The Watts Church Crawl (Part the 20th) Tower Hill July 22, 2021Since it’s opening in 1884, the name Tower Hill has been applied to no less than three stations in this vicinity: The first Tower Hill (I), (on which the present Tower Hill...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Nineteenth) Aldgate July 22, 2021Continuing round we come to Aldgate: the only station which is passed through solely by the Circle line (it is also the terminus of the Metropolitan line). Of itself, it is a...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Eighteenth) Liverpool Street July 22, 2021Another very bustling, very busy station; the gateway to East Anglia. It has had something of a checkered history since its opening. It replaced an earlier station (Bishopsgate) in 1874, which...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Seventeenth) Moorgate July 22, 2021Service has been somewhat slow (it’s our busy time, after all), and here we finally are at Moorgate, which turns out to be an hotbed of Non-conformism, which looking at...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Sixteenth) Barbican July 22, 2021There is, it must be said, something depressing about Barbican station. It was somewhat dilapidated (well, it was a bombsite until the 80s); there have also been one or two...
The Watts Church Crawl (Part the Fifteenth) Farringdon July 22, 2021Located in Clerkenwell, Islington, Farringdon station was the original terminus of the Metropolitan Railway, when it was opened in 1863. At the present time, it is not a station of great importance,...
