Date the Tube Map quiz plus Metro Competition

The answers are.......

There are only two correct answers in the "Date the Tube Map" quiz



Many of you were in the right ball park with early 1930's making it one of the last pre-Beck maps, but the correct answer was 1932. Take a look at Clive's site which has most of the variants of London Undeground maps dating back to 1889.

In terms of the current names of the lines in the Edwardian Tube map here - between all of you, you guessed most of them:

Central London Railway is today's Central Line
City and South London is part of today's the Northern Line via Bank
Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton is the Piccadilly Line
Great Northern and City is the WAGN line or Northern City (which isn't part of the London Underground any more)
Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead is the Northern Line via Charing Cross
Baker Street and Waterloo is the Bakerloo Line
and of course the Waterloo & City is now the Waterloo & City Line which was too easy to guess.

Anyway, the two people who guessed 1932 are Jamesthegill and Rich, Neil did his paperclip selection, or tossed a coin, and the winner is Rich. As promised, Rich will receive a copy of Train and Transport - A Collector's Guide, kindly donated by Graham O'Mara.

BTW speaking of the Tube map, the London Underground Map came second to Concorde in the Great British Design Quest to find the best British Design Icon. According to Transport for London over 200,000 votes were cast.

BTW 2 - Metro have a fiendishly difficult competition today where you can win a copy of Mr Beck's Underground Map by Ken Garland and Underground Maps after Beck by Max Roberts (who's been commenting on this blog of late). To win you need to answer "How many copies of the London Underground map are distributed each year?" and email your answer with your name and telephone number to metrocompetitions@tfl.gov.uk by 5pm tonight. The answer is on a link somewhere in this post. The winner will be picked at random from all of the correct entries. Good luck!

London Underground Fashion Victims

Fashion Victims on the Tube

Here's this Friday's weekly look at commuters spotted on the London Underground who are to quote Louis Walsh of X Factor "taking a style and making it their own", or are slaves to a current trend regardless or whether or not it looks good on them.

St Patrick's Day Shenanigans

Speaking of Louis Walsh, last Sunday was the official London celebrations of St Patrick's Day - even though it is actually St Patrick's Day today. There seemed to be a trend of wearing large hats. Some with shamrocks:





Some with a Guinness Theme with a shamrock shape just to rub it in


However my favourite was this girl with very low slung jeans with an Irish flag wrapped round her


Bird Flu Hat

One from South West Trains, but this woman clearly had something against our feathered friends or perhaps it was some strange way of trying to ward off bird flu


Twiggy Trousers and Fishnets

I'm not really sure if these were Twiggy Trousers or Twiggy Shorts (the cropped trouser worn by Twiggy in the M&S campaign which revived the ailing store's sales), either way regular readers know my opinions on fishnet tights and when worn with Twiggy Trousers, or Shorts, I personally don't think it's a great look


21st Century Girl

It's the metallic bags AGAIN, but she had a nice 21st century twist with them here as she was scribbling away on her palm pilot electronic notebook thingy


I quite like the way the bag strap round her wrist looks like a handcuff!

Platform UGGs

The week wouldn't be complete without seeing someone in some UGG boots or pretend UGG boots. These ones were particularly err....attractive with a platform!



That's it for this week. The previous entry for London Underground fashion victims is here and all of them together can be seen on the following Flickr set.