London Underground The Quiz Book by Mike Dugdale

Author:Mike Dugdale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: quiz, tube, london, underground, roundel, harry, beck, pub
ISBN: 9781783332939
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2013
Published: 2013-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

Answers

Jubilee

British Museum

1933

The Central line

Seven Sisters Road (Holloway)

Tooting Bec

Pimlico

The Northern line between Mill Hill East and Finchley Central station, which 18m above the ground as it crosses Dollis Brook viaduct

Prince of Wales and Mark Twain

16 miles (26 km)

1983

Harrow & Wealdstone

1968, using a recording by Peter Lodge

St John’s Wood (but only because it’s written as “St”, as opposed to “Saint”)

Shepherd’s Bush : Central. Shepherd’s Bush Market : Circle, and Hammersmith & City

Baker Street, with 10

Leicester Square to Covent Garden (Piccadilly line) at 260m (0.161 miles)

1907 at Holloway Road station, invented by Jesse W. Reno

Action Town and Woodside Park, respectively

1st June 2008

Walford East. From Walthamstow and Stratford

4.50

Gillespie Road (1906), but renamed to Arsenal (Highbury Hill) in 1932

Highbury & Islington

Charles Tyson Yerkes

St Mary’s

Euston Road

Barons Court

It doesn’t allow entry to the station

Paddinton

Stonebridge Park

3 - Clapham Junction is an overground station

Farringdon Street and Paddington

Five (Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chesham, Chorleywood, and Epping)

1984, following a fire at Oxford Circus. The first permenant ban occured in 1987 following the Kings Cross fire

Metropolitan Railway

Mornington Crescent

Great Central

Lords, Marlborough Road, and Swiss Cottage (which differs from the current one bearing its name)

Moor Park

16

Hatton Cross

Wood Lane, opened in 2008. (Although a previous station called Wood Lane did exist.)

Dover Street

Cannon Street

Stockwell

Fleet line

Holborn (Kingsway)

Queensway

Northfields and Cockfosters

44 miles (71 km)

Marie Cordery (not Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor, alas)

Finsbury Park

Earl’s Court

City and South London Railway

Bakerloo, Circle, Hammersmith & City , and District

Uxbridge

1961

West Ruislip to Epping, at 34.1 miles

Waterloo

36

Bounds Green

Bank

Liverpool Street Station (closed in 1978), and Sloane Square (closed in 1985)

1994

Charles Pearson

Queensbury

Charing Cross

Both north and south, as of 2012

Lambeth North

Positive

249

Angel, 60m

Gants Hill

Chalfont & Latimer, Elephant & Castle, Harrow & Wealdstone, Highbury & Islington, Totteridge & Whetstone

29

“Please look after this bear, thank you”

53

Stamford Brook, on 5 th January 1964

Clapham North and Clapham Common

1908

Hendon Central

Stanley Heaps

Mark Lane

Northern line, under Holly Bush Hill in Hampstead

17 miles (27 km)

46 miles (74 km)

249 miles (402 km)

Waterloo, with 23

49

Ealing Common and Upminster

Bank

Elephant and Castle. It’s called the Strata

Earl’s Court

Finchley Central

20.5 mph

Metropolitan Railway

Tim Bentinck, who plays David Archer in The Archers

Amersham, at 147m

Warren Street

Bumper Harris, a man with a wooden leg. Although this may be apocryphal

Maida Vale

Kensington (Olympia)

Seven Sisters and Finsbury Park

Kings Cross St Pancras, with 6 lines and 2 national rail stations

Queen’s Park, and north

Earl’s Court, King’s Cross St Pancras, Queen’s Park, Regent’s Park, St James’s Park, St John’s Wood, St Paul’s, Shepherd’s Bush, Shepherd’s Bush Market

Metropolitan, at over 60mph

Anti-suicide pits

December 2009

Metropolitan

West Ruislip, Hainault, and White City

St Mary’s

London Underground Limited

Harrow on the Hill (Hoth)

426

Finchley Central

The drain

Finsbury Park

Hampstead

Mornington Crescent

Southgate

Stockwell

Clapham Common

Stratford Market, and Neasden

Kew Gardens

14.4 miles (23.2 km)

Knightsbridge

Harry Beck

?23

Roding Valley

Two pence

John Fowler

Metroland

Northern line

Baker Street

25

Bromley-by-Bow

Greenford

None. But stations do exist in 1&2, 2&3, 3&4, 5&6, and 6&7

St. Pauls

Ruislip Gardens

Golders Green

West Ruislip

Aldgate East

Mansion House, and South Ealing

With cyanide

“for Watling” (although it was dropped from the name in 1950)

Paddinton

Chalk Farm (30 feet)

40 miles (64 km)

50

Victoria

London Bridge

Caxton Curve

2007

William Gladstone and Dr Barnardo

22 miles (36 km)

Kew Gardens

Northumberland Park

Stratford

Charing Cross

Bank, and Oval

Southgate

41 miles (67 km)

Paddinton

1933, on the 18 th of September

Victoria

Arnos Grove

Johnson typeface

-210 V to +420 V, DC

Parsons Green, Turnham Green, and Stepney Green (all on District). Redbridge (Central)

Stratford, 4.1m

Bermondsey

Neasden

Madeleine. But it was

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