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[edit] Mile End

I just added the fact that Mile End is the only station from which you can travel to every other station of the tube and DLR without changing more than once. I heard this a while ago, but I'm now thinking that perhaps you can also do this from Hammersmith? Some stations are "near misses", e.g. Ealing Broadway fails because you can't get to Baker Street in one go (from which to get the Met to Chesham during peak hours. As far as I can tell there isn't an Aldgate to Chesham service.) I'm not sure that you can do this from Hammersmith but I'm tired right now so maybe someone can work out if this is possible. Trious 00:59, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I can't work out a set of restrictions that leaves only Mile End without also leaving Liverpool St. So I've removed it. --Dtcdthingy 04:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I think you would mean travel to any other station not every

[edit] Records

Records is NOT trivia, so I removed it. Lenny 11:51, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greenford

I changed the bit of trivia on Greenford because it is not the only station where you have to go up from street level to the plaforms as there are many others - most of the Hammersmith and City line between Goldhawk Road and Ladbroke Grove for example. The escalators thing is true though. Mister Ant 06:34, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Isn't Greenford the only station which also still uses some wooden escalators, or am i mixing that with another station? Simply south 08:18, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I thought there was escalators that go up on the Jubilee line out east, somewhere like Stratford?

[edit] District line has most stations?

A common piece of trivia is that the District Line has the most stations? Doesn't this sort of thing belong here? As well as stuff like the least stations and the longest and shortest lines, and the two stations furthest apart and closest together? Does anyone know the answer to these questions? Carcharoth 16:04, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Shortest distance between stations: Covent Garden to Leicester Square on the Piccadilly Line Longest distance " ": Finsbury Park to Seven Sisters Shortest Line: Waterloo and City (also least stations) Longest Lines: District Line, Central Line or Northern Line

Central = Longest continuous journey between Epping and West Ruislip Northern = Longest continuous tunnel between ... its either Highgate\East Finchley or Golders Green ... and Morden via bank

District = possibly longest when all branches added on.

Metropolitan = longest distance outside London especially to Chesham

There we are. Common trivia and answer to the questions. Yes they belong here.

Simply south 21:11, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Hopefully someone will add all this trivia, as I don't have time now. One thing, the Waterloo and City line is a bit of an obvious case for least number of stations. I was thinking more of the line with the least number of stations other than that, but then I realised that what I was really after was a list of the all the lines with their number of stations. Carcharoth 02:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Lines table at London Underground#Lines now updated with number of stations. Carcharoth 02:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

The only other line i can think of with the least number of lines is soon-to-be-ex-LU ELL. Hope that helps. Simply south 11:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Three lines with least number of stations are W&C (2), ELL (8) and Victoria (16). Carcharoth 12:56, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

And re: distances, what about Finchley Road to Wembley Park? See Image:Metropolitan_Line.png. Carcharoth 13:11, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

The victoria Line - probably longest between stations in tunnel. Anyway, i'm not sure about metropolitan. Piccadilly could also be longest - Hammersmith to Acton Town excluding Turnham Green.

H&C could also qualify if ignoring the service between Whitechapel and Barking. Therefore 19. This service is sometimes ignored by the LU or it says occurs in peak hours (which i personally do not believe happens).

Simply south 14:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. They have the District Line trains to cover that part of the line instead, don't they? Carcharoth 15:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking the H&C goes to Barking most of the time. Simply south 15:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

H&C trains do reach Barking in the rush hour (I use them sometimes) Esthameian 07:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some useful links

Some useful links to add trivia, or more ethically to link to from here, as just copying their trivia would be dodgy: [1] and [2] and in general that whole FAQ is very useful [3]. It includes things like this! Carcharoth 10:34, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia?

I came here expecting stuff about the longest escalator and the deepest station etc., where can this type of information be found? Htaccess 21:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

stuff like this: http://solo2.abac.com/themole/tubefacts.html

[edit] WP:AVTRIV - implications of guidelines for this article

The guidelines suggest that trivia in Wikipedia should be avoided and all trivia should be either merged or deleted, effectively making this article unencyclopedic. Is there anyway that information in this article could be merged into relevant articles? --tgheretford (talk) 22:17, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to say, the tivia template doesn't make sense in this article. Simply south 22:48, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to say, your remark doesn't make sense here. The article is not about "tivia" but trivia! --Krawunsel 15:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Before anyone else nominates this article for deletion...

This should be pointed out to anyone else who's looking at this article and going "Oh noes! Trivia! WP:AVTRIV disapproves!": This article is here because for whatever reason, the London Underground seems to have enormous amounts of factoids associated with it. When we deleted them from the headline London Underground article they usually reappeared again pretty quickly, so in the end we hived the whole lot off to London Underground trivia, which performs a very useful purpose. It's survived two AFDs from the kind of overzealous rules lawyers Wikipedia seems to specialise in producing, so please don't AFD it again or plunk stupid "Oh noes! Here are trivia!" templates on the article (well, duh, it's a trivia article) without actually engaging your brain and appreciating why this article is here in the first place. Thanks! --Mike 21:24, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

It's also a huge shame that some WP-anti-trivia-bashers treat WP (which is essentially like any encyclopedia just a ragbag of widely held opinion masquerading as fact) trivia with such hostility, since it is in most cases much more interesting than anything else in the "encyclopedia". This page is a classic example, much, much more fun and interesting than the main article. MarkThomas 10:56, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stations with no ground-level buildings

What about Chancery Lane? It just has steps down from High Holborn. The street-level buildings are now shops. Dmccormac 21:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Records -- longest distance between two under-ground stations

"The longest distance between two underground stations is between Caledonian Road and Kings Cross St Pancras on the Piccadilly line."

OK, but what is the distance between these two under-ground stations?

EdJogg 17:07, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shortest distance between stations

In this edit an anon user is implying that the shortest distance between stations is between Embankment and Charing Cross - presumably because the map shows an interchange possibility with a 100m walk. Bear in mind this refers to 100m being the distance between the entrance of Embankment station and the closest entrance to Charing Cross mainline - which is comepletely different! DrFrench 16:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Highest Point is incorrect

The article states, The highest point on the Underground is the viaduct over Dollis Road between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East on the Northern Line. It is approximately 60m (66 yards) above the ground. I know the viaduct well, but that's ridiculously high, it's higher than than top of Nelson's Column. 172.207.154.18 17:07, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Can you find and state written evidence of this, then, please? TheIslander 19:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
What, that 60m is higher than than top of Nelson's Column? Look it up yourself. But your reply has nothing to do with this topic, does it? 172.142.130.19 19:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
No, that the viaduct isn't that high. Besides, if you're so certain that it's not correct, be bold and change it. TheIslander 19:30, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Sorted. Waggers 09:41, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why restored