the Victoria Line is used by over 200
million passengers a year carried along
by 47 new trains and is the only tube
line to run entirely underground but I
bet that even if you're a frequent
travel on the line the chances are
you're not have spotted some of the more
unusual things about it so we're going
to ride the entire length of the
Victoria Line standing here at Wharf ins
know and try and find one interesting
thing about all 16 stations
let's go so this is my favorite thing
about Wolfson stow station the old which
train is next indicator it was big it
lit up you can see it from a distance as
you came down the escalator and the
modern equivalent see is having a few
troubles today as its there's two trains
in but I don't know which one to get now
you might think that all the toy line
stations look the same but in fact they
all have individual tiling motifs Black
Horse Road station for example has the
most obvious with a black horse and if
you don't let them on that platform
level then there's this big bad boy
outside the station itself it has life
size in it and Seven Sisters look out
for staff getting on at the terminating
platform to be taken to the nearby
Northumberland Park Depot oh and the
moti
but Seven Sisters the last seven of them
a quick bit of online research though
reveals that this motif represents the
seven elm trees that were planted at the
nearby page green from where Seven
Sisters gets its name you follow me
I've always worked like this
oh hi a balloon is a
another oddity is at Finsbury Park is
the busiest station in terms of
passengers on the Underground that
doesn't have any oyster barriers you can
get all the way to the platform without
touching in just one at Highbury &
Islington look out on the other side of
the road for the Great Northern and City
Railway original station building it
opened in 1904 and lasted until 1975 but
the building still stands today and on
to Kings Cross where it's not so much a
thing to see but something which you
might like to know about to do if you
follow the official station signs of how
to change the other lines then they make
you walk down this really long corridor
and it takes ages to get there look for
us if we instead go this way it brings
you down this short stairway instead
and it's much quicker art on the
underground are currently installing 270
labyrinths all around the London
Underground network this year but at one
station there's already one about Warren
Street and obviously there's a maze or
Warren on the wall or is it a labyrinth
but while you're here there's something
else to look out for as well my favorite
thing about Warren Street is if you pull
over to the normal line platforms you'll
find out that it once wasn't called
Warren Street but in 1907 with called
Houston Road instead and onto Greene
Park where at the end of the Victoria
Line corridor is the Piccadilly line
corridor at the Piccadilly end there are
more dark blue tiles and only the odd
silver tile to represent the Jubilee
Line on the time he reached the other
end of the corridor
now the corridors quite long so we'll do
the whole speed it up routine again and
we're there the member of blue tiles
have diminished and the number of silver
tiles to represent the Jubilee Line have
increased at Piccadilly the Jubilee
just by one of the exits of the tube at
Victoria Station itself is a gorgeous
old railway map from the London Brighton
and South Coast Railway worth checking
out
PIPA codes the least-used station logic
to our line I'm guessing you probably
not been here but what I like about this
is that you come to the rampage through
entrance there's a London Underground
around all sort of burn into the
concrete on the floor here you can look
up you'll see where it's coming from now
some of the Talmud egg patterns on
Victoria Line stations are hard to
account what they are and at a first
glance you might not guess this one
either it's stuck well but take a closer
look and you can see it's a swan a very
obvious reference to the popular swan
pub across the road from the station
we've got to the southern end of the
Victoria Line you come to Brixton where
you can outside and look at a station
building you can't fail to miss the
largest London Underground roundel on
the whole tube network quite a fitting
end to our journey
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