Diamond Geezer has embarked on an orgy of tubularity. Put another way, he's spending five days exploring aspects of the Underground. He begins on a critical note:
King's Cross Nightmare 1: mainline station → Victoria Line
It used to be simple. You alighted from your train down from Peterborough, Edinburgh or wherever, and an entrance on the main concourse directed you down to the ticket hall at the top of the Victoria line escalators. Not any more. That entrance has been filled in and replaced by seating, and a new entrance opened up in a wall to the west. Come this way, it beckons, seductively. And then at the foot of the stairs there's this illuminated sign, installed by utter bastard sadists. Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan lines to the left, and Norrthern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines to the right. So you turn to the right, because you trust signs like this. Big mistake.
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