The brass bands play and the feet start to pound…we’re going underground.
This picture made me smile.
Balham tube station changes line....
Balham tube is on the common or garden and perhaps a smidge grotty Northern line. Computer malfunction or more likely post-New Year (hung over?) operator error appears to have relocated it temporarily onto the far posher and recently lavishly developed Jubilee line. I think its fair to say that Balham has come up in the world in recent times (hey, I live there!!) and probably has further “aspirations” but changing tube lines is surely beyond even this Hyacinth Bouquet of neighbourhoods.
My simple pleasure at this simple error is made greater by the fact that I discovered it on london-underground “Going Underground” blog . If you have any tube type itch that needs scratching this is the place to head to. It has a mole-like nature, happiest when deep below the London streets and only occassionally and reluctantly coming above ground, blinking in the daylight. It’s clearly the work of a slight obsessive, but it’s also amused by, and amusing about, all things underground and so comfortably transcends the nerdy. Time Out made london-underground one London’s Top 50 websites. I’d put it well towards the top of that list. It has a great and unusual persective on the city.