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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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Photos – underground brick vaults by the Mall
Posted on December 5, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe Mall Galleries, housed within the Grade I listed Carlton House Terrace on The Mall, is to have its previously unseen brick vaults restored, thanks to a grant from the... -
Guide book to disused underground tube and train stations
Posted on December 2, 2011 | No CommentsA pocket book — that actually fits in a pocket — has been launched by regular transport publishers, Capital History and aims to offer a selection of guided walks around... -
Photos inside the disused tube station at Aldwych
Posted on November 25, 2011 | 10 CommentsAnnounced a couple of weeks ago – and sold out within a few days – today marked the first of two open weekends at the disused tube station at Aldwych.... -
The Crystal Palace Subway Tunnel
Posted on November 15, 2011 | 11 CommentsI was interested to read this morning of a campaign to reopen a long disused tunnel at Crystal Palace that I have long wanted to poke rather more than just... -
The underground railway in North Korea
Posted on November 6, 2011 | 6 CommentsAbout 7 years ago I was finishing a long stint of very hard work, and feeling weary, decided to book a holiday… to North Korea. Because that is the sort... -
More details of London Underground’s 150th Anniversary Events
Posted on November 1, 2011 | 6 CommentsYou may recall that the Transport Museum has secured a grant to restore an old carriage in time for the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, which takes place in... -
The Northern Line tunnel – bombed and flooded in 1940 – and still sealed shut
Posted on October 26, 2011 | 28 CommentsJust before midnight on the 9th September 1940, sailors up on deck of the cargo sailing ship, Seven Seas were watching an air raid by German bombers over the Charing... -
The little used pedestrian tunnel by London Bridge
Posted on October 24, 2011 | 7 CommentsComing out of London Bridge tube station onto Tooley Street, you will often be buffeted from side to side by the hordes of tourists, and almost as many sales people... -
Fancy testing part of a future Crossrail Station?
Posted on October 5, 2011 | 5 CommentsIf you use the tube station at Victoria, then you already are! An area within one of the busiest parts of the already very busy Victoria station was changed a... -
Today marks the final trip of the ’67s on the Victoria Line
Posted on June 30, 2011 | 1 CommentToday will be the very last time you will be able to see one of the venerable old 1967 Stock tube trains running along the Victoria Line in normal passenger...