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By Greg Stekelman, aged 36

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My presentation at Boring 2011 on my favourite London Underground lines.

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By Greg Stekelman, aged 36

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New geographically accurate maps

Old, lovely maps

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polska-anglia.co.uk

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The Piccadilly line

• 2nd best line• Best colour• Tourist tube• Weeping tuning fork• Shortest gap between stations• Vomit

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Kelly Sotherton

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Wikifeet – the collaborative celebrity-feet website

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The Bakerloo line

• Worst colour line

• Nice and straight

• Baker Street and Waterloo – could be called Waterstreet

• Baker Street has the 10 platforms

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Dermot O’Leary

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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

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No one

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The District Line

• Full of Sloanes

• Has the most stations: 60

• Crosses Thames by bridge

• Home of fictional Walford East station

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Walford East – it’s not a real station

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Jon Ronson

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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

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No votes for the Hammersmith and City Line

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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

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Steve Davis

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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

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Benoit Assou-Ekotto

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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)

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Louis Theroux

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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

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Northern Heights – an impossible dream

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Claudia Winkleman

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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

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Shelley von Strunckel

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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

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James Ward

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The end?