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My good friend Andrew did the Zone 1 Challenge on Friday. Basically the idea is to visit all Zone 1 London Underground stations in the quickest possible time. Unsurprisingly, because he's a genious at memorising maps and transport facts, he and his team came first in the competition.
Having done the Alphabet Alochol Challenge twice, I'm really disappointed that I'm ill.. I'd loved to have joined him for it.
Anyway, I felt that with all the recent depressing posting I've made regarding being ill, some interesting facts that make you think "Wow" might be in order.
Did you know that:
Having done the Alphabet Alochol Challenge twice, I'm really disappointed that I'm ill.. I'd loved to have joined him for it.
Anyway, I felt that with all the recent depressing posting I've made regarding being ill, some interesting facts that make you think "Wow" might be in order.
Did you know that:
- All the escalators on the Underground (409 of them) do the equivalent of two round the world trips every week!
- Angel station has Eastern Europes longest escalator at 318 steps.
- Green grapes cause more accidents on the Tube than banana skins.
- Mosquitoes that live in the underground have evolved into a completely different species, one that appears separated from the above ground mozzie by over a thousand years.
- Only one person was ever born in a tube carriage and her name is Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor - check out her initials. She was born in 1924 on a Bakerloo line train at Elephant & Castle.
- The most popular chocolate bar sold in Underground vending machines is Cadbury's Whole Nut.
- The peak hour for tube suicides is 11am.
- And rather intelligently you can regularly find pidgeons travelling from West Ham in east London to central London on the tube in order to get more food.
Actually it had sod all to do with me, and more to do with the 2 people who invited me along with them (Ric [the current Z1 record holder] and David), who knew what they were doing and persueded me to run a lot (I still ache) although most of the time it was them running ahead, holding the doors open, or wrenching them apart when they were determined to close, and waiting for me to puff and pant my way to catch up.
by Matt at 10:19 on 30th May 2006
You still took part and your team still won. And now you have spied on their skills, next year us AAC veterans will beat them! :D
by Neil at 09:56 on 04th Jun 2006
Matt are you sure that Angel station is in Eastern Europe?
by James at 14:42 on 15th Jun 2006
Those were good times, just looked back at the pics, I wanna do it again!
I still wear my I've Met Matt Chapman T shirt by the way, it's always a good conversation piece :D