board the 1700 Arriva London service 184 to Barnet (Chesterfield Road/Bells Hill), arriving there at 1804 on Monday evening.
 

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Entering the tube station, we then board the 1908 Piccadilly Line service to Osterley, arriving there at 2020 on Monday evening.
 

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There really is no point being here as the shops are all shut, so we board the 0030 London Sovereign service 326 to Totteridge & Whetstone Station, arriving there at 0052 in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
 

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Sprinting down the stairs to the southbound platform of the station; by some stretch of a miracle we manage to catch the very last southbound train all the way to the terminus at East Finchley; where we arrive at 01:03 on this Tuesday morning
 

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Next from the stop on Whitehall we join the 0158 Abellio London service N3 to Beckenham, War Memorial, arriving at 0243 on Tuesday morning.
 

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We next board the 0335 Go-Ahead London service 119 to South Croydon, Swan and Sugar Loaf, arriving at 0405 on Tuesday morning.
 

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We then board the 0411 London Central service N68 to Elephant & Castle (Tabernacle), arriving there at 0502 on Tuesday morning.
 

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Leaving the capital behind for now, we enter the station and board the 0527 Thameslink service to Sevenoaks, arriving at 0627 on Tuesday morning.
 

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We then board the 1149 Arriva Kent and Surrey service 308 to Gravesend (Railway Station), arriving there at 1252 on Tuesday afternoon.
 

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After a brief lunchtime sample of the wares of Shepherd Neame (which is mandatory in Faversham; just like a hot dog in New York; chicken rice in Singapore or a Wasabi at Waterloo) we head for more pastoral climes. Boarding 1S38 at 14:24; we travel to the cosmopolitan hub of Snowdown; where we arrive at 14:52 this Tuesday afternoon
 

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We then board the 1740 Stagecoach South East service 14 to Canterbury (Bus Station), arriving there at 1900 on Tuesday evening.
 

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