Underground

What an interesting day.
I have been in London on one of the Hidden London tours run by the Transport Museum which takes groups down into places now disused or not used by regular tube trains.  
Charing Cross is still station but this particular section was originally part of the Jubilee line.  The rail is still 'live' so no walking on the track but is only occasionally used for parking some carriages and more frequently for filming.  A chase section of the Bond film, 'Skyfall', was filmed here as was part of the Paddington Bear film; I must watch this.  We were shown extracts and it's hilarious when Paddington first travels on the tube and doesn't know what to do faced with the escalator - he sees the sign which reads 'Dogs must be carried' and in the next shot he re-appears carrying a dog!
We went through a construction tunnel created when the new Jubilee line was built (an extra) - this meant the line was re-routed hence the now redundant station. We also walked along a ventilation shaft looking down through a grill on a current northern line station (extra).  Well worth doing.

Following this, we went along to the National Portrait Gallery for another look at the Vogue exhibition.  Earlier we had looked at a photographic display in the crypt of St Martin in the Field - a modern version of the Stations of the Cross with images of the refugees in France trying to get across the English Channel; this was very emotive and some wonderful photography.

So a very full day and I am tired!!

My poem for today's contribution to the April Poetry Challenge.....

Waiting
I can wait.
I’ve been waiting for years.

It’s dark down here, dusty and draughty too,
Dank and disorderly
With the occasional visitor.

Then you appear with your flashes and clicks, oohs and aahs,
But you’ll go -
Back to the light of day.


I can wait
I’ll be here when you need me -



Waiting!