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Did You Know

• ...that the Underground's architect Charles Holden and LPTB Managing Director Frank Pick were both sons of drapers?
• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?
• ...that the Westway, the West Cross Route and the East Cross Route are the only parts of the GLC's 1960s plan for the London Motorway Box that were built?
• ...that prior to the transfer of most of the route to the Central line in 1947, the Fairlop Loop saw circular services running from Liverpool Street to Stratford to Ilford to Woodford to Stratford to Liverpool Street?