- ...that London Heathrow Airport is the world's busiest airport in terms of international passenger traffic?
- ...that there has been five stations named Shepherd's Bush, three called Wood Lane and two titled White City?
- ...that the shortest distance between two stations on the London Underground is 250 metres (0.16 miles), between Leicester Square and Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line?
- ...that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
- ... that the Queen and Prince Charles each travelled on London Underground trains from Green Park tube station when they carried out the official openings of the Victoria and Jubilee lines?