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What London Underground line do you least like?
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Never knew that. I was aware of the River Graveney around there, but was always mystified by the "Bec". Perhaps a bit more interesting now, but I would still prefer if "Tooting Bec" were renamed "Trinity Road" following the practice used elsewhere on LU of naming stations after a side road that meets at the point, in the absence of better features (eg Turnpike Lane, Mornngton Crescent, Great Portland Street etc).
Clapham South should have been "Nightingale Lane", very evocative, especially as it is quite away from Clapham as we know it, being on the far side of the Common. "Clapham North" ... maybe could have been "Bedford Road".
Yep, Bakerloo reminds me of travelling on the system in the early to mid 90s, before it all got modernised. Obviously was nerepair workc was necessary but some of it, like Knightsbridge was little short of vandalism IMO.
Least favourite line for me is Central in summer. Just too hot.
Or they could just be called Clapham North and South so the rest of us know where we stand!
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Tooting Bec was originally known as Trinity Road (Tooting Bec), the TB part being in much smaller lettering on the platform signs iirc. (I have seen photos of the signs, and could claim to have actually seen them in place too, but it's unlikely at the tender age of two the detail would have registered!)
So you didn’t realise Morden station wasn’t in a tunnel ?
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But it was, as Lucan said, under the ground, unlike many places on the London Underground system.
Has to be the Piccadilly line for me, especially when trying to get on anything heading from Acton Town towards Uxbridge. It just feels as though that section of line is often forgotten about when it comes to service frequencies. I have friends who live in Ickenham, and it's such a pain getting to them on the Piccadilly line from the southwestern corner of zone 1.
I saw it was in a deep box with a tunnel at both ends. (for those who don't know it, southwards it goes under a wide high street to the depot [surface]). So similar to the Circle Line stations that I had also seen.
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Central between Marble Arch and Liverpool Street. Noisy, spectacularly hot, and almost always crowded armpit to armpit.
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I only recently found this out, and was slightly disappointed it wasn’t short for Becquerel or something equally multisyllabic.
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