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Since more than a million people use the tube every day this compendious site about all things tubular might interest some of you.
It lists many arcane tube-related factoids, such as:
Travelling on the tube for 40 minutes is the equivalent of smoking two cigarettes.
Only people to ever have their coffins transported by tube: William Gladstone and Dr Barnado.
The early escalators were made of wood (I remember those in pre Kings X fire days) and they used amputees with wooden legs to demonstrate that they were safe.
There are half a million mice living in the Underground system. The best places to spot them dancing on the tracks are Waterloo station (northbound on the Bakerloo line) and any platform at Oxford Circus. Anthea Turner wrote a series of children's books about them.
Only one person was ever born in a tube carriage (in 1924 on a Bakerloo line train at Elephant & Castle). She was christened Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor. I wonder if she still goes like a train?
All sorts of odd stuff about the tube on the site, including a gallery of photos from lost tube passes, a petition to extend tube running times, fine tube art and adverts, and tube etiquette rules. |
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