Only true londoners will ace this ridiculously hard london. Scroll down to take the test and then check your answer at the bottom of the story. Sign up to free email alerts from mylondon london underground news. This list includes all stations on the london underground and docklands light railway. Our comprehensive quiz will help you figure out how. For live departures, status information, route maps and timetables. The answers of these clues are either london underground stations or docklands light railway stations, depending on which heading theyre under. Post your answers in this thread and see how long it takes us to get all the answers letter to the corinthians longest reign anybody for tennis seven husbands for. Many of londons most famous icons are inspired by transport and we have a fantastic selection of publications that tells their story. Tube expert geoff marshall has released a new book, packed with fresh trivia on the london underground. Opened in 1979, which is the newest line on the london underground network. Can you find the tube stops hidden in this picture puzzle. The book not only includes all eleven underground lines, but also every type of passenger stock currently in use on the system and much more.
Welcome to esl printables, the website where english language teachers exchange resources. There are 100 answers to find this time feel free to use the comments as a guessing ground. This small piece of kit is designed to make building your quiz, crossword or puzzle question more effective. Even though it is called the underground about half of it is above the ground. Each of the following is a cryptic clue for a station. London underground is encyclopedic a complete list of stations including disused ones is helpful available online from. Quizmoz offers one of the internets largest collection of quizzes for you to tease your brain and pit your wits against the experienced quizmoz quiz masters. London underground tube diary going undergrounds blog. Under the streets of london theres a place most people could never. Are you looking for books about londons transport history, architecture or design. Little common library a london underground station quiz.
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Many of london s most famous icons are inspired by transport and we have a fantastic selection of publications that tells their story. London authoritys transport duty and following the directions of the mayor of london. From 20062007 over 1 billion passengers used the underground. London underground cryptic quiz the full list showing 1 9 of 9 messages.
Test your knowledge of london tube stations with this tricky emoji quiz. Most londoners take pride in how well they know the citys transport network. In all honesty i cant think of a destructive reason i realise that im going to be treading on thin ice by drawing the comparison with nr but given the plethora of far more sensitive nr documents that are now freely and deliberately in the public domain via the railway group standards online i cannot understand your reply, by comparison tfl is a much smaller and parochial organisation. Test your brain and knowledge of the london underground by solving the cryptic clues to work out the name of the tube stations. Prove youre a london underground expert, score 1720 on. There are 9 london underground stations in the cryptic clues above the first member to get all 9 right will receive a 2 head frag of mohawks as a prize so get your london underground map out and have a go when you post your answers please number 1 9 and i will only tell you how many you have right. Its first section opened in 1863, making it the oldest underground metro. The tube is the smelly, dirty but incredibly useful heart of london. Piccadilly line cab view cockfosters to hatton cross. Go ahead and find out what you know about yourself and the world around you. The tube is a slang name for the london underground, because the tunnels for some of the lines are round tubes running through the ground.
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Youll know some questions easily, youll think you know some question, and youll know you dont know others. The underground quiz is a quiz based on the london underground stations. Harry potter and the philosophers stone chapter 1 quiz. Its first section opened in 1863, making it the oldest underground metro system in the world although in fact approximately 55% of the current network is above ground, as it generally runs on the surface in outlying suburbs.
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