Goodbye?

I have a little bit more work to do on a post about Moorgate and the Widened Lines so please bare with me. Unfortunately, once again, my posts are going to appear a little out of order. Anyway: today - Wednesday (although as it's already past midnight I guess even this post will go up on the wrong day!)

I'm still not all that well. When my alarm went off at 08:00 this morning, I left it to automatically switch to snooze. At 08:09 when it went off again, I turned it off and prepared to get out of bed. At about 08:40 I rolled over, checked the time and was startled to discover that I must have fallen asleep. So I went back to bed for another 20 minutes, knowing that I wouldn't make it to class. In the end, I got to university in time to meet my friend at 11:00, although we are now going to be meeting at 14:00, after my tutorial which I will, at least, make :P

To achieve even this, though, I had to really shift myself, but I made it to ROV as the WOO was pulling in. I still had to cross the bridge and had to make sure I didn't dawdle, because I still wasn't sure if I'd make it. In the end it didn't really matter because we had quite a wait for a train to cross over Woodford junction ahead of us. At WOO, I noticed there was a train in the sidings, for whatever reason. There I changed for a WER service and was duly taken off to LIS. We even had Sonia. At LIS I changed onto a Circle line train and the only thing there really was to take note of on the way to Euston Sq was that work is continuing at Moorgate (see forthcoming post - sorry).

I left university moderately late - around 20:00. My friend was further delayed and we didn't end up meeting until around 15:15 and then we sort of carried on talking for quite a while. Anyway, as such, I took a comparatively quiet tube home.  Not that quiet, of course - even at 20:00 there were plenty of full carriages on the S stock I boarded at Euston Sq (although I managed to get on one with free seats :P) - but comparatively quiet. So yes, the S stock was a Circle line train which arrived after 3 minutes or so - which wasn't bad. Smooth, dark, uneventful journey into LIS really, where I changed for a Central line train to EPP.

Again, it was all pretty quiet on the eastbound Central line. Only at LEY did I notice that the train behind mine was a WOO via HAI, so I changed at LES and took that to ROV. Our T/Op did make me smile at HAI, though. She had already informed us that we would have a slight delay for a driver change - although, in reality, the WOO usually holds at HAI for a few minutes - driver change or not. Just before she handed over the reigns, however, she once again let us know that someone else would take over, saying her "lovely colleague" would take us on to WOO, which I just thought was quite sweet :P

And with that, as far as I can see, I have now had my last ever university class. Other classes will be running for a while, although I don't have much intention of attending any since essentially all compulsory and substantial classes are wrapped up for me now. I will, of course, still have exams, but - essentially - my days of commuting daily, at least to university, are up. I haven't a clue what's going to happen next and how many more travels I will have as a tube user. I will probably try, at least for a little while, to keep this blog going, I've enjoyed it. I started out pretty tentatively and didn't expect to end up writing quite as much as I have done; although largely the experience has pretty much been what I'd intended it would be. I don't know how much life will drain my time, but I will hopefully continue writing about any tube journeys I have (at least the interesting ones) and tube-related stuff. At least from time to time. I'm probably gonna make a journey into the university to meet some friends tomorrow, anyway. We'll see. But, who knows, maybe this is not simply the end of my university career, but this blog too. But then again, who knows, maybe I'll end up living somewhere else in London and will have a new station as my local one and perhaps a new line and/or new route to really get to know.

As I say, I still have yesterday's post to finish, a post may be forthcoming tomorrow and possibly more after that. Still, if this really is one of my last and I shall soon be moving on then all I can say is thanks for reading. This is only a pokey little blog and it's obviously quite specialist. But I get a little bit of traffic, for which I'm very grateful, and I hope that if I have regulars, you've enjoyed it and certainly I hope that some of my larger posts might have interested someone who just happened to stumble upon them. Take care out there, mind the gap (and I don't mean that to sound cheesy, them trains are big and them rails are electrified (well, two of them)) and enjoy your tube travels.