Anyway, the other day I did\u00a0sit down to do some work\u00a0in a rather pretty spot at St. Pancras station’s AMT Coffee (a chain\u00a0that\u00a0I do still retain a certain affection for):<\/p>\n
Not a bad view, huh? The thing is, despite the fact that it’s a major railway station, it was surprisingly quiet. Not in terms of the number of people of course (see my earlier post<\/a>) but the noise level. The only exception was when a Eurostar arrived, which they seem to have made as noisy and ostentatious as possible as if the train was announcing “HEY I CAME FROM FRANCE ARE YOU IMPRESSED?!”. But the rest of the time, surprisingly quiet.<\/p>\n I wandered into Cannon Street station during rush hour once and it was an almost creepy experience: huge throngs of\u00a0people were standing around gazing\u00a0at the screens for their platform, all in complete silence. Yes it’s a well-worn clich\u00e9 that commuters never talk to each other on the tube, but to a large extent it’s true, and it seems to extend to the stations.<\/p>\n Admittedly the stations with more tourists and leisure travellers, rather than just City commuters, tend to be a bit more lively. Still,\u00a0I find it interesting that the code of silence seems so much stronger in London’s stations than in its libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the best things about working remotely is that I can get work done anywhere there’s a seat and wi-fi. In fact even the latter isn’t vital thanks to mobile tethering. It’s a great excuse to explore London a bit, and usually I’ll find a nice coffee shop, or a library. Now forgive me … Continue reading The Sound of Stations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"St](\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-31-15.57.11-1024x768.jpg\")
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