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- A look around an empty office block in Victoria
- Steam trains to run along part of the Central Line in June
- How to get tickets to the 2013 Last Night of the Proms
- A few Crossrail construction site photos
- Public Tours of HMS Illustrious Next Weekend
- Tom Daley’s swimming trunks become a Museum artefact
- Cyclists wanted to test “Dutch Roundabouts”
- Thoughts about the Acid on the Jubilee Line
- 20 years ago – Queen announces public tours of Buckingham Palace
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london underground Archive
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Steam trains to run along part of the Central Line in June
Posted on May 11, 2013 | 1 CommentTickets for another of the London Underground's 150th anniversary events have just gone on sale, and include some pretty decent prices for trips in a luxuriously restored Victorian steam carriage. -
Thoughts about the Acid on the Jubilee Line
Posted on April 29, 2013 | 1 CommentPart of the Jubilee Line is to be closed between Finchley Road and Waterloo for repairs over the next two years due to acid eating into the tunnel linings. -
Blue Plaque Unveiled for Tube Map Pioneer
Posted on March 25, 2013 | 14 CommentsEarlier today a new blue plaque was unveiled by English Heritage, which has a very specific and rare difference from all the other plaques they have installed on the sides of buildings. -
Last day of free Wi-Fi on the Underground
Posted on January 29, 2013 | 13 CommentsLaunched just in time for the Olympics, Virgin's Wi-Fi service has been on of those rare tube upgrades that seems to have had a significant and immediate impact on those who use it. -
Baker Street Underground Station made out of Lego
Posted on January 15, 2013 | 6 CommentsTo mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, what could be more fitting that to recreate the famous Baker Street Station from Lego? Well, lots of things probably, but this blog post is about Lego. -
Steam trains return to the London Underground after a 50 year absence
Posted on January 14, 2013 | 3 CommentsYesterday, for the first time in over 50 years, passengers were hauled by the raw undiluted force of coal and water once again. -
Google celebrates the London Underground with a Doodle
Posted on January 9, 2013 | 4 CommentsWell, it's arrived at last - the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, or maybe that is tomorrow? -
Best places to photograph London Underground’s heritage steam train trips
Posted on January 7, 2013 | 37 CommentsThis coming Sunday, London Underground will send a steam train along the original Metropolitan Line and parts of the District Line - so I wandered out to check where the best places will be to watch it. -
Diverting the Fleet River for the London Underground
Posted on January 6, 2013 | No CommentsAnother look back at the construction of the world's oldest underground passenger railway as seen by the Illustrated London News - this time from February 1862. -
The other two London Underground anniversaries this month
Posted on January 3, 2013 | 7 CommentsWhile lots of attention is focused on the 150th anniversary of the London Underground dominating the calendar next week, there are in fact two other significant anniversaries this month.