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[email protected] · October 7th 13, 11:35 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

On 07/10/2013 18:09, Arthur Figgis wrote:

A friend who has lived all her life in Haringey(?) and the City once
phoned me to come and meet her at Wimbledon, where the District Line
runs out before the place she needed to get to.

Ouch!

Piccadilly (from Manor House / Turnpike Ln) to Finsbury Park, Vic
line to Vauxhall, strange foreign zug to Wimbledon would have been
the best way to get that far, but one can of course come up with a
variety of suggestions to get further into terra (terror?) incognita,
inc via the strange trains from Victoria or keeping it simpler via a
change to Thameslink at KXSP.

You know all this and much much more of course Mr F, just taking
advantage of the opportunity to stretch my braincell.

The TfL Journey planner agrees with you too. 44 minutes from Turnpike Lane.

The dilemma of how best to present such information is just that, to
concur with Paul's earlier ponderings. I'm not sure what would be
best, but what exists at the moment isn't it (the "London_s Rail &
Tube services" map - the combo-effort of TfL and ATOC and successor
to the London Connections map and TfL's separate variation thereof -
rather looks like and awkward graft on of suburban rail services onto
the familiar Tube map).

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Colin Rosenstiel