Abi Collins’s Reviews > Tube Trivia > Status Update

First female tube train driver in 1978 bloody hell

Oooh - the District Railway in east London issued posters and handbills in Yiddish in 1907!

‘It was never the intention that this branch of the Northern should come to an end at Mill Hill East, but instead carry on to Mill Hill and Edgware over an existing alignment.’

You’re telling me I could have had a tube station near me???? 😭

‘Most commonly lost items are mobile phones; the strangest including a park bench, samurai swords, a lawnmower, worn underwear, false teeth, a grandfather clock, a stuffed fox, breast implants and prosthetic limbs.’

Who brings a lawnmower on the tube and then FORGETS IT?? 😭

‘A number of creature comforts were provided to make the life of shelterers more amenable. Snacks and hot drinks, delivered by special tube trains, were served nightly, and at some stations there were even libraries, recorded music played on gramophones provided by American charities and live entertainment.’

Tearing up over these shelterers in WWII

The fact that you can earn a living with £150 a day from busking at tube stations is insane

Oooh Angel has the longest escalators - I’ll have to visit!