Railway Trivia Question

[Iain]

Ah okay, railway trivia - I got mixed up with the more general facts thread. And it's two not one lol

[DrainBrain]

Nobody got my last question, to which the answer is that they were all "shrunk down" by the magic of television and travelled on model railways - Bernard for a Hornby advert, Ronnie C & B for a musical sketch about a narrow gauge train driver and fireman (filmed on the well-known Dovey Valley Railway layout) and Jules rode on his own model railway/slot car layout in the opening credits to one of his TV shows.

Now a new question - what do the numbers one, seven, nine and ten have in common? (And no, "One of Ten" wasn't a Borg Drone....)

They're the only numbers that appear on the tube map - Marylebone, Seven Sisters, Nine Elms and Tottenham Court Road

Maybe just tube stations specifically, because otherwise there's also Brentwood.

[RobbieM]

That's just if we're talking integers. Don't forget our friend pi. In Pinner...

[RJSRdg]

Nobody got my last question, to which the answer is that they were all "shrunk down" by the magic of television and travelled on model railways - Bernard for a Hornby advert, Ronnie C & B for a musical sketch about a narrow gauge train driver and fireman (filmed on the well-known Dovey Valley Railway layout) and Jules rode on his own model railway/slot car layout in the opening credits to one of his TV shows.

Now a new question - what do the numbers one, seven, nine and ten have in common? (And no, "One of Ten" wasn't a Borg Drone....)

They're the only numbers that appear on the tube map - Marylebone, Seven Sisters, Nine Elms and Tottenham Court Road

Also Totteridge and Whetstone and Leytonstone.

2,3,4 and 5 also appear on the Tube Map in Arabic numerals rather than as words.

[Lunaticonthegrass]

That's just if we're talking integers. Don't forget our friend pi. In Pinner...

And e in... more stations than I care to mention.

And if we include imaginary numbers...

[RobbieM]

And of course, a ‘number’ could refer to a song or performance, which could also be classed as a ‘turn’. How’s about Turnpike Lane?

Sorry folks, brain’s doing odd things again…

[ANDY_JS]

I have no idea which thread to post this in, but something has just occurred to me that I've never thought of before about the Tube, which may be obvious to everyone else. It's the question of travelling from one end of the Northern Line to the other, and whether or not it would usually be a good idea to change onto the Victoria Line for the middle section. So if you're going from Morden to High Barnet, instead of just sitting on the same train for the entire journey, you change to the Victoria Line at Stockwell and back to the Northern Line at Euston. Would this usually be faster? I'll have to look at the timetables on Google Maps to find out.

[RobbieM]

Seems much faster by Victoria. 12 minutes, as opposed to Northern’s 22 minutes. With easy cross-platform interchanges.

[RJSRdg]

Which railway station served by Greater Anglia contains the name of a former Formula One circuit?

[Oggm]

Around what axis would it be cheapest to rotate the whole London Underground network by 90 degrees in any direction; this would require the demolition, transportation, and reconstruction of all rails, stations, and LUL infrastructure? This would have to be a precise and exact tranformation; equating for the altitude of stations for instance. Any current London structures in the way would have to be demolished for the sake of the underground. How expensive would it be?

[RobbieM]

Which railway station served by Greater Anglia contains the name of a former Formula One circuit?

Braintree! Contains “Aintree”.

[greatkingrat]

Braintree Freeport!

[RobbieM]

Braintree Freeport!

Oh yeah, I forgot there were two of them!

[RJSRdg]

Braintree Freeport!

Oh yeah, I forgot there were two of them!

So did I!

[RJSRdg]

Around what axis would it be cheapest to rotate the whole London Underground network by 90 degrees in any direction; this would require the demolition, transportation, and reconstruction of all rails, stations, and LUL infrastructure? This would have to be a precise and exact tranformation; equating for the altitude of stations for instance. Any current London structures in the way would have to be demolished for the sake of the underground. How expensive would it be?

Do you actually have ananswer for this, or is it just a muse?