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Thanks again! It looks like that's been missed singe the beginning. It makes sense, there are 272 individual tube stations, but three (Hammersmith, Edgware Road, Paddington) share the same name, so there are only 269 with unique names. There are now 269 unique station names in the game when only...

Ah yes, this is a known issue with Chrome/Chromium based browers (https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/issues/4125).

Anything else you can tell me about when it happens? I've just had a quick try with firefox and it's OK - at least to begin with!

Good spot, thanks! Fixed.

I know, and I think Prof. Helm knows that too. My read of the article is that he's suggesting more can be done to use drones and other automated/remote monitoring technologies.

I think this is unfair. It's pretty clear from the article that he is referring to the use of drones in the context of inspection of network assets ("...drone usage in place of manual track inspections..." and "...this in turn requires information about the network and the location of the...

Hm. In that case the colour of my TfL roundel is wrong and now I am very confused. It's correct in the wikimedia source I got it from, so I must have changed it, but no idea why I would do that. Anyway, a simple fix. Not sure what I'll do to avoid the ambiguity - I suppose the obvious question...

Good point - the background is meant to be "TFL blue" and somehow I've copied the Piccadilly blue RGB values instead! As in, the react app source map? It's not deliberate, but the source is public anyway (https://gitlab.com/jamesfowkes/tube-station-game) so I'm not bothered about it. I don't...

Wasn't suggesting otherwise. Obviously I wasn't saying it like it was a law of physics. As my very next sentence says "Long distance driving isn't for everyone" - i.e. some people prefer the train.

Because the train is more comfortable than the drive? Long distance driving isn't for everyone, I can't stand it. I don't mind driving half an hour to a railway station though. Then I can let someone else do it.

Some kind of high capacity people mover system like the Luton Dart is probably what's required if Willesden is to take a lot of onward travel. The Luton Airport DART (for example) can handle about 2500pphpd. Assuming OOC handles 6x 1100-seat trains per hour, that's 13,200 passenger movements per...

To my understanding, paths and platform space are at a premium at Paddington. Heathrow Express is still twice as fast as the Elizabeth line but is also twice the price and only serves Paddington - I imagine the Elizabeth line must have severely cut into Heathrow Express passenger numbers? If...

For those asking about Euston vs Paddington, the HS2 railway, UK: route optioneering document details the station selection, on page 7, from 27 initial options, to 10, then to 4 and finally to 1 preferred (Euston) and two alternatives (Euston double-deck and "King's Cross Lands - cut and...

Yeah that's why I added the "hide found stations" option in the settings - I couldn't find any easy way to make it look neat except by getting rid of them entirely! Good advice from both of you! Though if the game gets popular enough that TfL are interested, I will be seriously amazed.

Hi all, Mods: please delete or move if you feel this is not appropriate. I've written a game where you have to find all the rail stations on the TfL network (Underground, DLR, Elizabeth Line, Overground and London Trams): findthetube.com. I'd love for people to try it out and let me know what...

Funnily, marshland is normally considered quite an effective way of preventing flooding. It can hold a lot more water than (for example) a golf course or farmland and so prevent water from flooding areas you care more about. But yeah if your railway is in the marshland itself, not so good.

There is a discrepancy between the wording as @AdamWW describes it and the recording that @MrJeeves provided. In the OPs wording, it is "Be prepared to vacate the seat or purchase a first class ticket". In the recording it is "Please vacate the seat or be prepared to purchase a first class...

You could save maybe 15 seconds by rebuilding Steventon Bridge properly!

In this twitter thread Simon Kendler confirms that both the route as you describe and also Euston are being tested today: Specifically this set of tweets:

Does the total journey distance really matter to people? Cost and time are going to be the drivers when deciding to travel via a particular route. Distance is of course a factor in both cost and time, but not the only factor, and probably not the most important one in either case.