Privatisation

The Royal Mail was privatised, not the Post Office .

Clas Ohlson

Ten years ago, my local branch of Clas Ohlson was a Woolworths.

The euro

In its first year the euro fell 10% against the pound, from 70p to 63p. An even faster drop was in 2015, when it dropped from 78p to 71p in the first six months.

Metropolitan line extension

I doubt the MLX could have been used as a diversionary route for West Coast Main Line services - the signalling on the MLX would have been to London Underground standards, requiring all trains to have tripcocks fitted (as the Chiltern trains operating through Amersham do, but Pendolinos, Voyagers etc do not). There is also the matter of electrification, not to mention that Marylebone has not got enough capacity.

Annual passenger totals at NR stations

"Non-TfL" stations may be operated by NR TOCs, but the stats for six of them will also be boosted, just as they are for H&I etc, by people changing to or from the Tube, DLR or tram.

Surbiton appears to be the busiest station in London outside Z1 which is not an interchange.

I wonder how much Clapham Junctions stats were reduced because of the Waterloo shutdown and the woes on Southern?

Waterloo's drop was probably also affected by the blockade in summer 2017.

Note that IBM has been open for two-thirds of the current reporting year. IBM's figures dropped by 87.3% last year - the largest drop in the country, and it went from 185th to 44th in the least-used rankings. (51st place to 14th in Scotland) A further 87.3% fall would bring it below 100, and would, on this year's figures, have put it in sixth place. A 95% drop would be needed to take IBM below BSC Redcar's total for 2017/18.

Cross platform interchanges

Cross platform interchanges are usually only available if travelling in one direction eg Victoria Line SB to Piccadilly Line SB at Finsbury Park. VL SB to Picc NB is not so easy so how would you convey all that info in one simple symbol?

Dotted lines on the tube map

A Zone 1 interchange which might have been useful to show is Cannon Street to Bank (W&C) (using the new Walbrook entrance), which is much more convenient than trekking through to Monument.

The currently-popular Lancaster Gate/Paddington walk will be of less use when Crossrail connects Bond Street and Paddington directly.

New Cross/New Cross gate is a useful interchange between Overground services on the Forest Hill line and South Eastern services to Lewisham and beyond, but of course TfL like to pretend the latter don't exist.

Tube map index

When the first stage of Crossrail eventually opens, the two stations that will need to be added to the map should be second, and second from last, in the index.

Pedestrians and cyclists

In a collision between a cyclist and a pedestrian, it is not necessarily the pedestrian who comes off worst.