Our BBC Sherlock

Travelling into London again for a day running around hunting locations. I think I am going to try and make some sense out of Soho and the Taxi chase from A Study in Pink.

Checking Transport for London via Mrs Hudson ('not our laptop, dear') and the internet dongle I am amused to see that the Metrooplitan Line and Jubilee line again are partly off for planned engineering works over this weekend. I had ten years of this madness when I lived actually in London and I am positively sure that's the reason Sherlock and John always take taxis. Despite them costing an arm and a leg, is the unreliabilty of London Underground, and the necessity for it to be actually running when you need it, means hailing a cab is much more sensible.

p.s. In The Reichenbach Fall John talks about Baker Street being handy for the Jubilee Line. I can only think that the writer mentioned that line, rather than the other four lines (Hammersmith and City/Circle/Bakerloo/Metropolitan) which run through there because it really was the Queens Diamond Jubilee the year Series Two was transmitted here in the UK. The Jubilee line is grey on the Tube map as it was created out of bits of the Bakerloo Line and an extension into central London in the late 1970s and opened in 1979, around the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. It's extension (out to the Dome and North Greenwich) was opened just before the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

Only the Metropolitan (nearby Euston Square) is actually handy for Gower Street North and Speedys.