A day on the Metropolitan Line

Martin Belam  by , September 3, 2020

Don’t tell me I don’t know how to have fun while on holiday – today I’ve spent the day mooching around the far end of the Metropolitan Line, taking pics of the station architecture and infrastructure, listening to great music on my headphones (Nadine Shah, OMD, Klaus Nomi, Sparks, bdrmm) and generally nerding out in a very nerdy way.

Me, being a nerd

The train to Chesham from Liverpool Street

The old signal box at Chesham

Croxley Station exterior

Croxley Station with beautiful old feature lamp posts on the platform

The Metropolitan Line diagram

Moor Park station, a key interchange to reach all the different branches

Metropolitan Line sign at Watford station

Watford Station exterior

Watford Station branch terminus

I’m staying overnight in Amersham, and then will visit the Uxbridge branch tomorrow 🙌

Martin Belam  by Martin Belam, September 3, 2020
I do live blogging, news stories and quizzes at the Guardian, and help cover Eurovision and Doctor Who for them too. As a journalist and designer I’ve spent over twenty years building digital products for the likes of Sony, the Guardian, the BBC, the Natural History Museum, Arts Council England and Reach (formerly Trinity Mirror). You can contact me at martin.belam@theguardian.com. Sign up to get my blog posts sent to you via email.