Talk:Oakwood tube station

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[edit] Highest station claim

The trivia stating that Oakwood is the highest station on the Piccadilly line is incorrect. Google Earth shows Cockfosters Station to be at 100m above sea level. DavidUri 12:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure where Google Earth gets its altitutde data, but a check at the Ordnance Survey's Get-a-map site shows that Cockfosters station is between the 95m and 100m contour lines so the Trivia statement is clearly wrong. The statement was originally added on 2 May 2006 by User:IsarSteve and I have queried the source and the odd statement about the Urals mountain on his talkpage. --DavidCane 15:47, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

The information has two sources.. I personally remember seeing the bronze plaque in the 1970s & the details also appear in the Piccadilly Line Managements (East Area) 1993 publication: Piccadilly Line Extension The Diamond Anniversary. It may not be the highest point on the Piccadilly Line, but in 1933 London Transport thought it was!!! --IsarSteve 07:12, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Both a strange statement to want to commemorate on a plaque and odd that they would apparently get it wrong. I wonder what promoted the decision to erect the plaque - perhaps a visit from a Soviet delegation to see the new extension. --DavidCane 00:44, 24 August 2007 (UTC)