London Underground Trivia.

Not important, just interesting.

Was there ever a situation where the front of a Tube train was in one
station, while the back was in another? (No, but you come close to that
between Leicester Square and Charing Cross.) Why is there such a
gigantic pipe across the platforms at Sloane Square? (It contains the
Westbourne River, and it shakes in heavy rain.) How do Tube drivers
obtain the cups of hot tea they often carry? (There are kettles waiting
at "tea points" around the network.) As you head west and face the
direction of travel from Shepherd’s Bush on the Central Line, the
eastbound platform is on your right, but at the next stop, White City,
the eastbound platform is on your left. Why? (The answer is far too
fraught to set out here.) Is there really a man who goes around the
system killing pigeons with a hawk? (Yes.)

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3 responses

  1. The author steers well away from the terrible events which come to pass if anyone actually breaks the ‘taboo’ and speaks to a fellow passenger!
    An immediate space is made around the perpetrator of this unfogiveable assault of the rights of Londoners to completely ignore everyone, excepting perhaps their very immediate family! Eyes are averted, cabalistic signs made with the right hand, elederly Irishwomen search for their stand-by bottle of ‘holy water’, and in general the other passengers make it very plain that they do not talk on the Tube, even to themselves!
    Calm slowly returns, and all commence reading the adverts set above their fellow passengers heads, as the ‘criminal’ slinks red-faced from the crime-scene, and peace returns to the Northern Line!

  2. What I’d be interested to know, is, how long a gap ought to be appropriate before Mornington Crescent can be played in public without drawing disapproval?

  3. Could someone tell me which line has most stations on the London Underground?

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