London Fields Station

This station is amazingly convenient for getting to the lower part of Mare Street and how great is it that you can use PAYG Oyster from Liverpool Street? Come on Boris, let us have the same thing in South London!
Each time I’ve been only one of the Oyster touch in /​touch out machines has been working (I had a mild panic attack when I thought none were working last week but all was fine in the end), but that’s a small grumble really.
Trains are really regular, the station’s clean and there don’t seem to be any weirdos hanging around all day so what more could I ask for?

I noticed that the other review says that the machine is rarely working however, as someone who goes everyday, i would like to correct them and say that actually they have recently (a few months ago) installed a new machine which in my experience has only been not working once.
London fields is a very small but nice station with no ticket office and only a ticket machine and oyster card readers. It does however have little information boxes where you can get throught to people working on the trains to find out more information about delays etc. They too are now working
The boards with train times used to be very tempramental but are also now in good condition
there is ample seating and shelter but too many pigeons.
Also if you go to the platform which goes towards enfield town and stand on the stairs (about halfway up) then you can sometimes hear the people who live next door talking loudly and amusingly, sometimes even in english. That is definitely one feature not to be missed!

It’s about as basic as London train stations get. They only just got round to putting in an Oyster reader but you can forget about buying a ticket from a machine. If it is working, you can bet it doesn’t have any change and cards are not an option.
On the plus side, it’s easy to get your journey for free so long as you’re not planning on getting off at Liverpool Street or Seven Sisiters. There’s never anyone except the drivers on the trains.
The station itself has just the one line and two platforms up quite large flights of stairs. Never seen any issues or shady characters aside a few hoodies, more scared of you than you are of them.
The only mystery is the world of pigeon shit. I’ve never seen any wildlife within a sniff of the station.
There’s always a place to sit on the paint-​chipped benches and, if it rains, you can find shelter at the top of the stairs with a corrugated iron roof tip-​tapping as the drops fall down.
Trains only run every 10 mins or so but are often delayed, so make sure you check the tfl website before you wander down there, but if you don’t, at least the info boards work properly.