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Hanger Lane Sign

TfL have been sneaky buggers and gone and snuck in a brand new station on the Central Line without telling anyone!

In fact, it had us confused for a moment, as we thought they’d connected up the Central Line to a Hammersmith & City / Circle Line station – but that’s Shepherd’s Bush Market, but no! This is a brand new station.

What are we talking about? Well the platform signage at Hanger Lane tells the tale, here are the signs on the platform from a distance.

Hanger Lane Signage

Then, when you get up close, you realise something a little odd about one of the station names – that’s right, instead of ‘Shepherd’s Bush’, they’ve indicated that the Central Line stops at ‘Shepherd’s Bush Green‘ which is new to us!

Shepherds Bush Green on the Central Line

It’s not the first time that this has happened – LU have form, for adding in the word ‘Green’, there used to be a sign (see it here) at Mile End station indicating that the District Line stopped at a station called Putney Green. They removed it in 2010. I wonder how long it’ll take them to correct this one at Hanger Lane …

(Thanks to Shrey Puranik for the heads up on this)

Update – We’ve heard on Twitter that there might be a sign like this at Chancery Lane too, we’ll pop down later for a photo…

Fun / Signage — — 01 Aug 14

Blend in

Because sometimes, what you really really need in life is a T-Shirt that matches the Central Line moquette, right? Right!

More details here.

Central Line T-Shirt

Fun / Tube — — 02 Jul 14

Canary Wharf Seating

The largest roundels at platform level on the tube system … are impressive, so impressive in fact that it seems that some people want to climb up onto them and use them as seating! Like you do …

Take a pew …

Fun — — 14 Jun 14

After the Tube strike

Musical comedy (and Tube fan) Jay Foreman was on Not The One Show the other week, just after the Tube strike – and before the next strike had not yet been called off. They asked him to write a song about the strikes, and he obliged.

We saw it at the time, but we’ve only just spotted that he’s uploaded it to his YouTube channel.

Fun / Video — — 18 May 14

Easter Bus

That nice chap Tim Dunn created a rather fun picture doing the rounds on the internet yesterday which we rather like – although targeted towards National Rail services (and closure by Network Rail over the weekend) the Tube is having its fair share of replacement bus services (e.g. on the District Line) over the weekend.

Happy Easter everyone!

Easter Replacement Buses

Engineering / Fun — — 18 Apr 14

London’s Longest Pub Crawl

We stumbled upon another Tube themed blog that we liked yesterday – that of the one written by Sam Cullen who is visiting one pub for each of the 270 stations on the network, and he’s just passed his 100th stop – West Ham.

The Mission (as he describes it) is to “Visit a pub for each of the 270 stations on the network.”

270 stops on this pub crawl

His journey started in March 2013 at Paddington Station, where the first train on what is now the Underground departed on 9th January 1863 and is progressing in the order each Underground station opened to the public.

Fun — — 17 Apr 14

Professionally drawn maps

We’re considering hiring John Cutts (@CEOJohnCutts) here at Station Master to help us draw up some of the 3D Station Maps. He recently sent us a pictorial CV, as a demonstration of his work …

Nicely drawn map

Alternative Tube Maps / Fun — — 16 Apr 14

Alternative Poetry

Ah, you’ve all seen those badly-scanning poems on the tube that advise of things like to take your newspaper with you, yes? They irritate us just as much as you – don’t worry, but someone’s finally done something about it.

The Poke website have got a whole page with parodies of them – and whilst we haven’t actually seen one on a train yet, surely it can’t be long until someone actually does print one out and stick it up for real … right?

Don’t be a twat

Fun — — 10 Apr 14

Little things

We like this from twitter user Ben Walters who today on his travels spotted that someone on the District Line at Westminster had taken it upon themselves to write and leave some uplifting post-it notes on the route diagram on the platform …

Happy Post It notes

Fun — — 09 Apr 14

Charity Tube Challenge … Completed!

Here’s what a group of twenty people look like having completed the Tube Challenge and visited all 270 stations in one day for the charity event Walk The Tube.

We started on the 05.15 out of Chesham, and completed 18 hours, 13 minutes and 29 seconds later.

We made a slight cheat in that we used the Overground to visit Kensington Olympia, because it’s hard enough scheduling that in on a regular challenge – getting it to work for a mass-group was never going to happen, but it was good enough for us!

Anyone fancy another one next year?

At the finish, at Heathrow Terminal 5

Events / Fun — — 05 Apr 14

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