Stars pick their favourite views

"Greenwich to Charing Cross, affording the professional nosy-parker superb views of backs of houses and gardens in Deptford and New Cross."

Sir Christopher Ondaatje, philanthropist:

"The 7.50am from Gravesend to Charing Cross... through the suburbs and the cheek-byjowl townscape of one-time Dickensian London... then glimpsing the dome of St Paul's amid more recent icons like the Swiss Re tower."

Martin Drury, former National Trust chief:

"From Kent into Waterloo behind the backs of buildings... you feel you are stealing into London by the back door." Michael Palin, actor: "The old Great Central line into Marylebone."

Nicholas Pigott, editor of The Railway Magazine:

"Probably Victoria, Charing Cross and Cannon Street, all of which are entered via bridges over the Thames."

Emma Hope, shoe designer:

"Over the bridge by Battersea power station and seeing the fairy lights on the bridges."

Julian Fellowes, writer:

"None, they're all perfectly ghastly."

Ptolemy Dean, architect:

"London Bridge to Cannon Street - on a misty day one can almost imagine the London painted by Canaletto."

Michael Winner, director:

"The one that passes the poster of me at Clapham Junction."

Roger Scruton, philosopher:

"Into King's Cross, via the magnificent railway architecture."

Tim Knox, director, Sir John Soane museum:

"Best EXIT is the neo-Norman tunnel north of Euston, ruinous with curtains of ivy."