Jumped on the Elizabeth line at Faringdon on Friday and sat next to a hawk! According to it's handler it's a Harris's hawk and they work for pest control and were on their way home from a morning shift.
Now I’m worried about what actually happened to that chair in the first place.
He dumped a box of kittens who were just a few weeks old and Croydon Animal Samaritans are searching for the mother so she can be reunited with her kittens. Believed to be from Norwood or Pembroke Road area. Any info please let Croydon Animal Samaritans know
I always found the Circle line interesting in how its direction is communicated to passengers since most other cities use ‘clockwise’ or ‘inner circle’. So I made a table keeping track of all the destinations that a train cycles through in a typical Hammersmith-Edgware Road return journey. I also compiled a list of interesting things I have noticed below.
On the shared section with the H&C, TfL seems to minimise references to the Circle line:
Special services don’t follow a clear pattern. I would also appreciate corrections or additions to this section:
There are many attempts to create future Tube maps, even TfL has one created in 2007. With all the unfunded projects, can they be adapted to the current Tube map design?
I based off this map using the regular flavour of Tube map, and squeezed these projects into it.
I removed all wheelchair blobs, as I believe they should belong to a separate map similar to the step-free guide map. This makes the map a tad less busier, without twisting the interchanges to match the wheelchair blobs (see you Bond Street). River services interchanges are going back to icons next to station names similar to National Rail ones, without the connecting blobs to the river banks.
The line colour of the Great Northern inners is lifted from the Rail and Tube services map, while that of West London Orbital was picked after a dialogue with ChatGPT.
How about Crossrail 2 and further metroisation in the south?
The current design can fit in Crossrail 2 as the southwest quadrant is still spacious, and the northern branches can be squeezed between the Weaver Lines, pushing Central Line further to the right. If we are bringing in more "lines" in the south, I think a more radical design is needed.
Software used: Affinity 3.2.2
I built a platform modelled of the deep level stations on the southern end of the Northern Line. This is like Kennington to South Wimbledon.
A few pics taken on a wander on the Elizabeth Line, these were taken at Liverpool Street.
How haven’t you thought about it? Deleting Hinge
A bit of a weird one, not sure if this is the best place to post this but feel like I've got to see if anyone else saw this today 02/07/26 (or anything similar). I was walking to the Victoria line platforms at Kings Cross at roughly 4pm, just before I get there as I'm rounding the corner I hear raised voices and see the woman in front of me flinch in fear. Turning the corner I see a policeman with a much taller, very agitated man in front of him waving what looked to me like a knife in his face. I heard the tall man say 'Are you a silly billy' several times to the policeman, before the policeman simply turns and starts walking away. I ended up looking away as I walked past to avoid catching the agitated man's eye. There were lots of people about when this happened walking to and from the platforms, doing pretty much what I was doing (trying to avoid getting involved). This all happened very quickly and I can't say for sure it was a knife, but it was a sharp object which was being waved in the officers face. Thinking about it afterwards, my interpretation of it was that the agitated man was basically threatening retaliation with the knife if the policeman attempted to arrest him, and the lone policeman chose to walk away rather than risk getting stabbed. Never seen anything remotely like this on the tube before. I grew up in London but have lived in Cornwall for the past 10 years and am just up visiting family for the week. Bit of a rude welcome back to my hometown tbh