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Title: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: grahame 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.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Adelante_CCT 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.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: grahame 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 ...


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Adelante_CCT 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.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: grahame 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.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Adelante_CCT 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.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: ellendune 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!


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Zoe 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.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Surrey 455 on April 21, 2017, 22:18:36
12/18. I struggled with the DLR and Overground and also was confused by the Overground being a solid orange on a normal map and two orange lines here.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: bobm 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!


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Chris from Nailsea 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!  ::)



Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: grahame 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!


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Oxonhutch on April 22, 2017, 07:12:02
Smug  8)

... and sad!


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Surrey 455 on April 22, 2017, 08:25:47
12/18. I struggled with the DLR 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.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: eightf48544 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.


Title: Re: Identify tube station from unlabelled map
Post by: Tim on April 24, 2017, 13:27:52
one wrong - West Ham (incidentally the only station on the network named after two things that ISIS hate)



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