Going underground...
Oct. 12th, 2003 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaNow then, you people who use the Underground. Especially regularly.
Some time ago, I commented to a London-dweller that I thought the mosaic effect in the long tunnel in Green Park was really clever. They looked blank. In Green Park station, there is a long tunnel you can walk down to get from the Piccadilly Line to the Jubilee line (or vice versa). At the Piccadilly end, its walls are white with occasional squares of Piccadilly blue. As you walk along, there are occasional Jubilee grey squares, which get more and more common, and eventually overrun the blue, as you reach the opposite end.
I've sporadically mentioned this to people who do this walk. So far, no one has ever noticed. Be honest: have you ever walked along there ? Did you notice ?
And I have another question: has anyone noticed that there are sometimes pictures on the walls of underground stations ? Many of these are obvious, like the silhouettes of Victoria and Sherlock Holmes at Victoria and Baker Street respectively. However, recent forays down the Victoria line have caused me to notice occasional rebus-like pictograms. There is, for example, a tiled image of a labyrinth at Warren Streen, and a pile of bricks at Brixton. Are there any more of these ? If not, why not, dammit ? And could we suggest any ?
Some time ago, I commented to a London-dweller that I thought the mosaic effect in the long tunnel in Green Park was really clever. They looked blank. In Green Park station, there is a long tunnel you can walk down to get from the Piccadilly Line to the Jubilee line (or vice versa). At the Piccadilly end, its walls are white with occasional squares of Piccadilly blue. As you walk along, there are occasional Jubilee grey squares, which get more and more common, and eventually overrun the blue, as you reach the opposite end.
I've sporadically mentioned this to people who do this walk. So far, no one has ever noticed. Be honest: have you ever walked along there ? Did you notice ?
And I have another question: has anyone noticed that there are sometimes pictures on the walls of underground stations ? Many of these are obvious, like the silhouettes of Victoria and Sherlock Holmes at Victoria and Baker Street respectively. However, recent forays down the Victoria line have caused me to notice occasional rebus-like pictograms. There is, for example, a tiled image of a labyrinth at Warren Streen, and a pile of bricks at Brixton. Are there any more of these ? If not, why not, dammit ? And could we suggest any ?
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Date: 2003-10-13 12:34 pm (UTC)And I find the subject of abandoned stations quite fascinating... (especially since I read Neverwhere. ;o)
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Date: 2003-10-13 01:41 pm (UTC)There's a really naff film - the title of which I do not recall - which IIRC has the premise that when they closed Museum station some people remained trapped underground, and "now" (many years later) emerge from the tunnels to kill. Great low-budget stuff. At the time I watched it (when living in London) I deduced it was filmed in a real station, but one on completely the wrong line. They had obviously replaced the station names, but the signs to exits / other lines remained. I can't remember now, but I think it was Russell Square.
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Regards,
Richard
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Date: 2003-10-13 02:05 pm (UTC)