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- Museums at Night takes place this weekend
- The Return of The Cough
- Testing being carried out on the new Cable Car route
- A look around the Leonardo exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
- A bookshop has opened inside the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
- Birds nesting at Canary Wharf
- Ride in a 1938 era tube train at the Rickmansworth Festival
- Expect gunfire and explosions near Old St tube station this evening
- St Nicholas Church in Great Wakering
- A small museum inside a military firing range
subterranean stuff Archive
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Some photos of the Crossrail construction site at Tottenham Court Road
Posted on April 20, 2012 | 4 CommentsOne of the larger and most visible construction sites for Crossrail has to be the massive site on the corner of Oxford Street and TCR – in what was always... -
More photos from inside the Connaught Tunnel
Posted on April 11, 2012 | 7 CommentsLast week I had a chance to go back into the Connaught Tunnel – the Victorian railway tunnel that runs underneath two of London’s docks and will be part of... -
70th anniversary of an aircraft factory hidden in a tube tunnel
Posted on April 7, 2012 | 6 CommentsAfter 16 months of preparation during the height of the blitz, a secret aircraft components factory was completed deep underground in North London in what were unfinished tunnels for the... -
Looking down a Victorian pumping shaft in Docklands
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 12 CommentsA small octagonal brick building in docklands conceals a marvellous secret – an 18 metre deep Victorian shaft that is used to pump out water that leaks into the Connaught... -
Photos from inside the Crossrail Station at Canary Wharf
Posted on March 23, 2012 | 7 CommentsIt may not look it from the outside, but an important part of Crossrail’s Canary Wharf station has already been completed – and five months ahead of schedule. In fact... -
Emergency services to simulate a terrorist attack on the tube network
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No CommentsWhenever the debate about why various disused tube stations — specifically Aldwych — can’t be opened to the public more often, it is usually pointed out that the best of... -
Green Park tube station to get groundwater cooling system
Posted on February 17, 2012 | No CommentsI thought work on this had been paused as part of the Great Olympic Engineering Shutdown, but a note from TfL earlier today says that a rather interesting air cooling... -
Photos inside a future Crossrail Tunnel
Posted on February 2, 2012 | 7 CommentsLast April I had a chance to walk through the length of the Connaught Tunnel, a disused railway tunnel in Docklands that will be refurbished for Crossrail. Today I went... -
The hidden wonders behind closed doors and under streets
Posted on December 12, 2011 | 1 CommentA lot of people have a fascination with the disused London Underground, London’s sewers or “secret” military bunkers, and I count myself amongst them, to the point of being a... -
Steam train passing through East London on Saturday
Posted on December 9, 2011 | 2 CommentsSteam trains in North and South West London while not commonplace, aren’t rare – but a steam train in East London is exceptionally so, and tomorrow (Sat 10th Dec) is...