If the tube went south of the river

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Wow

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago) link

Uuuhhh... hello? Brixton? Balham-Clapham-Tooting? The tube DOES go South of the River!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha, oh wait, I get it now. Har har. And Streatham would be on the bloody Northern Line, typical. :-(

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

awesome

and if you rotate it counter-clockwise you can go to Crawley and Potters Bar (maybe)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

Thta's quite clever. ppl from south London are always complaining that there aren't enough tube links down there aren't they?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

unlike the Hackney mob lol

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link

If only the Picture Gallery were the Mornington Crescent of South London. Then the Giant Glowing Bubbletentballoon That Rules The Universe From The Heart Of Dulwich Park would make more sense!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago) link

according to this map, i would've spent the last year with my nearest tube station being Carshalton (tho it would still be Manor House if i did the literal thing). from next week it would be Stratford (or Malden Road if we were all upside down and hamburgers ate people).

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

Elephant & Castle has disappeared.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

No it hasn't.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

OH GOD, I JUST REALISED THAT STREATHAM IS HOXTON!!! I CAN'T ESCAPE!!! OH NO!!!!!!!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

This map is even more disorientating than the real one, which, as far as I know, shows directions approximately correctly if not distance.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link

Waaah! On that map I don't have a tube! The closest one to Highgate is bleedin' Finsbury Park. I like the stations named after pubs though.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

Which is something I've noticed bus stops do as well, when they aren't noted as being opposite roads crossing the route. I guess pubs are likely to be fairly permanent objects, hence useful landmarks.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago) link

Woah! North Roehampton posse reprazent! (tho I'd have preferred it to have been called South Barnes, obv)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago) link

Which ones are pubs?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

A Roehampton tube would've been dead handy for my pal N. when she lived in London.

There's potential for a Central Line extension to Portsmouth.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago) link

Pubs: Bricklayer's Arms, Sun In The Sands, Leg Of Mutton...

Haha I just noticed that CHESSINGTON WORLD OF ADVENTURE has a station.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago) link

I remember when that was a zoo.

― Very Old MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago) link

is it not a zoo as well anymore?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

It was still a zoo last time I was there. I seem to remember seeing a pair of walrusses who'd been married for 30 years or something. And they had a very cute baby gorilla. We went on a rubbish Runaway Train ride, and the little kid in the carriage behind us didn't stop giggling all the way through. And at the end, as we got off, he turned to his mum and said "Oh wow, this really IS a world of adventures, isn't it?". Awww.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

awesome
and if you rotate it counter-clockwise you can go to Crawley and Potters Bar (maybe)

if you rotate it counter-clockwise it'd still be the same map?? (you'd have to flip the map rather than rotate i think...)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

no, rotate the map counter-clockwise, albeit only 90 degrees

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:12 (twenty years ago) link

I seem to remember seeing a pair of walrusses who'd been married for 30 years or something. And they had a very cute baby gorilla.

very liberal in their adoption policies, these Surrey folks.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

It's dubious whether Welling (mychildhood 'hood) needs four stations (five if you include Danson Park), seeing as it comprises one shitty high street. And Albany Park only three stops away from Swanley? It's a lovely idea (or would be if I didn't now live in north London) but clearly made by somebody with no geographical knowledge (at least of southeast London).

― Mog, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

but that's the whole point of the tube map. It's supposed to look nice, not be correct geographically. A geographically correct tube map would have a spaghetti-ish mass of lines in the middle and they'd have to have numbers and a key for the station lines coz if they tried to write them in full then Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square and Covent Garden would have to be written on top of each other!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

but i thought mog's point was that even operationally it'd be rubbish.. like the stations aren't put in the best places possible (like 4 stations on one high street ..although of course there's the leicester sq covent garden picadilly etc craziness in real life tube too)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, but lots of people want to go to Leicester Square/Covent Garden/Piccadilly Circus. Nobody in their right mind wants to go to Welling. Though I'm sure there'd be a lot of people queuing to get out...

― Mog, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

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