Much strangeness on the Tube tonight... 
Upon alighting from the last train to Edgware, the northernmost extremity of one branch of the Northern Line, I was heading towards the stairs when I was approached by a chap who had alighted from the carriage before mine and had then been wandering about the platform near the stairs, apparently in some confusion (closely but surreptitiously observed by myself as I headed towards his wandering zone - you never know what people are going to do at this time of night).
He excused himself in a polite and reasonably sober tone, explaining that he had planned to travel to Edgware Road, but now found himself here in Edgware, and wondered if I knew whether there were any more trains to his intended destination
Glancing at the electronic destination signs, I explained that he could get back on the train we'd just alighted from to travel as far as Golders Green, but he'd then have to take a night bus. He seemed eager to please, stating with some enthusiasm that he could take a night bus (the way somebody might say that they'd passed the eleven plus, or had a swimming certificate), but wondered if there were night buses from Edgware?
I assured him that there were, but that I had no knowledge of their stops or schedules; luckily, a London Underground employee came wandering by at this point, so I suggested that he seek further advice from them and got out of there while the getting out was good.
I managed to avoid pointing out that Edgware Road, where he wanted to be, is one of only two names on the entire Tube network that are shared between two separate and distinct Tube stations situated some distance from each other (one on the Bakerloo Line, the other straddling the Circle, District and Hammersmith and City lines), the other such duplicated name being Shepherd's Bush (with one on the Hammersmith and City Line and the other on the Central Line).
I assumed that imparting this information would only muddy the waters...
Upon alighting from the last train to Edgware, the northernmost extremity of one branch of the Northern Line, I was heading towards the stairs when I was approached by a chap who had alighted from the carriage before mine and had then been wandering about the platform near the stairs, apparently in some confusion (closely but surreptitiously observed by myself as I headed towards his wandering zone - you never know what people are going to do at this time of night).
He excused himself in a polite and reasonably sober tone, explaining that he had planned to travel to Edgware Road, but now found himself here in Edgware, and wondered if I knew whether there were any more trains to his intended destination
Glancing at the electronic destination signs, I explained that he could get back on the train we'd just alighted from to travel as far as Golders Green, but he'd then have to take a night bus. He seemed eager to please, stating with some enthusiasm that he could take a night bus (the way somebody might say that they'd passed the eleven plus, or had a swimming certificate), but wondered if there were night buses from Edgware?
I assured him that there were, but that I had no knowledge of their stops or schedules; luckily, a London Underground employee came wandering by at this point, so I suggested that he seek further advice from them and got out of there while the getting out was good.
I managed to avoid pointing out that Edgware Road, where he wanted to be, is one of only two names on the entire Tube network that are shared between two separate and distinct Tube stations situated some distance from each other (one on the Bakerloo Line, the other straddling the Circle, District and Hammersmith and City lines), the other such duplicated name being Shepherd's Bush (with one on the Hammersmith and City Line and the other on the Central Line).
I assumed that imparting this information would only muddy the waters...
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