Jubilee line, end to end

After a morning at college, I spent the afternoon on the Jubilee Line, doing some TravelWriting. The Overground connects with it at Canada Water, one of the "new" stations, added between Charing Cross and Stratford in 1999.

Approaching Stanmore, I looked up and saw all these lovely lines of cabling -
The western, or is that northern, end of the line -

Stanmore station (opened 1932), not very busy in the middle of the afternoon -

Along the stairs, "Linear", a work by Dryden Goodwin as part of "Art on the Underground" - he drew portraits of 60 Jubilee Line staff. You can watch the films of the portraits being made here.

The highly visible and rather colourful cables on the open-air sections of the line are a nice counterpoint to the grim-encrusted cables along the underground sections -

Sixty minutes later, the other end of the line - Stratford, gateway to the 2012 Olympics -
Beyond the lines, Tube Lines offers "skills training" (but didn't deliver the 2010 upgrade of the Jubilee line in time) -
The result - Willesden Green to Canary Wharf, printed and ready to make into bags -