Hounslow West

Hounslow West is a tube station that grew a neighbourhood around itself, and it still answers to the name on the platform sign. For years it was the end of the Piccadilly line, which is a kind of status, until the line pushed on to Heathrow and demoted it to the stop where everyone pats their pockets for their passports. Most of the carriage stays sitting down and wonders who gets off here. The ones who do get off have worked out that the same train reaches central London from a front door costing a good deal less than the ones further in.