I seem to be fast developing a thing for tube and train stations. Anyone who knows me will know that I’ve always had various fixations or obsessions. It’s usually something in the media, like Star Trek or James Bond. Recently though I have started to get excited about railway stations, especially here in east London. Of course I use systems like this DLR and jubilee line fairly regularly, and I have begun to notice how each station on the various lines is different. They all have their own architecture, so they must all have been designed separately. Some of them are astonishing feats of engineering. For example, now that the Elizabeth Line is open, Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road stations are nothing less than three-dimensional labyrinths of corridors, lifts, escalators and platforms; to have that all going on under Central London is surely incredible. To be honest I find it mind blowing that such an elaborate public transport system could ever have been created, and it only adds to my love of, and fascination with, London in general.