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Old March 3rd 08, 10:06 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Mar 3, 7:30*pm, MaxB wrote:
On 3 Mar, 16:40, MarkVarley - MVP
wrote:

I'm looking for a very quiet station, one with very little people
traffic either late at night or weekends, somewhere on the tube
network or a rail station not too far out, this is for an informal
photoshoot for which it's best to not have numerous people around. so
any suggestions? somewhere on a little-used oddity of a branchline or
even a disused station that can still be accessed, I need tracks and
platform not too overgrown.


PS, I'm aware of the permissions system for photoshoots in such places
so no worries from that angle.


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Mark.http://www.MarkVarleyPhoto.co.ukwww....ww.TwistedArts....


Looking at the station useage figures (05-06), for inner London
stations, you could try any of the following - least used first -
depending on where you are and how brave you feel:

SILVERTOWN&LONDON CI
WOODGRANGE PARK
WANSTEAD PARK
HARRINGAY GREEN LANE
SOUTH TOTTENHAM
CAMBRIDGE HEATH
CROUCH HILL
SOUTH HAMPSTEAD
UPPER HOLLOWAY
LONDON FIELDS
CANNING TOWN
KILBURN HIGH ROAD
CUSTOM HOUSE LONDON
NORTHUMBERLAND PARK
WANDSWORTH ROAD LOND
HACKNEY WICK
STAMFORD HILL
CLAPHAM HIGH STREET
ESSEX ROAD
DRAYTON PARK

MaxB


I don't trust station usage figures for a moment, because they are
used to claim that stations at which one can't buy tickets and no one
is there to count the users of can be closed due to lack of demand.

My answer to the original question would have been "all railway
stations in London are popular and vibrant and should not be closed".

However, assuming that it counts as inner (should if some of those do)
I am pleased to see that the much-maligned St Johns isn't in the list.