Trainspotting Tiktoker inspired by Francis Bourgeois discovers hidden gems while visiting every tube stop
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA trainspotting Tiktoker has visited and ranked all 272 tube stops in London, after being inspired by train-loving social media sensation Francis Bourgeois.
Tom Rees, 29, from Shropshire, is building a "community" of transport fans after he grew up captivated by how the tube allows Londoners to "zip around the city".
After moving to the capital in 2017, Tom, a marketing operations manager, set out to visit every tube station armed with a GoPro to document the “good, the bad, and the ugly” and build a detailed mental map of London.
In 2023, he turned his footage into TikTok, Instagram and YouTube videos under the handle @vaguely.mundane, where he ranked stations and amassed 50,000 followers across all platforms, with his most popular video earning more than two million views on Instagram.
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