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The sand drag at the very end of the rails — intended to help slow trains that overshot the stopping mark — was said to be home to a breed of harmless scorpion and featured in a 1979 episode of the BBC's Wildlife on One. They had been released there by the station foreman who was a keeper of exotic pets. The sand drag has since been removed.
In 1971/72 the London underground network was remeasured in kilometres using Ongar as its zero point.
The Royal Navy's Tigerfish torpedo was known as Project ONGAR during development. It was named after the station as the engineers hoped their new weapon would be "...the end of the line for torpedo development".
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