Urban75's north - south divide: definitive statistics

[brogdale]

The Metropolitan Line is an Underground line; it is not a tube line.

I'm just saying the TfL map that guided my journey is titled the "Tube Map".

 

[brogdale]

FFS, I am defending that poster.

Was a shit post, though.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Was a shit post, though.

Yes, which is why I liked your post, pointing that out.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

The Metropolitan Line is an Underground line; it is not a tube line.

 

[felixthecat]

I get lost north of the M4 and east of Reading( and that's pushing it)

The rest of the UK is a strange but often wonderful place

 

[WouldBe]

The Metropolitan Line is an Underground line; it is not a tube line.

What's the difference.

 

[PTK]

What's the difference.

Well, the the Metropolitan Line is a "cut and cover line". It was not formed by drilling a tubular hole in the rock. The Victoria Line is an example of tube line.

 

[WouldBe]

Well, the the Metropolitan Line is a "cut and cover line". It was not formed by drilling a tubular hole in the rock. The Victoria Line is an example of tube line.

But both still the underground.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

'the tube' started out as an informal term. It's now used by TFL on their website to refer to the Underground network, including the Metropolitan line (lower-case 'l' for the pedants out there).

We're free to call the Met line the tube if we so wish. Why the hell not?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Well, the the Metropolitan Line is a "cut and cover line". It was not formed by drilling a tubular hole in the rock. The Victoria Line is an example of tube line.

So the District line isn't a tube line either?

I think we can call the whole network 'The Tube' if we so wish. And I reckon most Londoners would.

 

[danny la rouge]

Boring. Let’s get back onto square sausages!

 

[Elpenor]

One that joined almost 6 months before anyone arrived from AVF, if that's what you're thinking.

Don’t remind me about the brigade of bigots and blowhards you’ve brought to the forum

 

[A380]

What's the difference.

Some teuchter esque pedantry about the difference between cut and cover lines and those produced using a tunnelling shield or later a tunnel boring machine. No one has cared about this since 1903.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Don’t remind me about the brigade of bigots and blowhards you’ve brought to the forum

I didn't bring anyone here, you dullard.

 

[neonwilderness]

Boring. Let’s get back onto square sausages!

They are better than tube ones

 

[Elpenor]

Something to do with the district line having a Richmond sausages branch

 

[danny la rouge]

Has anyone here done square sausage in the air fryer?

 

[Monte]

Has anyone here done square sausage in the air fryer?

...with the bathroom door unlocked.

 

[A380]

Boring. Let’s get back onto square sausages!

Is the clockwork orange a tube? And does anyone actually call it the clockwork orange?

 

[existentialist]

You’ve never been at a home game in the Principality Stadium when the locals start banging out Wlad Fy Nhadau then?

Or "Yma O Hyd" whose lyrics, roughly summarised, translate as "Fuck off England" (lovely song, BTW. I envy the Welsh their style of nationalism)

 

[andysays]

Some teuchter esque pedantry about the difference between cut and cover lines and those produced using a tunnelling shield or later a tunnel boring machine. No one has cared about this since 1903.

You'd care about it if you were on a train designed for, eg, the Metropolitan line went the wrong way and ended up on the Jubilee line, because it wouldn't fit in the tunnel...

 

[existentialist]

Tbf That London is basically its own country and therefore can sustain its own North/South divide. Having lived in Hackney I of course was East.

Leafy suburbs, me. Even though we were in south-west Greater London, we still called ourselves "Surrey"

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Leafy suburbs, me. Even though we were in south-west Greater London, we still called ourselves "Surrey"

the post office still regarded several chunks of (1965) Greater London as surrey, kent, essex or (the abolished in 1965) middlesex - technically they still do, although there isn't generally a requirement to include the postal county any more, just the post town, e.g. BROMLEY BR1 1XX and so on.

although the london postal area never matched the 1889 London County Council - chunks of surrounding counties managed to sneak in to the london postal area. the london telephone area was similar, although with different boundaries.

 

[existentialist]

I went to the 'spoons in Hayes (Middx) once and there were more Welsh cask beers on draught than English ones; you're not wrong...things get quite exotic out there very quickly.

Just remember that we keep the good stuff for ourselves. You get Brains, we get Bragdy Mantle (their Moho is a bit of a treat).

 

[existentialist]

Everything beyond Heathrow is the West Country.

TBF, before I came here, my perception was a bit "Cardiff, and a little sliver of land beyond that". Imagine my surprise as I passed Cardiff travelling west (are we still allowed to use that word?), and realised that I still had over a hundred miles to go...

 

[existentialist]

Last time I was in Wales (October), we went to a local shop that advertised baps and before I had processed the words in my head, I asked the young lady, “can you show me your baps”. Then I froze, horrified at what had happened but fortunately she didn’t seem to notice and just whopped her baps out for me to inspect, regardless.

Swansea baps are about twice the size of yer typical bap

 

[A380]

You'd care about it if you were on a train designed for, eg, the Metropolitan line went the wrong way and ended up on the Jubilee line, because it wouldn't fit in the tunnel...

And how many times has that happened in the history of London’s mass transit system? None,that’s how many. I think Gromit could tell us they probably have a system to prevent that; possibly a post it note stuck on the windscreen reminding the driver not to drive down tunnels smaller than the train.

 

[existentialist]

Cornwall is the only place that’s made me pay money so I could leave it. As there’s better coastline elsewhere, they’re welcome to it and I have no plans to return anytime soon.

Wales used to make you pay to come in. But they've scrapped that now. Place is going to the dogs - it'll be M4 to Carmarthen before you know it...

 

[A380]

TBF, before I came here, my perception was a bit "Cardiff, and a little sliver of land beyond that". Imagine my surprise as I passed Cardiff travelling west (are we still allowed to use that word?), and realised that I still had over a hundred miles to go...

But isn’t about 40 miles of that ‘Little England beyond Wales’?

 

[Elpenor]

Cornwall is the only place that’s made me pay money so I could leave it. As there’s better coastline elsewhere, they’re welcome to it and I have no plans to return anytime soon.

Go via the A30 and there’s no toll