Do Not Alight Here: Walking London's Lost Underground and Railway Stations Paperback – 5 Dec. 2011

I am addicted to walking the streets of London and I'm always looking out for the next London walk book to follow.Following the walks in this book I've discovered not only the disused stations etc. but also whole areas of London that I hardly knew at all.The fact that there are no maps has forced me to use my A to Z which makes the walks feel much more like an adventure. The directions and pictures are useful and I've enjoyed trawling the net after each walk for more information on the places I've visited.I'm halfway through the walks and looking forward to the train journeys that feature later in the book.Excellent walk book, well done!

This is a very handy vade-mecum for a certain kind of railway fanatic. The book's A6 size is right to fit many a jacket or overcoat pocket, and the journeys on foot don't usually last beyond 2 hours. Ben Pedroche has defined the trips, whether on foot or by train, so there is not much sense in modifying them. In fact the trips are not uniformly concerned with stations, some taking us to underground bunkers largely used in WW2. To tell the truth, a number of the station buildings are not really very interesting, but I imagine that the answer to that problem is -- don't do those walks: any interest they possess can be extracted from the printed text.Otherwise it's absorbing, so long as you are the right kind of receptive reader and/or walker. The real thrill that I still get, at age 80 plus, is from two other kinds of railway discovery. One kind used to make me enjoy trips out of Fenchurch Street, where the surviving track seemed to be surrounded by blocked-off and dead-ended railway relics. I think I would still like to do a bit of that kind of exploring and find where those erstwhile routes came from and went to. The other kind consisted of following an abandoned route as it had originally been, not as some helpful guide indicates among today's remains. When I was a boy I was fascinated by maps of the Northern Line that extended beyond the terminus at Edgeware . What was supposed to happen at Brockley Hill etc? I now know that from other sources, but Mr Pedroche says nowt.I guess that's complaining that this is not a different kind of book. I don't wish to complain: of its kind, this book is excellent. And incidentally the origin of the book's title is to be found on p123, referring to Kings Cross Thameslink.

It's a fascinating book for those who like to know what went before; what a building they've noticed used to be, and who like to nose around finding "leftovers" which have somehow escaped demolition/modernisation. It's a book to make you open your eyes and look around - particularly but not only for Underground and railway enthusiasts. I don't live in London any more but I've been reading it with Google Street View in front of me which is very satisfactory for a lot of it!

For anybody who has the slightest interest in our London underground, whether you are familiar with London or not this book is riveting. Fascinating history and a step by step guide to every location. Relive this by taking a week off, good pair of walking footwear, pack of jammy dodgers and away.

I bought this book for a family member and we have both read it. I found it very enjoyable with lots of interesting facts, the pictures were helpful but I would have liked to have some maps as well. It is a nicely presented book and it is small enough to slip into a bag to read on a journey.

Got this book as a present for someone else but ended up keeping it for myself! Has lots of stuff about London I never knew, including places I've walked by every day for years and not noticed. I've done two of the walks and they were well informed with good directions. The best bit for me is the tube journeys section. I heard people talk about `ghost' stations before but I didn't really see what the fuss was about. But now I've seen some for myself I for one am hooked. Highly recommended, and I'm not even a Tube buff. Or maybe I am now?

This is interesting, but possibly over detailed. It gives me much information that is new to me but I can never now follow the walks and tube tours it recommends because I am disabled. But railway enthusiasts will admire it. I would have preferred more illustrations

Another present for my Dad, who never tires of pointing out the remnants of Bermondsey station platforms when on the train from Sidcup to town. He was extremely happy with this and intends to follow a lot of the walks, exploring where the train lines used to run and mourning the defunct station buildings. The descriptions seem quite precise and the book is a handy size to carry with him. Although a map lover, he wasn't bothered that this didn't contain any because the photos make stuff easy to locate.