Central Line
Date started: 18th April 2014
Date finished: 30th June 2014
Days walked: 5
Distance walked: 59.5 miles (95.2 km)
Line length: 45.7 miles (73.6 km)
Route efficiency: 77.3%
Stations: 49
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After two short lines, it's time for a bigger challenge - the biggest, in fact. So we're off to Epping, the only station not on the Metropolitan line that's outside the M25, and the station with the largest car park (599 spaces).
Having considered attempting to cross some fields for a direct route, we played safe and went down some country roads instead.
Out into zone 6 at the end of the line. That's the longest line walked, so it's back up the hill for a celebratory drink at the Orchard.
After two short lines, it's time for a bigger challenge - the biggest, in fact. So we're off to Epping, the only station not on the Metropolitan line that's outside the M25, and the station with the largest car park (599 spaces).
Day 1 - 18th April 2014. Epping to Leytonstone (14.8m / 23.6km). Drinks in the Red Lion and the North Star with Sarah and Yak.
Day 2 - 25th May 2014. Woodford to Wanstead (11.8m / 18.8km). Drinks in the George.
Day 3 - 31st May 2014. Wanstead to Chancery Lane (10.3m / 16.5km). Drinks in the Cittie of Yorke, Penderel's Oak & Bar Polski.
Day 4 - 15th June 2014. Chancery Lane to Ealing Broadway (11.1m / 17.7km). Drinks in the North Star.
Day 5 - 30th June 2014. North Acton to West Ruislip (11.6m / 18.6km). Drinks in the Orchard.
Leytonstone Mosaics
 Rebecca (1940)Joan Fontaine as Mrs de Winter and Judith Anderson as Mrs Danvers. Through the window is the nearby church of St John the Baptist. |
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 The Wrong Man (1956)Henry Fonda as Christopher Ballestrero. |
 Rear Window (1954)James Stewart as L.B.Jefferies and Grace Kelly as Lisa Freemont. Through the window is the local Green Man pub. |
 Hitchcock and DietrichAlfred Hitchcock and Marlene Dietrich (Stage Fright, 1950) relaxing off set. |
 To Catch a Thief (1955)Cary Grant as John Robie. |
 The Birds (1963)Tippi Hedren as Melanie Daniels. |
 Saboteur (1942)Robert Cummings as Barry Kane and Priscilla Lane as Patricia Martin. In the background is Leytonstone High Road, and The Elms pub (renamed Lincolns in 1986 and demolished in 2012). |
 Vertigo (1958)Tom Helmore as Gavin Elster and Kim Novak as Madeline. |
 Strangers on a Train (1958)Farley Granger as Guy Haines and Robert Walker as Bruno Antony. |
 Hitchcock at work |
 The Pleasure Garden (1926)Virginia Valli as Patsy Brand in Hitchcock's first feature as a solo director. |
 Young AlfredPictured outside his father's greengrocers shop in Leytonstone High Road c1906. |
 Number 17 (1932)Donald Calthrop as Brant and Garry Marsh as Sheldrake. |
 Psycho (1960)Hitchcock in the foreground directing Janet Leigh as Marion Crane and Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. |
 Suspicion (1941)Cary Grant as Johnny Aysgarth. |
 The Skin Game (1932) |
 North by Northwest (1959)Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill. |
 The Hitchcock GalleryThe plaque at the south entrance |
 1940s advertisementsBefore the mosaic installation, the station walkway was decorated with more of these old advertisements. |
1999 was the centenary of the birth of Alfred Hitchcock in Leytonstone, and to mark the occasion Waltham Forest borough council commissioned a series of 17 mosaics to be displayed in the local underground station.
Created by Steve and Nathan Lobb, Carol Kenna, Claire Notley and Julie Norburn at the Greenwich Mural Workshop, the display opened in 2001.
