Cornish ferries

The Falmouth - St Mawes (and St Mawes - Place) are ordinary boats, for foot passengers only. The chain ferry is the King Harry vehicle ferry, further upstream, between Philleigh and Trelissick.

Mobile numbers

From some time in 1997/98 all newly-issued mobile numbers started with 07, although some existing numbers remained in other blocks and were migrated later. (My 0402 number issued in 1996 became an 07702 number).

Stilton

"Stilton" cheese can be made in Melton Mowbray, but not in Stilton itself.

Strand underpass

The Strand underpass has a 12'6" height restriction

Freedom Passes

Freedom passes validity has to meet the minimum requirements of the English National Concessionary Pass scheme. This means it has to be valid on all buses in England between 0930 and 2300 on working days, and all day at weekends. That is the only legal requirement.

In particular, passes issued to residents of Slough, Maidenhead and Reading will not be valid on the TfL-Cross-Liz services passing through their area.

May 2018 tube map

HEx is simply a non-stop service over the same line as Heathrow Connect/TfL Rail/Crossrail/whatever.

The legend next to the dagger at Heathrow is pointless - since T23 and T5 are both in Zone 6, onward connections to T5 would be at no extra charge even if the Freezone didn't exist.

Might as well have a dagger at Finchley Central: "Underground passengers should change at Finchley Central for free rail transfer to Mill Hill East"

More lowest bus numbers

The 105 is the lowest-numbered bus route to serve an airport, (LHR or LCY) and also the lowest-numbered bus to use a tunnel - 105.

The 108 uses the lowest tunnel.

The 20 is the lowest-numbered route to have never been operated by Routemasters (of either kind)

The 81 is currently the lowest-numbered route to serve a non-Oyster-enabled station (Slough), but this will become 117 (Ashford and Staines) when Slough becomes TfL-X-Liz.

Lowest bus numbers

No 5 is the lowest not to go south of the river.
No 37 is the lowest not to go north of it.

Twenty station

Twenty Station closed in 1959

Megabus Europe

Megabus Europe (now passed to Flixbus) only ever operated in the UK and the European mainland - not Ireland or Cyprus. The "1 euro" bus was more likely to have been on one of their cross-channel services.

Duck Tours

All nine of the Duck Tours vehicles were named after female Shakespearean characters. Sadly the services have been suspended since September as the slipway has been requisitioned for work on the Thames tideway tunnel.

The tilt test

The double decker bus tilt test is done with the worst-case arrangement - empty bottom deck and a full top deck (using sandbags rather than people). The absence of a roof will help slightly. The minimum to pass the test is 28 degrees for the chassis - the body will tilt a bit further because of the suspension.