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The answers are...
Q1) Bond Street & Heathrow T4
Q2) Iver
Q3) Heathrow Airport Terminals 2&3
Q4) Ilford
Q5) b) £17
Q6) Heathrow Airport
Q7) Liverpool Street
Q8) Paddington or Liverpool Street
Q9) Reading or Heathrow T4
Q10) Hanwell or Ealing Broadway
How did you do?
diamond geezer | Homepage | 21.05.22 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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Well answering Old Oak Common for Q1 was an error… Great quiz, the Reading bit is a real surprise!
James Scantlebury | 21.05.22 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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Q6 : anywhere, if you've got a Freedom pass
amber | 21.05.22 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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Five! (well, four whole and two half-answers)
THC | 21.05.22 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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I knew Q9 was going to be a trap - Everyone will initially think of Abbey Wood. I thought it might have been one of the stops just west of Abbey Wood. Didn't think I'd need to go as far west as Reading though!
Jon Jones | 21.05.22 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Woolwich and Abbey Wood are two miles further north than all the Heathrow stations. Such is cross-London geography.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 21.05.22 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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8/10, happy with that.
Went for TCR in Q3, and then Stratford for Q7; didn't think I'd need to split tube lines out individually.
Great quiz.
BP | 21.05.22 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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Q7 - this is just a moan about 'separate' TfL services, the Underground has separate tube lines whereas the DLR and Overground don't even though both Liverpool Street and Stratford are served by more than one distinct DLR/Overground service.
Still Anon | 21.05.22 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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Reading and Heathrow being on opposite sides of the M4 meant I’ve always wrongly assumed Heathrow is further south.
When looking at the map I noticed there is a Shinfield near Reading which looks like perfect material for a future post comparing it to Shenfield.
Cjw714 | 21.05.22 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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I got 8/10, which is a nice start to the day.
Even by leaving "Airport" out I still got to the correct answer for Q3 ;)
Entertained | 21.05.22 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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Five, without looking things up. Better than I thought I'd do
Steve | 21.05.22 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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Concerned | 21.05.22 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Half point then another half point!
I've obviously not been paying as much attention as I should have - a recurring theme first noted on my school reports!
Cornish Cockney | 21.05.22 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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The ‘wrong type of concrete’ ?
Lew | 21.05.22 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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Hanwell is indeed delightful and I have visited twice just to see it.
daveid76 | 21.05.22 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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9/10, just couldn't work out the oldest station
Tony | 21.05.22 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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I assume the name of the station at Heathrow has settled down. For a long time, as well as either including or omitting reference to T1, Heathrow themselves often called it Heathrow Central to match the bus station upstairs.
Andrew S | 21.05.22 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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5/10 - must try harder
Anders | 21.05.22 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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I thought they rebuilt the three 7-car platforms in Liverpool Street Classic to be two 9-car platforms.
Basil Jet | 21.05.22 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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In 2020 I worked on a site in central London where we encountered "unexpected problems with pre-existing concrete".
The existing building dated from the late 1940's, being a "re-build" of a bombed one. Demolition of the building went as planned from roof to ground floor slab went exactly to plan. However, when we came to break up the ground slab we discovered that it was not a slab - it was twelve feet of 75 year old mass concrete poured into the bomb crater, this being the quickest way to stabilise the "excavation". It took 6 months to break out ...
strawbrick | 21.05.22 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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If Cjw714 has tempted you to visit Shinfield, you'll probably find a lot more building going on than you will in Shenfield. But make sure you go to Shinfield proper. Despite the large 'Hello Shinfield' in the window of the KFC on Shinfield Road, that area is emphatically not Shinfield, which is actually about a mile and a half further south and beyond the M4. *Removes bee from bonnet*
Keith from Reading | 21.05.22 - 12:52 p.m. | #
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I got 8/10. The 2 I didn't get were 5 & 10.
X-Plaistow | 21.05.22 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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I remember Hanwell Station from the 1980's when it was already being given special consideration as shown by the use of "heritage" lighting fixtures in its environs. It's good to hear it being given continued recognition.
cau1khead | 21.05.22 - 3:00 p.m. | #
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Also answered OOC for Q1, turns out to have been a much simpler answer!
Happy with my 6/10
barbicanman | 21.05.22 - 6:10 p.m. | #
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And another piece of trivia - how many times does the totality of CrossRail (my spelling!) cross the Thames?
Joel | 21.05.22 - 6:25 p.m. | #
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What I haven't yet managed to find out is the carriage of unfolded bicycle rules. It appears that the trains have been provisioned with space for bikes...
Nick K | 22.05.22 - 11:58 a.m. | #
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Non-folded bikes are permitted EXCEPT on weekdays on trains...
...in the central section between 07:30–09:30 and 16:00–19:00
...arriving at Liverpool Street 07:45–09:45
...leaving Liverpool Street 16:30–19:30
...arriving Paddington 07:45–09:45
...leaving Paddington 16:30–19:00
diamond geezer | Homepage | 22.05.22 - 3:55 p.m. | #
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