Into the underground

Continuing the unintended monochrome theme this week, here is the Queen Street entrance to Buchanan Street Underground station. I am always entertained by the Glasgow Underground, which after 5 years of living in Russia seems rather like a toy train, so wee and infrequent, and at all stations you can walk down a few steps into them. Apparently they finally got round to opening Admiralteiskaya in St Petersburg, the second deepest underground station in the world - 105 metres under the city (one of the Kiev stations beats it by 50cm or so). Glasgow, you don't know what it is to tunnel, and your stations are hilarious! Ah, the days of trains I could stand upright in, even by the doors, and that came every 2 minutes. I wasn't actually on the underground today, just looking for an easy blip when moving from Queens Street high level to low level. That is another oddity of the Glasgow transport network - an underground rail system that isn't the underground! But if you want to have a look at the stunning system that runs in St Petersburg, have a look here. The site is in Russian, but you can have a look at the pictures on the home page (click on the wee pics and they appear in the circular display, use the arrows to look through them, pretty obvious actually), well worth a look, then compare to the photos on here.

A lovely evening at the Transforming Work group, good discussion was had. Looking forward to a skype sociable weekend!