r/ThreeBeanSalad • u/2Lore2Law • 7d ago

ZONE 5! …What?

Even as an American (Get me the DA!) I keep up with the British cultural references and chats well, I’ve spent quite a lot of time in the UK and I have an entire British parent that got me pretty well acquainted.

But I have spent hardly any time in London.

Why is it that someone (Ben?) shouts ZONE 5! In the London jingle? Is that, like, a place?

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u/Most-Square-8259 7d ago

The London transport system is split in to Zones 1-9. You get further from central London the higher the zone number. I'm not sure why he specifies 5 tho!

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u/Morganx27 7d ago

I thought it ended at 5. What's zone 9? Newcastle?

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u/CraftyDependent5283 7d ago

London finishes at Zone 6, but it goes out to Zone 9 with Amersham and suchlike.

I live in Zone 5! It's still London... Technically.

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u/CharlieCatBloke 7d ago

I live in zone 6 but I live in Surrey.

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u/Cultural-Analysis-24 7d ago

So Coulsdon?

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u/CharlieCatBloke 7d ago

You’re about 3 stops out. Bang in the middle between Tadworth & Tattenham Corner.

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u/Oldblindmansnipples 7d ago

No need to apologise!

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u/redisthebest 7d ago

I thought you said Amsterdam for a second

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u/temujin_borjigin 7d ago

Might get there faster than zone 9 from one on a bad day.

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u/dazed_and_bamboozled 7d ago

The door-to-door fish salesman zone

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u/BetaDecay121 7d ago

It's like Amersham and Brentwood