The London Underground Awards

1 Conversation


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
NOTE: This article isn't really intended to ever be in the guide, since it doesn't really
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
1They aren't even the oldest trains - Metropolitan and East London line trains are

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.

Bookmark on your Personal Space


Conversations About This Entry

Entry

A627617

Infinite Improbability Drive

Infinite Improbability Drive

Read a random Edited Entry


Written and Edited by

References

h2g2 Entries

Disclaimer

h2g2 is created by h2g2's users, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the Not Panicking Ltd. Unlike Edited Entries, Entries have not been checked by an Editor. If you consider any Entry to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please register a complaint. For any other comments, please visit the Feedback page.

Write an Entry

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."

Write an entry
Read more