Another nice day, so it’s back on the trains for an explore…

First a fast to London Bridge. I was going to take the tube to Fenchurch Street, but it was such a nice day, I decided to walk:

It was a bit noisy walking over Tower Bridge though. I had intended to follow the path between the Tower and the Thames, but it was closed, so I found a new path along the back of the Tower:

This lead to Trinity Square gardens and Trinity House itself:

After all that grandeur, the Fenchurch Street entrance seems a bit grim:

I had a bit of a wait for my train, so took some photos:

It was a nice run out to Upminster, whizzing past the tube trains sharing the route. Upminster Station is a bit unexciting, unfortunately with quite a long wait for my next train:

Eventually my train appeared:

This is the newly named “Liberty Line” overground service, a shuttle between Upminster and Romford and turned out to be fairly busy.

We arrive at Romford a long way from the main platforms:

From there I got an Elizabeth Line service to Stratford, and walked around what seemed to be most of the station to find Platform 11, somewhere out in the “sticks”.

However, a Class 720 was waiting to take me on an untravelled line to Tottenham Hale past the Temple Mills depot full of Class 720 and Eurostar trains.

Tottenham Hale station is a very busy interchange between the Victoria Line and trains to Stansted:

But for me, it was time for lunch, so I escaped back to the real world:

Nearby is the River Lee Navigation, complete with a sunshine, a nice bench and a lock:

From there it was back to the station and a train to Liverpool Street station.

From there I walked to Moorgate and got a train to Finsbury Park. It’s mostly in tunnel, but this line now has new stock and is running under ETCS – which is slowly being rolled out on the East Coast main line.

I thought I’d have a long wait at Finsbury Park, but a Thameslink train was running late and after a bit of nifty footwork, managed to catch it back to London Bridge, with a fast back to Orpington 10 minutes later. So no photos of this bit!