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After not looking at it for nearly a week, another one came to me this morning so I'm on 97.8% with 13 stations to go. There's about five of those that I really should get so I'm not giving up yet.
 
Capybara said:
After not looking at it for nearly a week, another one came to me this morning so I'm on 97.8% with 13 stations to go. There's about five of those that I really should get so I'm not giving up yet.
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I'm worried your mind might actually snap, at this point...
 
I've been avoiding looking at maps. I have five DLR and eight Overground left mostly in East London.
 
VestasBoro said:
4.3% now im struggling. I'll get a few more but not many
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I got up to 30.6 with help from the Mrs, thinking about football, monopoly, TV and football - and alot of adjusting names to get them perfect for the site.
I had a google after and don't think any of the ones i missed i'd ever get in a million years.
 
Capybara said:
Yes. The one about Bingham Road.

I added another Overground station yesterday so one to go. And it's one I really should have got by now.
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I tried to not watch any of his vlogs when I was doing it so I had to do it all by memory (not failsafe, that) - I got to 62% then changed my laptop so I stopped at that point!

There are definitely an awful lot of them I'd never have got, even some of the ones in central London round Hyde Park etc.

I'm back watching his stuff again ;)
 
I've tried all the monopoly squares that I can think of, plus London based football clubs and the handful of stations that I have ever been to. There is no way that I will get close to 25%!
 
Steer said:
I've tried all the monopoly squares that I can think of, plus London based football clubs and the handful of stations that I have ever been to. There is no way that I will get close to 25%!
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Even if you're an established railway nerd (cough) it's tricky as it wants the full name - so all these 'Broadway" and "High Road" names can knack you too.
 
Somehow got to 28% this afternoon without cheating (even if by reading about that vile acid attack guy at lunchtime, I was gifted a few freebie stations) , even though I have scant knowledge of the London area. It is surprising how many station names are stuck in the back of your mind from previous trips, plus how many can be guessed by thinking of landmarks and London areas and boroughs and even non-league teams that we have signed players from.
 
There lurks on the London Underground network a tube station that wont appear on any tube map, past, present or indeed future. In use on most days, yet no trains ever call there and no passengers ever use it
 
This is in fact a fully fitted out fake tube station built by London Underground on the 3rd floor of an office block in West Kensington and is used to teach new employees what goes where and when. It is slightly surreal to go into a fairly generic office building, then on the third floor, find the entrance to a tube station – complete with fake newspaper stall and wire mesh grills.
 
The tube station is probably the highlight for any visitor and in addition to looking like a tube station, it also behaves a bit like one. When a train is due to arrive, although no physical train appears, the platform rumbles, speakers drown out conversations and there is even a fan in the corner blowing to simulate the wind blast that heralds the arrival of the train.
 
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