What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?
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24 Mar
9:16pm, 24 Mar 2025
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Jason1969
Michael Aspel is still alive.
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24 Mar
9:49pm, 24 Mar 2025
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Eynsham Red
+1 ^^^
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24 Mar
9:57pm, 24 Mar 2025
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Night-owl
@Jason1969 I'm terrible that was my first thought
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25 Mar
8:49am, 25 Mar 2025
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GordonG
That the london underground Victoria Line was originally going to be called the Viking Line because it linked Victoria Station and Kings Cross station
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25 Mar
9:01am, 25 Mar 2025
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Mushroom
That opens up a whole raft of ideas for other lines.. Piccadilly Line: The Earl's-Cock line (Earl's Court / Cockfosters)... |
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25 Mar
9:11am, 25 Mar 2025
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GordonG
lol. that is actually how the Bakerloo line got its name - a London newspaper (the Standard??) shortened the Baker Street to Waterloo line to Bakerloo and it stuck.
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25 Mar
10:18am, 25 Mar 2025
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Jason1969
Makes me wonder how they got the idea for the circle line.
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25 Mar
10:44am, 25 Mar 2025
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NordRunner
Nobody would’ve liked the Polyhedral Line.
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25 Mar
1:33pm, 25 Mar 2025
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Musashi
The Thameslink line that runs north-south through central London, crossing Blackfriars rail bridge, is known as the BedPan line because it serves major stations at Bedford and St Pancras.
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25 Mar
1:53pm, 25 Mar 2025
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ChrisHB
[ That was true before TL but I doubt it is true once you're south of St P ]
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