boring tube line presentation by greg stekelman
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My presentation at Boring 2011 on my favourite London Underground lines.TRANSCRIPT
By Greg Stekelman, aged 36
New geographically accurate maps
Old, lovely maps
polska-anglia.co.uk
The Piccadilly line
• 2nd best line• Best colour• Tourist tube• Weeping tuning fork• Shortest gap between stations• Vomit
Kelly Sotherton
Wikifeet – the collaborative celebrity-feet website
The Bakerloo line
• Worst colour line
• Nice and straight
• Baker Street and Waterloo – could be called Waterstreet
• Baker Street has the 10 platforms
Dermot O’Leary
The Circle line
• Most hated line• Can’t find proper map of it• No longer a circle• Terrible student parties• Once stuck between Moorgate and Barbican for 25
minutes
No one
The District Line
• Full of Sloanes
• Has the most stations: 60
• Crosses Thames by bridge
• Home of fictional Walford East station
Walford East – it’s not a real station
Jon Ronson
The Hammersmith and City Line
• Salmon Pink Colour
• It’s no ones favourite line
• I lost my virginity in a flat near Royal Oak, overlooking the train line
No votes for the Hammersmith and City Line
The Central Line
• Lovely red colour
• The fastest line (speeds up to 62mph)
• Longest uninterrupted journey from West Ruislip to Epping (54.9 km)
• Once saw Nigel Lawson at Lancaster Gate
Steve Davis
The Jubilee Line
• Opened in 1979
• Stratford has the shortest escalator
• Was to be named The Fleet Line
• I don’t like the special door opening bits, even though they do stop suicides
Benoit Assou-Ekotto
The Metropolitan Line
• World’s oldest underground railway• Only 9 stations below ground• Not really London• Fast and semi-fast trains• Longest gap between any two stations
(6.3km between Chesam and Chalfont & Latimer)
Louis Theroux
The Northern Line
• Sexy black colour• The “Misery Line”• Longest tunnel (Morden to East Finchley
27.8 kilometres)• Most passengers (206 million per year)• Northern Heights extended proposal
Northern Heights – an impossible dream
Claudia Winkleman
The Victoria Line
• Clearly the best line• Finsbury Park to Oxford Circus in 12 mins• Opened in 1968• A train every two minutes• The lights once failed on me between
Finsbury Park and Highbury and Islington
Shelley von Strunckel
The Waterloo and City Line
• Only two stations, Waterloo and Bank
• Nicknamed “the Drain”
• I’ve never used it
• Closed on Sundays
• Looks a bit rubbish
James Ward
The end?