tubechallenge.com

Ahh thanks

That website looks like it hasn't been updated in ten years Repeating background image, Comic Sans font, thick blue borders around the images... but apparently it was updated in 2008! Crikey. All that's missing is a scrolling banner at the top saying "WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE".

These things bug me

The station was Kensington Olympia, a long time ago.

Those who got it right:
tubeguru
Lancaster Gate
scrxisi
Edgemaster
barrykas
Sam
greatkingrat
mps247
jbom
palkanetoijala31

Those who didn't:
Starkey7 (Glasgow Queen Street)

* Edgemaster nominates Starkey for the "most out-of-london answer to the tube quiz of the year" award

remind me later on in year edgemaster! im surprised i got this right

Edgemaster wrote:* Edgemaster nominates Starkey for the "most out-of-london answer to the tube quiz of the year" award

* Richie G seconds this nomination

(althuogh before this TGs Birmingham New Street in response to my Where Am I? quiz has to come second so far...)

Don't forget uefacup81 with Berlin Hauptbahnhof in the Paving Slab quiz #2

I believe we've had two quizzes where the correct answer has been in Berlin, a bonus round in Caifornia, and a special in Milan.

I'm sure there's a semaphore on the end of that bay platform at Greenford Station?

Or I think there was a couple of years ago, anyway.

When did Olympia have five flaming platforms?!

As recently as 1980.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stat ... dex2.shtml has some interesting pictures of Olympia through the years.

jonny wrote:I'm sure there's a semaphore on the end of that bay platform at Greenford Station?

Or I think there was a couple of years ago, anyway.

The starting signal at Greenford for FGW trains is a semaphore still.

Starkey7 wrote:When did Olympia have five flaming platforms?!

If you stand on the Hammersmith Road bridge and look at the station you will see a disconnected piece of track on the right which runs towards part of the old platform face. The other platform that side has now become the row of flats you see there.

Of further note, if you stand on the northbound platform you can see the original southbound platform face beyond the current southbound platform and the space where the fourth track (which served that platform, since removed). The current southbound platform stands on this very space where the fourth track used to be, and what used to be the southbound "through road" is now used to serve the current southbound platform.