AN urban explorer has admitted being strangely fascinated by dull places such as store rooms, telephone exchanges and water pumping stations.

Imagine when it looked quite similar

The 33-year-old graphic designer Tom Logan spends most of his spare time being unaccountably thrilled by locations he would not consider visiting if they were in use.

Logan said: Last night I sneaked into a disused toilet warehouse. Its completely empty now, but the thought of all those toilets just sitting there waiting to be put in lorries gave me an incredible rush.

A week ago I explored a tube station thats been closed since 1951. It was unlike anything Id ever seen, except the functioning tube station I go to every day to get to work.

You could almost feel the ghosts of people walking past you, wondering if they were going to be late for work or wishing theyd been to the toilet before they left the house.

Logan said his most memorable urban expedition had involved breaking into a World War 2 bunker after three weeks of careful planning, although he later discovered it was free to visit during the day.

He said: During the war it would have been full of telephone operators transferring calls and gossiping about each other. Its almost impossible to imagine that sort of thing nowadays.

However Logan admitted urban exploration had its risks, such as the time he broke both his legs and spent 19 weeks in a coma after falling through the floor of a derelict mop factory.