"Patrick":
Apart from station names in Hindi in Southall and Ealing, LU ...
assumes everybody speaks English.

That's Punjabi at Southall, if it still looks like this:
http://users.chello.be/cr41864/travel/colchester/southal00.jpg
And it's not an LU station anyway. Ealing I don't know about.

On the other hand, I learned the German word for "baggage" from the
doorways of Piccadilly Line trains.
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Toronto | This problem gives new meaning to "going out on
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