Portal:London transport/DYK randomiser

• ...that Blackfriars Underground station (opened 1870) pre-dates the main line station by sixteen years?

• ...that the first railway terminus in London was Spa Road station in Bermondsey, opened by the London and Greenwich Railway on 8 February 1836?

• ...that the River Thames froze 24 times between 1400 and 1814 and that Frost Fairs were often held on the ice?

• ...that a stuffed puffer fish, a samurai sword, human skulls, breast implants and a lawnmower are amongst items handed into TfL's lost property office during its 75-year existence?

• ... that an atmospheric railway once ran between Forest Hill and West Croydon?

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