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A thread for mumsnet nerds to talk about the history of the London Underground (aka what's your favourite tube station)

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GetOrfMoiIand · 26/07/2012 11:43

I spent a happy hour looking at this site www.abandonedstations.org.uk/

The history of the tube is fascinating, and I love travelling on it, it is so atmospheric (apart from when I am commuting within London and then I hate it with a vengeance like any normal person reserving special ire for the wanking Circle line).

Some stations feel really evocative - for instance Lambeth North looks as if it hasn't changed since the second world war.

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OliviaLMumsnet · 26/07/2012 17:34

Ooh I love this stuff.
(marking place as will move out of chat and read properly later)

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OliviaLMumsnet · 26/07/2012 19:28

Another piccadilly line factoid
The Mind the Gap voice is that of David Archer from the archers.

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OliviaLMumsnet · 26/07/2012 21:20

I am going to move this into the less nerdy trainspotteresque fabulously unspecific Grin other subjects topic until such time as there are enough trainspotting nerd-like threads to warrant a whole topic.

Fact-ette for you: directly above the Aldwych tube station is the Classics Department of King's College, London, where I spent a fair amount of time snoozing in the mid 90s.

I will be back at some point to give you some more factoids; like I said, I love all this stuff.

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OlympiaMumsnet · 31/07/2012 20:16

@CJCregg

Lily, that app is amazing. I'm kind of disappointed that all my knowledge ha ha such as it is is freely available on an iPhone now, though. That took years to acquire. Grin

I know just how you feel. I was absolutely going to publish that knowledge as a tiny booklet too, when I got round to it before apps were invented

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OlympiaMumsnet · 31/07/2012 21:52

@CJCregg

Love the name, Olympia Grin

It's the tube traveller's version of The Knowledge, innit? 'Oxford Circus, Victoria Line? Getting out at Stockwell? Two thirds of the way dahn the platform, love, unless it's really full in which case you might wanna walk a bit further at the other end ...'

Yy, but it's also knowing when going from stop a to stop b if there are 2 possible routes that although it's fewer stops if you change at y station, that changing at z is less of a pita (e.g. southbound vic and bakerloo at ox circ)

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