More new stations

That's completely infuriating. Within 24 hours of posting about the redevelopment of Farringdon station (see below) I discovered two brilliant aerial views that, had I known about at the time, would have featured prominently.

In that shot the two original trainshed roofs can be seen, side-by-side, with the new overall roof above them (the 1920s main station entrance is towards the bottom of the picture and, just below it, you can see some of the roof lights of the new Thameslink concourse. The new Turnmill Street side entrance is the long grey strip to the right). The right-hand trainshed is over the original station, the terminus of the world's first underground railway which opened in 1863.

Here's a wider-angle view of the whole area:

In this shot you can see the vast scale of the new Thameslink concourse, immediately below the original station entrance. The huge hole in the ground to the left of it is for the Crossrail concourse; when that line opens (in 2018) Farringdon will be the interchange for the two major cross-London rail arteries, making it one of the most significant railway junctions in the country.

Incidentally, in that last shot you can just see a building in which I lived for five years. Can you guess which one?! At the very bottom of the photo you can just see the roofs of Smithfield meat market. How appropriate.

Equally irritating, here's an aerial view of West Hampstead Thameslink:

The smart new concourse is centre-bottom (note the lovely green wall stretching up to the main road), and you can see the rather nifty new passenger footbridge and lifts that extrude from it.