h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Actually, this should be renamed Fun for the staff at Camden Town.
If you have ever travelled south to Camden and then been forced to change because the indicator boards suggest that there isn't going to be a train that goes where you want to go (like the Bank branch) for another there weeks, read on.
What's really happening is that the staff like to watch the commuters dash from one platform to the enxt, as the boards report that the next Bank train wll be on platform 2. First of all, you don't know which platform that is because where you are, on the platform, there's no numbering, and you can't ssee theboard anyway unless you're almost next to it because there are 20 other signs blocking the view to it.
Then you go up to the spot where all corridors meet -- and wait. If they're working, the boards now say something entirely different and, when they do report that a Bank train might deign to arrive, it will be on the same platform you just left. So off you go, only to find it's a Charing Cross train. Return to Jail, do not pass Go....
The fun part comes for the staff as, on the security cameras, they watch people dash from one side of the station to another.

Yeah, that's pretty fun. But not as fun as trying to get into the station on a Sunday afternoon. Or for that matter, get out of it in the summertime, when a million tourists all wait immediately outside the station exit for their equally idiotic friends to arrive.

What about the famous Camden 'Wind Tunnel' effect on the escalators when there is a lot of train movement?

Is this the most powerful wind effect on London Underground?

(serious answers please!)

Camden Town is pretty windy, but I blame that on all of the veggy food served at the market.

Try coming up the escilators towards surface level at Holborn. It's much windier than Camden... be careful of bits of grit and dust flying into your eyes though!

I used to work in Holborn and commute via Camden. My vote still goes to Camden as the windiest, but this is only when you get the right combination of train movements - remember that there can be 4 arriving/departing at the same time, and all comparatively near the escalator for a tube station.

I used to work at Barts, by St. Paul's. The teeny weeny escalator from the Westbound level to the Eastbound level often has a ferocious wind, dragging up all kinds of detritus from the platform. Many a time I've come across a multiple commuter pile-up at the bottom of the escalator because some poor besuited fool had been temporarily blinded by the sports pages of the Sun being plastered to his face by the wind, causing him to miss the bottom of the escalator. My how we laughed!

Sorry to digress but judging by your name you sound like a Eurovision Fan....True or just coincidence?

Its all a tissue of lies.
I just saw the opportunity to call myself bingbangabang(bong), rather than just plain old Adam.

Well I suppose we won't mix you up with anyone else!!!!