The London Underground Awards
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
At last, it's the awards that everybody has been waiting for! The inaugural and final London Underground 'Every Line Wins a Prize' Awards! (Affectionately known as 'The Tubies')
So here are the winners:
- The Line With The Cruddiest Trains:
the District Line.
1 - The Line With The Cruddiest Stations:
Central Line. - The Line With The Lamest Excuses For Delays:
Jubilee Line.
2 - Noisiest Line:
the Bakerloo Line. - Scariest Line:
the Victoria Line. - The Line That Is Least Likely To Be Running At All:
Circle Line. - The Line That Has Stations Every Five Feet:
the DLR.3 - By Far, The Most Confusing Line Of All:
Northern Line. - The Least Metropolitan Line On The Network:
Metropolitan Line. - The Line That Is Least Likely To Get You To Hammersmith:
Hammersmith and City Line. - The Line Where Trains Terminate at Seemingly Random Destinations:
The Piccadilly Line. - The Most Pointless Train Line Anywhere In The World:
Waterloo and City Line.
4 - The Line That Won't Take You Anywhere You Want To Go:
East London Line. - The Line That Keeps Sneaking Onto The Tube Map:
Silverlink North London Line.
Special Incompetence Awards go to:
- The escalators at Bond Street, King's Cross and Marble Arch.
- The lifts at Queensway.
- The track between Wimbledon and Parson's Green.
- Any track that has been repaired in the last month
contain any actual facts. It's basically my excuse to rant. If anybody who has ridden on The
Tube actually finds this article (how?) and disagrees with it, or has their own list of
awards, I would love to read about it - so start a discussion thread.
For a real article about the London Underground, try this one
even older, but have been refurbished.2If the signals fail so often, why haven't they fixed them by now?3Does this count as a Tube line?4But I might be biased against it because I live in West London.