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Post by Chris W on May 3, 2020 17:09:30 GMT
The question in this afternoon's edition on ITV was... The First 10 Central London Tube Stations With 'PARK' In Their Name...
What are the answers.... and N O C H E A T I N G...
I will share the answers tomorrow [Monday 4th May] evening...
Off you go...
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Post by Chris M on May 3, 2020 17:35:25 GMT
Do you mean first alphabetically? and does "Central London" mean just Zone 1?
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 3, 2020 17:49:05 GMT
Do you mean first alphabetically? and does "Central London" mean just Zone 1? I don't think there are as many as ten in Zone 1 (I can only think of four}.
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Post by gantshill on May 3, 2020 18:13:07 GMT
I could only think of four in the middle as well. (2 on the pic, 1 on the bakerloo and one near 55 Broadway)
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Post by goldenarrow on May 3, 2020 18:33:52 GMT
Just to clarify what Chris W said above, the question read: “In an alphabetical list of the London Underground stations in Zones 1 and 2, we are looking first ten that include the word park.” “We are specifically looking for stations on the London Underground network, so no DLR, Overground, or Mainline stations unless they are also served by London Underground.” “We are also only looking for stations located Zones 1 or 2 as they appear on the TfL Tube Map. This is as of April 2019.” Trying not to look smug at this point 😊
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Post by Chris W on May 4, 2020 19:20:39 GMT
As promised, the answers were/are:
1. Belsize Park 2. Finsbury Park 3. Green Park 4. Holland Park 5. Hyde Park Cormer 6. Kilburn Park 7. Queen's Park 8. Ravenscourt Park 9. Regent's Park 10. St. James's Park
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Post by londoner on May 4, 2020 23:17:17 GMT
Only got 5 .
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 5, 2020 5:19:08 GMT
As promised, the answers were/are: 1. Belsize Park 2. Finsbury Park 3. Green Park 4. Holland Park 5. Hyde Park Cormer 6. Kilburn Park 7. Queen's Park 8. Ravenscourt Park 9. Regent's Park 10. St. James's Park
Westbourne Park being the eleventh and last alphabetically, I believe. (But the first chronologically)
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Post by xplaistow on May 5, 2020 10:56:09 GMT
There are actually 12 in total. Tufnell Park is the 11th alphabetically.
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 5, 2020 11:15:55 GMT
There are actually 12 in total. Tufnell Park is the 11th alphabetically. So it is. I'd overlooked Holland Park both when working out the answer and when reading the right one!
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Post by class411 on May 5, 2020 11:50:59 GMT
I presume that 'no cheating' means you cannot look at a map or list. (I know that might sound obvious, but the last two name challenges involved staring at maps and list for ages.) Anyway, on the no cheating basis, I'd have got as far as 1, because I didn't realise that Finsbury Park was in zone 2 .
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Post by Chris M on May 5, 2020 12:28:41 GMT
I identified many Park stations but most of them were not in Z1-2 and/or not on LU. I didn't even make 1 as I missed both Belsize and Finsbury - not very good. My complete list (21 of the 36 Park stations).
(Beckton Park) (Brondesbury Park) (Canons Park) (Chiswick Park) (Elm Park) Green Park (Highams Park) Holland Park Hyde Park Corner (Langdon Park) (Moor Park) (Newbury Park) (Park Royal) Queen's Park Ravenscourt Park Regents Park St James's Park (Tufnell Park) (Wembley Park) Westbourne Park (Wimbledon Park)
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