Lovely Modern 1 Bed Flat in Dalston Junction

There's an official out-of-station interchange with Dalston Kingsland station on the Mildmay line, about a 250 metre walk away. This is a very clean, tidy London Overground station on the Windrush line, in zone two.

The live announcements are infrequent, hard to understand and often wrong, while the departure boards are inaccurate too. The prerecorded announcements are annoyingly frequent. I feel for the staff working here, knowing they and their colleagues are providing such poor service. They should also do something about the adult fare dodgers.

The station is clean and the staff are generally nice, but one attendant called me a liar over a fare issue. At Hoxton Station the barriers were open, so I tapped and crossed. When I reached DJ and tapped, it wouldn't let me through. I explained what happened, and the attendant still let me pass, but said I was lying. I wouldn't lie to TfL services: I don't lie, I respect all TfL staff, from a rude manager to a janitor, and I don't fare jump. It bothered me the whole day, so that's why I'm giving four stars.

I go through this station weekly with my children, and often see adults push through the barriers without being stopped, sometimes right behind us. Staff don't seem to react. This evening, though, a staff member aggressively stopped me and my son to ask his age. I told him to look properly: my son had a pass, and we were paying customers. He said he thought we'd go through together. At that point, even if we had, he's a child still in primary school, and his age isn't their business. Adults jump the barriers here all the time, but staff seem to target children, who are easier to intimidate. Fare dodging is a problem at many stations, but they should focus on the real culprits instead of primary school children.