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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