Thursday, April 24, 2014

14 Tube Stop Names You Need in Your Life

Who said blog posts have to always be about life-altering realizations? Take a trip with me, all you tens of readers, into the silliness that is London Tube stop names. In no particular order, here are a few of my favorite station titles:

I know your first question. Are there lots of hipster there? Well I don't know because I've been avoiding this place for that reason. (Jk, love your work Portland.)

The reason here is three-fold:
1. If I am to take my last name seriously, this is my crossing.
2. I pretty much always read it as "St. Pancreas" which makes me think of holy organs which leads to weird ideas for a new three-panel cartoon in the sunday paper.
3. Platform 9 & 3/4 lives here.

This mainly makes it on here because it reminds me of Hugh Grant's hair and the following scene (warning: contains cursing via t-shirt):


Fingers crossed that once I finally visit this stop I will find a castle full of elephants.

This is totally personal because to me Crystal Palace will only ever be a delicious reservation-only buffet right off of Main Street in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. And before you ask- yes it is a character dining experience and yes I have participated multiple times and yes here is photographic evidence:
Fingers crossed again that when I make it out to this station I'll find a host of Disney characters and breakfast foods waiting for me.


What. Does that mean.

Does Canada know you've got some of their water? They're probably ok with it since they give you black bear fur for your Queen's guards' hats. #shameonyou

#singingtree #newestDisneysidekick

It just sounds extra Englishy and I love it.

While I know that circus = traffic circle over here and that the University of Oxford is 60 miles away, I still picture a nerd version of Barnum & Baileys. Maybe they even hire out of the Elephant Castle.

This is for the 11-year-old boy in all of us.

Excuse me. London is full of old streets. What makes you so special?

They got all them spices.

I don't know if you were aware of not, but the UK has had a lot of monarchs. For some reason, this guy gets his own tube stop? Of course that current lady got Big Ben renamed after her, so I guess it evens out.

I love the Tube. It (mostly) runs well and (mostly) smells ok and (mostly) doesn't cost me an arm and a leg. The whole system recently turned 150 (woot woot necessary upgrades) and with it came this article of amazing fun facts. Peruse to your liking.

To public transportation,


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