One reason British men never ask out Gwyneth Paltrow: they're too busy talking about trains. More precisely, the new Crossrail project, which will link Heathrow to the center of London, defunct Underground stations, government bunkers, the secret line from Whitehall out north under King's Cross, and Willesden Junction, which will be the most connected place on the planet. Outstanding question, with the winner getting a Paypal prize of a fiver: was Aylesbury ever a station on a tube map?