Underground and Overground Trivia

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Vauxhall is the only station that is also a Russian word

[M1104]

Technically speaking there are two Charing Cross branches, the Northern Line (to distinguish from the Bank branch) and the passenger defunct Charing Cross Station on the Jubilee Line that's branched off eastbound prior to the line's 90s-built JLE section.

[M1104]

Hainault has the shallowest lift on the Underground, the lift rising eighteen inches as an alternative to climbing around four steps. Geoff Marshall gives that demonstration at 01:08


youtu.be/Qpgpv07pnyA

[wirewiper]

Jan 27, 2022 18:31:39 GMT M1104 said:

Hainault has the shallowest lift on the Underground, the lift rising eighteen inches as an alternative to climbing around four steps. Geoff Marshall gives that demonstration at 01:08


youtu.be/Qpgpv07pnyA

I would have thought a ramp would do the job, but maybe there isn't room to install one with a sufficiently shallow gradient. 

[Busboy105]

Caledonian Road (Underground) and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury (Overground) is the two closest stations that aren't an OSI