‘I ranked all 272 of London’s tube stops – these are the best and worst’
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Tom ranks station under the handle @vaguely.mundane. A tube station enthusiast has taken social media by storm by ranking all 272 of London’s tube stops. Tom Rees, a 29-year-old marketing operations manager from rural Shropshire now living in Islington, north London, grew up captivated by how the tube allows Londoners to “zip around the city”.
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After moving to the capital in 2017, he set out to visit every tube station two years later, armed with a GoPro to document the “good, the bad, and the ugly” and build a detailed mental map of London. His favourite tube stops include Uxbridge, Chesham, and Canary Wharf – while less favoured spots like Stonebridge Park and Barking make the bottom tier.
![[Tom moved to London in 2017 (Collect/PA Real Life)]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/07/06/06174554-40355ee2-e19c-45dc-8d0a-4be2ac41d88c.png)
Now exploring London’s mainline stations, he is uncovering hidden gems such as a lighthouse in Tower Hamlets playing a 1,000-year-long song and a Roman bath under an office block in Billingsgate. Tom said: “It was probably around when Francis Bourgeois was blowing up, so I knew there was an audience for it, and I’d not seen anybody doing a review of these stations with a more subjective take.
![[Tom has always been fascinated by the tube (Collect/PA Real Life)]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/07/06/06174550-05c98393-3d69-4974-a60a-c44b37595376.png)
“I couldn’t believe it when my videos started getting views, but there’s a real community of people who follow my videos now.”. Despite “not being interested in trains themselves”, Tom finds the way the tube enables so many people to “zip around the city” fascinating, especially given his more rural upbringing in Shropshire, where there was “very little public transport”.
![[Tom has said his videos have helped build a community (Collect/PA Real Life)]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/07/06/06174545-45644f9d-b562-4c8f-92f1-0c9fa5182b1c.png)
