Find Your Station

People in certain groups are placed together in the same area, or on the same line.

Starting from the centre, then the north-west going clockwise, here are the groups represented on the map.

• Imperial Chemistry - Centre. The majority of stations in the centre are my coursemates when I studied Chemistry at Imperial from 2012 to 2015.

• Imperial Afro-Caribbean Society - North-West (Underground Lines 2, 7, 8, 9, and 15, Overground Lines H and K). Stations are named after the people I had met whilst a member of Imperial's Afro-Caribbean Society. I helped take part in their brilliant yearly Afrogala performance in 2014.

• London Underground Production Services - North-West (Underground Lines 11 and 15, Overground Lines H and K). Stations are named after people who have worked in the Production Services team of London Underground. They help to produce and distribute the timetables, along with sorting out signalling data for the Underground. 

• London Storm Dodgeball - North-West (Underground Lines 13, Overground Lines K and L). I have since joined a dodgeball club (which I long intended to) - London Storm. However now the map is so full that there are no large areas where I could put a 'Storm' section. I re-met one Storm player who I previously played with at Imperial, so naturally the Storm section has to go next to the old Imperial section. I intend to make this a general dodgeball section now. Some stations have now started to appear and more will surely fill up - and a lot of stations will move - primarily stations not named after people, and a few stations on line 7 (people who I met once and quickly gave stations to - they will likely become tram stops instead). Storm Dodgeball players will find themselves primarily scattered around in the North-West.

• Imperial Dodgeball Society - North (Underground Lines 2, 3, 10 15 and 16, Crossrail Line B, Overground Lines H and L). Stations are named after people who I played dodgeball with whilst at Imperial. I wasn't all to great though, especially at catching the ball. However the dodgeball club were a lot more willing to go out and party unlike my more familiar baseball club, who almost every time, just ended up at Eastside bar. BORING! I'd love to get back into dodgeball again. Have done, see above!

• London Mets Baseball - North-East (Underground Lines 3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 16, Crossrail Lines D and E, Overground Line L, TLR). Stations are named after people who I play baseball with as part of the London Mets baseball club. Most of the people in this section here, I have played with as teammates. I have a small section in the South for people in the higher levels of the club.

• London Raiders Softball (Old Section) - North-East (Underground Line 8,  Overground Line L, TLR). This small section would have been the original zone for the London Raiders - unfortunately it proved far too small! I have kept the stations there so some Raiders will find that they have two stations on the map (which will definitely be kept no matter what).

• Corsica Family/Friends|La famille et les amis en Corse - North East|Nord-Est (Underground Lines 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 15, Crossrail Line A, Overground Lines K and L, TLR). Stations here are all my friends in Corsica who I have met over the years - along with family members.|Les stations dans cette zone sont pour mes amis en Corse que j'ai rencontré, aussi inclus sont quelques membres de ma famille.

• London Raiders Softball and Other Softballers - East and South-East (Underground Lines 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17 and 18, Crossrail Line F, Overground Lines G, J, L, M, R, TLR, Tramways T2, T7 and T10, People Mover). Stations here are primarily named after the London Raiders, though there are stations and tram stops dotted around for other people I have met whilst playing softball. I am hoping to play for one of the top teams in the Raiders this year, representing the best of the club. Raiders is a huge club with plenty of members and many joining and leaving, so the south east side of the map, previously almost completely empty, is choc-a-bloc now with Raiders! A few stations will move around as people move in and out of the club, but the confirmed Underground and Overground stations are well established members who have been playing for years.

• Tower Transit - South-East (Underground Line 18, Crossrail Lines E and F, Overground Lines J, M and S, Tramways T1, T2, T3, T5 and T7). Stations here are named for people I met in my two years of working at Tower Transit, creating bus timetables for the bus routes they operate. Tower Transit was my first job after graduation and a great way to get into a career in transport. The extremely friendly office I worked in was such a fun time (I am still close with all of them - I know I sometimes miss the drinks at the pub but it's only because they come at a time when work gets super busy, I promise!) I helped Tower Transit to win the contract to operate Route D8, and my 488 timetable survives 4 years later - I tell you I was born to timetable transport.

• Family in France|Famille Français - South|Sud (Underground Lines 4 and 18, Crossrail Line C, Overground Lines P and T, Tramways T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5). Stations here are named for people on my mum's side of the family|Les stations dans cette zone sont pour les membres de la famille du côte de ma mère. 

• Family in USA - South-West (Underground Lines 14 and 18, Crossrail Line C, Overground Line M). A small number of stations are for family and friends who live in the USA.

• Old Owenians - South-West (Underground Lines 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 and 18, Crossrail Lines B and D, Overground Lines J, M and P, Tramways T6 and T8). Stations here are named for people who were in my year at DAOS. You are on the map if you are in one of two categories - good friends throughout my time at school, at any time from Year 7 to 13. Otherwise, you may be on the map I have met you numerous times after school. I was quite selective with which old Owenians got a station on the map - everyone will be included in my future DAOS map for the city of Napega - so don't be too disappointed.

• Metanet Forums - South-West (Underground Line 6, Crossrail Line A, Tramway T6). A very small number of stations were named after members of the Metanet forums, my first online community. Metanet was created by Mare & Raigan (who get a well-deserved station on the map for this), the two people behind 'N, The Way of the Ninja', known to my other friends as Stickman Adventures.

• Bus Enthusiasts - West (Underground Lines 6, 7, 10, Crossrail Line A, Overground Lines H and J). Stations here are named after various people I have met in person during bus garage open days, and other bus related events.

• London Underground Timetables - West and North-West (Underground Lines 2, 5, 7, 12, 17 and 18, Overground Line U). Stations here are named after my fellow colleagues in the London Underground timetables office, who write the timetables for all Underground lines, including all engineering works. I mainly work on the District and Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines, though I have worked on most lines. I will be doing a Northern Line timetable soon and after that, I only need to cross off the Waterloo & City line. You can see some of my work here - I wrote the Sundays timetable for Jubilee Line Working Timetable No. 17. I will be writing a fair few more Working Timetables in the future, most certainly!

• Deal or No Deal Fanatics - West (Underground Lines 5, 7 and 18, Crossrail Line F). Stations here are named after certain members of the Deal or No Deal forums. I've met just one of them in person, but I have met a few DoND fans online on Skype calls where we host and play TV gameshows. The DoND forum was such a warm place and I hope to meet a few more DoND fanatics in person soon, I had a lot of fun with the one person I did meet one day at Foyles.

• Imperial Gabor Hall (Grouped on Underground Line 4). Stations here are named after people who lived in Gabor Hall during 2012/13 along with me - and who didn't fit in any other Imperial Group. People on my floor tend to be nearer to the centre.

• Imperial Baseball (Grouped on Overground Lines G and H). Stations here are named after my baseball teammates whilst I was at Imperial. Go Falcons. There is a small little section for even more players, who didn't spend all too long in the club, on Tramway T4. (Sorry... Raiders have taken over).

• London Underground Schedulers (Grouped on Tramway T6). Stations here are named after the people who work in the train staff department - who work with our timetables and create the duty schedules for station staff and train operators.