How well do you know the London Underground?

Try our ridiculously tricky Tube quiz that even seasoned commuters won't know all the answers to!

1. Which former Tube station was the cipher for a code worked out by James Bond in the film Skyfall?

2. Which former West London Tube station once had a special bay platform used for delivering milk?

3. Which Tube station had the narrowest platforms on the Tube before it was redesigned in the 1990s?

4. What was the name of the man who was supposedly the first to try out the escalators at Earl's Court when they first opened in 1923?

5. Which lost Tube line was opened in Buckinghamshire to transport goods from the Duke of Buckingham's country estate to the mainline to London?

6. Which Tube station served as Winston Churchill's underground hideout in World War II?

7. At which former Tube station was Queen Victoria almost assassinated by a gunman?

8. Which abandoned Tube station was once the furthest station outside London on the Metropolitan line?

9. Which former Tube station later became a hot tub cinema?

10. Which town once had a planned Tube line that would have taken you right to the beach?

11. What was the name of London's first ever deep Tube railway?

12. What kind of worm first inspired engineers to consider tunnelling railways underground?

13. What year did the last steam trains officially run on the Tube?

14. Which Tube line has been nicknamed The Drain?

15. Which station has the deepest platforms below sea level of any on the Tube network?

16. Which abandoned Tube station is now The Wellesley hotel?

17. Which former Tube station is now a second hand book shop?

18. Which Tube station is supposedly haunted by a female ghost who was a former patient at the Bethlem mental health hospital in the 1700s?

19. Which former Tube station was built right next to Westfield White City?

20. Which former Tube station is apparently haunted by an Egyptian princess?

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