Friday, August 22, 2003
Aah, Bicon. It's at the University of East London which necessitated a trip on the Docklands Light Railway. Crowded, smelly and badly ventilated as the rest of the underground is the DLR does look lovely. Admittedly I say that having travelled on it precisely three times by the point I'm writing this. But when you emerge into the light before Shadwell, then the track splits off into many different directions and it all looks like fairground tracks and you're thinking 'loop the loop'! UeL is at Cyprus, so right near the end of one of the tracks. And these stations are all new, almost the only ones on the accessibility map as any good for wheelchair users, so a lot more clean and tidy than the inner London stations. Travelling to Bicon you run a real range of the sights of Inner London, passing close to the Dome, posh flats and less attractive areas where there are boards over the doors.
