What to do in London (England) on a weekend?

[Duo]

well if its in london presumably its at white hart lane. i got tickets for a QPR match against... well i cant remember who, now, but it was a welsh side. anyways, i got the tickets the day directly before the match. i dont think they sell out too quickly, typically, but newcastles probably a bigger game than the one i saw, so maybe you ought to book in advance, etc.

i lived in london for a year and never really did that much, though. lol. but they show kickass 3d movies in the natural history museum beside imperial college.

 

[Silurian]

QPR are at

Loftus Road Stadium
South Africa Road, London W12 7PA

next White City Tube and near new Westfield shopping centre

There are a few good pubs along the north side of the river west of Hammersmith Bridge.
I like the Dove

Tickets for that match go on sale in April. You can buy on line if you do not want to risk that they will all be sold

White Hart Lane is in North London

 

[Quackers]

visit the civ fanatic london massif? u could go around dusty museum to find plotinus the local pub for ginandtonic and then go to pub with grimzz?

 

[Duo]

QPR are at

Loftus Road Stadium
South Africa Road, London W12 7PA

next White City Tube and near new Westfield shopping centre

There are a few good pubs along the north side of the river west of Hammersmith Bridge.
I like the Dove

Tickets for that match go on sale in April. You can buy on line if you do not want to risk that they will all be sold

White Hart Lane is in North London

haha, youre totally right, oops. :3 well, i dont know football grounds very well! when i went there i went via shepherds bush, anyways. there was a pretty cool irish pub that only let people with qpr tickets in near the grounds, too.

 

[Silurian]

Quackers@
The science museum has some old vacuum cleaners if you are interested in dust.

 

[BCLG100]

Transport Museum you can buy a nice new wallet for an oyster card.

 

[Silurian]

The old buses are good in the Transport Museum in Covent Garden.
They have some that were used to transport troops in WW1

 

[Silurian]

IglooDude@
Attached tube closures this weekend.

If you are going to National Maritime Museum you can change from Jubilee Line to DLR at Canary Wharf but you will have to leave the underground station and walk to the DLR station

 

[BCLG100]

Good job it wasn't last weekend. Literally every other bloody stop was closed. Trekked from Holborn to Temple and back for a bleeding interview!

 

[Brighteye]

I'm going to West Hampstead this Saturday. Guess what's out of action? The Jubilee and overground.
Hampstead to Dalston will be annoying, and then to Victoria should be fun.

 

[BCLG100]

People are lucky when the Jubilee is working during the week nevermind the weekend. That and the district rank alongside each other in terms of fun!

Luckily for me the Picadilly seems to be constantly working!

 

[Plotinus]

The Jubilee Line pretty much never has full operation at weekends; it has not done so for a long time, and will not do so for a long time yet. Sometimes parts of the line are functioning, sometimes none of it is. You just have to check ahead.

When it is operational, the Jubilee Line is probably the most reliable line; I would say the District and Circle Lines are the least, and I would recommend avoiding those lines where alternative routes exist.

By the way, if you're passing through King's Cross, don't forget to go and have a look at Platform 9 3/4. It's quite cute, but not how you'd imagine it (J.K. Rowling mistakenly wrote "King's Cross" when she was actually thinking of St Pancras, the much more impressive railway station next door).

 

[BCLG100]

I thought it was Euston as there is actually a barrier in between 9 and 10?

 

[Plotinus]

Perhaps you're right, but I must say that while I can understand confusing King's Cross with St Pancras, I don't see how someone could confuse it with Euston. I remember they actually showed St Pancras in the films, at least for the exterior shots. The "King's Cross" chapter near the end of the last book describes what seems to me to be the new bit of St Pancras at the back rather than either of the other two (although that didn't exist when that book is supposedly set, in the late 90s).

 

[BCLG100]

Perhaps you're right, but I must say that while I can understand confusing King's Cross with St Pancras, I don't see how someone could confuse it with Euston. I remember they actually showed St Pancras in the films, at least for the exterior shots. The "King's Cross" chapter near the end of the last book describes what seems to me to be the new bit of St Pancras at the back rather than either of the other two (although that didn't exist when that book is supposedly set, in the late 90s).

Neither do I as they're markedly different!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_King's_Cross_railway_station#Relationship_with_Harry_Potter

It mentions it there but i guess she may have also been describing St Pancras by the time the last book came around as she had realised her mistake.

 

[Furiey]

Your comments on the Jubilee Line remind me of a piece published in the Big Issue 14-20 November 1994 when work on the Jubilee Line extension had not long started:

Following a series of spectacular blunders during extension work on London's Jubilee Line, experts have concluded that most diasaters to have affected the Earth over the past 100 odd years have, in fact, been caused by London Transport engineering works. "London Underground are the single most destructive natural force in the history of the world" said one scientist. "Since the building of the first Tube tunnel in 1863 their obsessive burrowing has been responsible not only for Big Ben subsiding, but for the San Francisco Earthquake, the sinking of The Titanic and a plague of locusts in Angola. Filthy trains and rude staff are just the tip of the iceberg." London Underground have reluctantly admitted that recent flooding in Egypt was due to Jubilee Line engineers taking a wrong turning at Bermondsey and hitting a water main underneath Cairo; but have dismissed as "ludicrous" suggestions that signal work on the Northern Line was responsible for the outbreak of the First World War. "That was 80 years ago." said a company spokesman. "And as any Northern Line user knows; we haven't touched the signals since 1884."

 

[GinandTonic]

For a couple of years around when the HP books were being written there were works around the little suburban-rail station off the side of KX (platforms 10-11) as they opened up what is now the ticket office there. At the same time there were works on the listed footbridge across the tracks just next to the passage that leads from the main station to the suburban station. So for years there was just a kind of unmarked door-sized opening hidden away between builders boarding half way down the platform.

The first time I needed to catch a train from the little station I was very confused that the platform I needed didnt seem to exist. So I asked a guard and was told "Platform 11? Yeah go down the side of the platform, past the pub, and when you get to the footbridge have a look around on your left, there's an opening. Go down that and you'll find the other station". So I did, and found the secret station.

I always assumed that was what inspired JK :shrug:

@furiey

 

[Plotinus]

That's quite fun. There are lots of odd little doorways and things like that on the London transport network which are good to fantasise about. My girlfriend and I were in one of the Tube stations recently on the Jubilee Line - I think it was Bond Street - and opposite the platform, down by the tracks, there was a little door apparently leading into the wall of the tunnel. My girlfriend speculated about the magical kingdom that might lie beyond and hit me when I said it was probably some kind of cupboard containing electrical switches. I suppose this is the kind of thing that inspired Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

 

[RedRalph]

visit the civ fanatic london massif? u could go around dusty museum to find plotinus the local pub for ginandtonic and then go to pub with grimzz?

I have a newfound love for you since yesterday Q-Dog, I think you, me and Tekee should go for a pint some time

 

[Brighteye]

I always thought that the part she meant was the 9/10 area. I know it well, having travelled a fair amount between Cambridge and London, which always uses platforms 9 or 10. I don't know why a rail line to Scotland would be there too, but it's all magic anyway.