Next Station: London FAQ
20 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and how to play
- Can each household in a remote game use its own copy and rotate the four pencil colours?
- Can Next Station: London be played with more than four players by adding extra coloured pencils?
- How many turns can a round's construction phase last?
- Does a round end only after every station card is flipped, or when the fifth Underground card appears?
Construction rules
- Can an Underground line cross another line, including a line of a different colour?
- How many times can a line be started from its colour's departure station in one round?
- Can you continue a line from either of its ends on later turns?
- Can a line radiate out from one station with several sections, forming a hub?
- What happens if the revealed symbol has no station you can connect to?
Special stations
- Is the Railroad Switch still in effect for a second section drawn with the Draw second section pencil power?
- Can the second section drawn with the Draw second section pencil power connect to any station after the first section links to the central ? station?
- How does the Railroad Switch card work when it is flipped?
- Can you draw from the end of your line when the Railroad Switch is flipped, and does a switch on turn one or two matter?
Scoring
- How is an interchange station with three colours scored, once as a two-line and once as a three-line station?
- Do two sections of the same colour meeting at one interchange count as separate lines for interchange scoring?
- Do stations in a secondary district count toward the main district that contains it when scoring the district with the most stations?
Advanced modules and solo mode
- In the shared objective to connect all five tourist sites, must the line pass in and out of each tourist site?
- Does the x2 pencil power on a tourist site also give two steps on the tourist site track?
- What does the boxed icon on the scoresheet, above the two +10 boxes, mean?
- In solo mode, do you subtract 10 points per advanced module even if you complete its objective?