My Wife and I were out in London on Saturday celebrating freedom again now that the kids are both packed off to University. We had a good walk around some nice lunch a few drinks and then dinner in a posh Mexican restaurant in Bermondsey. At around 8pm we headed back to Paddington to make the journey home via a fast train to Reading however when we got there the concourse was packed and every platform had a train in it, going nowhere, apparently there had been some kind of incident up the line and nothing was moving. Luckily for us we can also use Waterloo to get home so we hopped on the Bakerloo line and fled the scene down to Waterloo station and a (slow) train home, still managed to get in around 9:45 pm so not too bad. The photo's above show Waterloo station in the early 1900's (top) and the modern view (bottom) it's the busiest station in the UK with 24 platforms and around 40 million movements per year. Our own station (Reading) always seems really busy but only ranks 27th with 9 million movements per year and Paddington is 6th with 23 million.
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