The view from Tez's flat in lovely Ilford. A train station sort of makes a big half circle around the 'burb. UK trains are actually very quiet. They're electric and average 90mph so all you hear is an occasional WOOSH!
Here's suburban London in all its dirty, oppressive glory. I walked to this station every morning and used the trains to get to Stratford or Liverpool Street Stations. From there you can catch the Central Line of the Underground straight in. There's a lot of WOOSHING and then you're there.
The first time you ride the Tube, you're slightly terrified because it's crowded and confusing as hell. The second time, you're thrilled to be traveling car-free and footloose. The third time, you get a face full of carbon dust, you get "carried" by two-hundred people up an escalator and you have to leap over a small lake of urine. Then, you hate it.
But sometimes there's cute guys! And they're on the escalator in front of you and so you get to stare at their butts all the way up.
I forget which one but this is one of the brand new subway stations. Tez and I thought it was pretty cool. Note the absence of pools of urine. It's located under a big government complex, not Parliment but real close.