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So, like, what's the windiest tube station?

zcrookesy

Posted by zcrookesy about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 17 responses

And by windy i don’t mean: a) bendy passageways or curving corridors b) windypops windy, like the kind humans create as a byproduct. I mean ‘windy’ as in ’’yikes, hold onto your hat, that’s a strong wind…’‘ The warm, polluted, sudden kind that is oh so particular to london tube stations and makes you want to wash your face, hair, mouth, eyeballs, ears etc out afterwards. My vote goes to Shepherds Bush, central line. Christ, that’s a windy station. Coming up those stairs is an Ellen McArthur type feat. Any other votes? The rules: - has to be underground, not an outside station such as Acton Town (v windy, but it doesn’t count) - be really, really, mind bogglingly windy.

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17 responses

NARDINI

South Ken – by the lifts. At least, it used to feel like a putrid blast of hot air straight from the centre of Cairo in mid-August hitting you in the face. That’s my recollection anyway.

Posted about 1 year ago by NARDINI

cobo04premium

Shepards Bush (Central Line) on the central line platform. When a tube comes in the air movement is a lot worse than any other platform I’ve been on (and I’ve been on quite a number, as most here have).

Not sure why this is at this station but there you go.

Posted about 1 year ago by cobo04

plum

Kentish Town! Unbelievable. You could test jet engines on those stairs.

Posted about 1 year ago by plum

Petal

There’s one corridor in Holborn which is always windy, but the corridors on either side don’t seem to be. Very strange.

Posted about 1 year ago by Petal

________

Another vote for Kentish Town at the bottom of the escalators – windy and cold with it.

Posted about 1 year ago by ________

lalalucy

Kentish town and Camden as far I know. Going up the escalators in the winter is not fun with all that freezing cold air rushing at you. I’d say pretty much any station where the escalators lead straight to the exit is gonna be pretty uncomfortable. Quite refreshing in the summer though innit.

Posted about 1 year ago by lalalucy

Simone

Oof, Holloway Road on the stairs.

Posted about 1 year ago by Simone

Mamfer

As an aside, the reason that the Jubilee Line has those wacky you-can’t-top-yourself double doors is because the tunnels are so windy.

As you were.

Posted about 1 year ago by Mamfer

ellen

Kentish Town! Anywhere around the escalators, when you least expect it… especially near the top, I find.

Posted about 1 year ago by ellen

Biscuits

My lovely friend is extremely unhairy and only needs to shave her legs every few months. In summer, she knows it’s time to reach for her razor when she can feel them wafting in the breeze as a tube approaches the platform.

Posted about 1 year ago by Biscuits

Busstopboxer

Shepherd’s Bush Central Line – you almost get blown off the escalator trying to get out of the place!

Posted about 1 year ago by Busstopboxer

Kats

I would vote for either Charing Cross (coming up the stairs onto the south side of the Strand) or Clapham Common (either exit really, there’s little to choose between them).

Charing Cross has the added joy of peeing down on you when it’s raining. Which is fun.

Posted about 1 year ago by Kats

LittleEmily

Im adding to the votes for kentish town by the escilators. Deffinatly the windiest station I know.

Posted about 1 year ago by LittleEmily

zcrookesy

Thanks kids – I may check out kentish town sometime so I can establish if it really is as windy as Sheppers B. A challenge. Love the fact about jubilee line, mamfer, love it!

Posted about 1 year ago by zcrookesy

Floatykatja

Yep, Kentish Town is dead windy. Kilburn Park always has a howling gale as you come up the escalators, too.

Posted about 1 year ago by Floatykatja

vapourtrail

Tooting Bec – It blows away my cobwebs every morning!

Posted about 1 year ago by vapourtrail

Plum1976

Tottenham Court Road on the central line platforms. Blew my hat right off one day. It was only thanks to a quick thinking business man who jumped on it that I didn’t have a fried fedora…..

Posted about 1 year ago by Plum1976