Time once again for diamond geezer to go totally tubular with a week devoted to the London Underground. Prepare for five days of quizzes, quirks, commentary and obscure statistics. It's been a while.
Last time I tried this, in 2012, we discovered that Chesham has the least frequent service, that interchanging at Hammersmith takes 1½ minutes, that a Sainsbury's car park in Nine Elms was destined to become a tube station, that nine station names contain four vowels, that the Piccadilly line has 20 more 'listed' stations than any other line, that Ravenscourt Park used to be called Shaftesbury Road, that the Circle line runs through Bow Road really early in the morning, that nowhere is more than 19 stations away from Westminster, that some Next Train Indicators hide next trains when they're two minutes away, that Mornington Crescent is busier on Sundays than Saturdays and that the Kilburn viaduct has an excellent view. We even wondered whether Tramlink, Thameslink and riverboat services should be added to the tube map, because that's how forward-looking we were.
Tube Week normally consists of three posts a day but this year I'm going to try to do four. Normally we have a daily puzzle, a daily stats-bash and a daily drilldown - that's Tube quiz, Tube geek and Tubewatch respectively. This year I'm bunging in an extra category called Tubeticking, of which more details tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous because I worry I've blogged all the good stuff already (identifying station names from just their vowels - done it) (counting the stairs at deep stations - done it) (visiting the least used tube station - done it). But the London Underground is the gift that keeps on giving, even after twenty years of blogging, so I hope we're in for a smooth journey. Mind the doors.
Time once again for diamond geezer to go totally tubular with a week devoted to the London Underground. Prepare for five days of quizzes, quirks, commentary and obscure statistics. It's been a while.
