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Facts that aren't on the web

I am proud to announce that I seem to have found a fact that's not already somewhere on the Web. I have at least found a fact that can't be found through Google, unless I got my search terms wrong.

So, in celebration of this, I'm prepared to reveal this brand new fact, the first for years, exclusively right here on this page.

And that fact is.. (drum roll)

In episode 4 of the first series of the BBC's television adaptation of The Tripods by John Christopher (also on DVD), the sequence where the three fugitives explore an abandoned Paris Metro station is shot on the down platform at Bank station on the Waterloo and City Line, now part of London Underground but at the time still part of British Rail. More on the Waterloo & City Line here, here and here. The line has long been a popular location for filiming as it is closed on Sundays.

Free bonus facts - the station has been dressed to look like Porte de la Chapelle station, where Metro line 12 terminates. The train in the platform is the old W&C rolling stock, built in 1940 (and which lasted in service until the early nineties).

There. I believe that's the last fact needed to make the Web complete. Everyone can stop writing now.

Posted by mpk at August 23, 2004 8:29 PM | TrackBack