DAYS TO GO FIND OUT MORE Home • Train Sim World 2 • 2 Part 2: Beneath Tim Stone Contributor 11th September 2020 / 1:00PM Last week Flare Path’s tour of London Underground’s brown squiggle reached Queen’s Park, the Bakerloo’s equivalent of the Doors of Durin. Today our middle-aged TSW2 tube train plunges into a tenebrous netherworld full of mysterious parietal art, dangerous chasms, and (fingers crossed) tiny brawling rodents. Our first break from the inky blackness comes at Kilburn Park, the most northerly of the Bakerloo’s subterranean stops. If Dovetail had modelled the station in its entirety I’d suggest we all alight here and go topside to admire the handsome tiled facade. Unlike earlier tube station buildings (Kilburn Park opened in 1915 – part of the Bakerloo extension from Paddington to Queen’s Park) this one was built without a second storey because the go-ahead Underground Electric Railways Company of London had decided to abandon elevators in favour of a more modern technology – the escalator. Today there are 451 impatient staircases on the Underground, the longest of which, the 61 metre-high flight at Angel, is positively dinky compared to some of the vertigo inducers on Russian metro systems. Standing…