...that
Arsenal is the only Underground station to be named after a London football club (it was previously known as Gillespie Road)? Watford and West Ham are both named after the areas they serve.
...that the "
Mind the gap" announcement is played when trains stop at stations with curved platforms to warn passengers of gaps between the platform edge and the doors?
...that the cause of the
Moorgate tube crash in February 1975 was never satisfactorily determined?
...that the original carriages on the
City and South London Railway were nicknamed "padded cells" due to their high backed cushioned seats and very small windows?
...that the first version of the
Underground roundel was introduced in 1908, as a solid red disk and blue bar?
...that Sir
Jacob Epstein's statute Day on the Underground's headquarters at
55 Broadway caused controversy when it was unveiled due to the length of the penis on one of the figures? Epstein later reduced the length.
...that sculptor
Henry Moore's first public commission in 1928-29 was a
relief sculpture West Wind for the Underground's headquarters at
55 Broadway?
...that a stuffed puffer fish, a samurai sword, human skulls, breast implants and a lawnmower are amongst items handed into TfL's lost property office during its 75-year existence?
...that at 44
tons, the locomotives of the
Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
...that the 60 m (197 ft) long escalators at
Angel Underground station are the longest on the system?
...that the longest continuous tunnel on the London Underground is 27.8 km (17.25 miles) long, between
Morden and
East Finchley stations?
...that only 45 per cent of the
London Underground is actually underground?
...that at
Euston Underground station, a passenger changing between the
Victoria line and
Northern line Bank branch will find that trains on adjacent platforms travel in opposite directions even though both are either northbound or southbound?
... that the
Royal Commission on London Traffic proposed constructing 9 miles (14 km) of avenues with railways underneath at the cost of £30 million in 1905?