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« on: April 21, 2017, 20:40:24 »

Had fun with this

http://www.citymetric.com/transport/quiz-can-you-name-tube-station-when-name-has-been-removed-2971

17/18.
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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2017, 20:57:14 »

18/18, though if some of the options had been less obvious then I may have struggled a little more.
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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2017, 21:03:24 »

18/18, though if some of the options had been less obvious then I may have struggled a little more.


I worked out the answer to each before scrolling down to the options.   Lisa sitting beside me felt that I should have done better things with my life than learned the tube map!

Still need to refer back to a real map to sort out my Kew Gardens from my Gunnersbury ...
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2017, 21:18:18 »

Hadn't thought of that one, I just happened to select Gunnersbury. Having checked I'm guessing the difference is the stepfree symbol.
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« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2017, 21:26:11 »

Hadn't thought of that one, I just happened to select Gunnersbury. Having checked I'm guessing the difference is the stepfree symbol.

That could be it. I selected Kew Gardens because the I thought that the two lines should have been shown diverging just north of the station if it was Gunnersbury.
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« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2017, 21:57:13 »

In reality yes, Gunnersbury isn't far from Chiswick park but the lines on the map don't diverge until much further north.
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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2017, 22:06:54 »

About 10 minute walk as I remember, but about half the times I walk out of Chiswick Park to get to Gunnerbury, I have heard a Richmond Train pass by on the other line!
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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2017, 22:09:40 »

I remember a challenge on the ITV gameshow "You Bet!" back in the early 1990s where a kid did this with the lines not even in colour.  He not only had to identify the stations but also the lines shown.
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« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2017, 22:18:36 »

12/18. I struggled with the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) and Overground and also was confused by the Overground being a solid orange on a normal map and two orange lines here.
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« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2017, 22:22:20 »


Lisa sitting beside me felt that I should have done better things with my life than learned the tube map!


I think a lot of our partners feel that about the time we spend on here!
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2017, 23:48:05 »

Lisa sitting beside me felt that I should have done better things with my life than learned the tube map!
I think a lot of our partners feel that about the time we spend on here!

Yep - mine too!  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2017, 05:58:35 »

The "definitive" map for this quiz is - I think - http://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf

Yep, the one I got wrong was due to my consideration of the physical layout which the diagram doesn't reflect overtaking consideration of a wheelchair symbol. Oops - but then it's only a quiz!
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« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2017, 07:12:02 »

Smug  Cool

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« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2017, 08:25:47 »

12/18. I struggled with the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) and Overground and also was confused by the Overground being a solid orange on a normal map and two orange lines here.

The "definitive" map for this quiz is - I think - http://content.tfl.gov.uk/standard-tube-map.pdf

Yep, the one I got wrong was due to my consideration of the physical layout which the diagram doesn't reflect overtaking consideration of a wheelchair symbol. Oops - but then it's only a quiz!

Oh, I hadn't realised that some of the line colours on the tube map were different to the combined rail and tube map. http://content.tfl.gov.uk/london-rail-and-tube-services-map.pdf
I guess it is to better differentiate all the different rail services. As an all zone travelcard holder this is the map I refer to most because if I am travelling to outside London I can see where zone 6 ends on each National Rail line and buy a ticket starting from the last station in the zone.
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« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2017, 15:07:09 »

16/18 I blame finger trouble for one I click before moving the highlight and the other was Gunnesbury I thought that the divergence was nearer the station. Should have paid more attention to the Wheelchair symbol.
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