For Londoners. Had to go to a friends and had to interchange at Bank. That damn station makes NO EFFING SENCE. Its got 3 quaters of a million platforms, none of which are set up in any logical order, you know it would be nice to know yes this is the Northern Line platform, this is DLR, but NO that would be too simple, go through Northern Line platforms, take 350 windly turns and then find DLR. And don’t even get me started on the exits!
Platform 9 and 3/4 is always tricky to find.
I agree. And in the time it takes to walk from the Central Line to the District Line you could have just walked to your destination.
Last time I was there (about a month ago) there was major renovation work going on at that station. That probably makes it even more of a disaster area.
I find it OK, but then I used it twice a day for 5 years when I worked in the City.
That’s because you’re at the wrong station: take the northbound Northern Line to Kings Cross, where Platform 9 3/4 is to be found.
Sorry, but if we’re playing Lord Cardington’s Rules, you can’t take a Northbound Line immediately after an entente.
I just want to find the station that sells all the Paddington Bear dolls. My wife never gets tired of that place. We have, like, 80 pictures of Paddington Bear doll kiosks in our scrapbook. Not to mention the half dozen or so Paddington Bear dolls that our kids have in their beds. I just roll my eyes, say “yes dear”, and let her do her shopping while I research my travel guide book and try to remember if a vindaloo is something I visit before or after eating.
We’re planning another trip to London. Can anyone tell me where that station was?
Could it be … Paddington Station? Or is that too obvious?
When I was new to London I nearly missed a job interview because of Bank. Didn’t get the job anyway, but I learned the valuable lesson that what looks like the shortest way on the tube map is not always in fact the shortest way.
Kings Cross/St Pancras is much bigger but I never have had any problems there. Bank is not the size as much as the bloody effing illogical nature of it. And “construction” has been going on forever.
There is a Paddington Bear souvenir shop on the concourse at Paddington mainline station, yes.
I wondered how many posts it would take… 
I like Bank. I like the way it encapsulates the anarchic way the underground developed - we like to think of it as one unified system, but I (a child of the 80s) can recall seeing Southern Railway logos on Waterloo & City line trains. No kidding.
Bank makes no damn sense. Really they shoudl make it into two or three stations.
Gotta love how announcements were made for ages that ‘there is *no *interchange at Bank’, and everyone just ignored that for the lie it was, continued to change at Bank and they modified the announcement to ‘OK, well just try to avoid Bank then!!’
London just doesn’t listen 
South Ken station still has one of those - Metropolitan and Southern I think, in the wrought iron at the station entrance.
Bank’s not all that hard… if you know where you’re going. it’s a whole different thing if it’s not your twice-a-day station, or if god forbid something goes wrong on the Tube network. Then it’s a nightmare.
Yeah. And they could call the other one something like…oh, I dunno… “Monument”.
Not my daily station but I live in Central London and go to Canary Wharf most weekends, I have to interchange at Bank, since the damn Jubilee Line is shut most weekends (and is longer anyway). From C London to the East its pretty much the place you change at. Once again the problem is not the size but the disorgnaised nature of the place, Kings Cross is bigger never has problems because its organised. BTW city types tell me they get lost in Bank often enough.
Finally, Monument IS Bank, on the circle line. And don’t get me started on THAT particular line. Its not a different station.
I commute in to Canary Wharf on the DLR from the south and can’t tell you how glad I am that I don’t have to go all the way in to Bank. Or indeed take the Jubilee line in the morning.
One of us is being whooshed here but I’m not sure if it’s you or me.
Personal question where do you go to on the Wharf? Me its a flat on Westferry Road. And hows the Lehmann Bros building, last I checked they took the sign off. As for being woohshed, I probably have made another faux pas.