The Anonymous Widower

Returning From Liverpool Street Station

I can walk from Liverpool Street Station at a push, but as the weather was bad with heavy rain and I had no coat or umbrella, I decided it would be better to brave public transport despite the strike, as usually you don’t get wet on the Tube or in a bus.

The best dry route home for me is to go to Barbican station on the Circle line and then get a 56 bus up to my house, but that station was closed because of the strike. So I thought, I’d take the other easy route, which is to go the other way and change to the strike-free Overground at Whitechapel.

As a train was at the station, I got it and it dropped me at Aldgate, as that was as far as it was going.  But never mind, I could get a 67 bus from there to the other end of my road. But for some reason, there were no bus maps at the station and I didn’t fancy the heavy rain, whilst looking for one.

So I got back on the Circle line and went back to Liverpool Street.

At Liverpool Street, I did the sensible thing I should have done in the first place and that was take a train to Hackney Downs and get a 56 bus back the other way to my house.

Luckily the rain was kept off by the railway bridge and after waiting for two minutes I got a bus home.

I must get myself a new coat today!

February 6, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Buses, Hackney Downs Station, Liverpool Street Station, Strikes, Weather