5 made up facts about London Underground

🚇 Dive into the quirky and fictional world of the London Underground with these 5 totally made-up facts! 😂

Number 5: Cockfosters station is the Underground's ultimate prank! Created purely for laughs, this non-existent station is a genius PR move that has tourists chuckling every time they hear it. 🤣

Number 4: Angel Station, once known as Islington High Street Station, got a spooky makeover in 1968. Legend has it, a winged ghost made regular appearances on the platform at 8:15 every evening, leading to the station's rebranding.

Number 3: Uncover the mystery of the abandoned Abbey Road Studios station between Finchley Road and Baker Street. Trains no longer stop here because eager tourists, aiming for that perfect entrance photo, blocked the way. 📸

Number 2: Grab a free tube ride by sporting our exclusive metro hoodies with the Underground carriage print. Just don't try it with a New York Subway hoodie – rumor has it your Oyster card will be charged double! 😱

And now, the moment you've been waiting for...

Number 1: Absolut shakes up the tube map! Did you know Absolut pays a whopping 12 million pounds annually to feature their bottle smack in the center of the London Underground map? Now that's some high-profile advertising! 🍸

But wait, we want to hear YOUR made-up fact in the comments! The best one gets pinned – let the creativity flow! 🎉
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[ulazygit]

Londoners love it when foreigners refer to the underground as a Metro.

[k-nda]

Fact: make sure to stand in the middle of the escalator to have discount on your trip

[Douglas_C]

Bond Street is called that because humans used to bond with each other there

[LOLE_Editz]

If stay on the circle line for too long you get dizzy

[bakmanplays]

Fact: you can use your Oyster cards to pay for food in restaurants

[Zkkr]

Waterloo was so called because it was the location of the first flushing toilet.

[Snorlax-cuddles]

Fact. The Northern line enjoys a nice temperant atmosphere especially during summer

[MatthewTijou]

The Elizabeth line goes all the way to a secret station underneath the Empire State Building

[JamesLyndon-ti]

During the olympics, we installed these things called ticket barriers, but they are really just hurdles, so have a go!

[DanielKat]

Here is a fact! The longest distance between 2 stations is on the Piccadilly Line from Leicester Square to Covent Garden
Another one is that the Waterloo and City line is always in the sunlight o-o
All of the lines go Underground 100% of the time hence its name :D

[SCRfan-ffnw]

Fun fact! The bus route 221 has a secret buffet if you open the secret hatch under the floor but no one knows about it except me, Spider-Man and you!

[train-king]

Fact: if you jump on the train tracts and get hit by a tube you won’t die instead you will teleport back home and get 1 billion pounds

[_my_cute_and_sweet_channel]

If You Pay in INR(₹) in London Underground You will get Free Home near your Office.

[TrainManFrever]

Actually, there is an abandoned station between Finchley Road and Baker Street, its called Marlborough Road, it was opened in 1870 and closed in 1934 due to a fire

[AngeloNicolas-vi]

Baker street did not exist until the was a bakery there

[markbole]

Oyster card was named after the Anglo Saxon tradition of paying boatmen with oysters to cross the Thames

[martonnagy]

You have to pay a 50£ fine if you dont mind the gap

[MagdalenaKmiecik-ib]

There was a fire alarm at Bond Street.Ttthhaaatt

[nicolasm]

Made up fact: There was a station between Holborn and Leicester Square called Chinatown

[gegamertv]

Fact: there used to be zone 0, consistently made out of 7 statios, which are: green park, charing cross, oxford circuit, piccadilly circus, bond street, Tottenham court road and Leicester square, the zone inteduced in 1969 and removed in 1998 because the fare zone was too high for going out fron the zone