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- Next to the Blackwall Tunnel – the East India Docks Commemoration Plaque
- A curiosity about the local area maps at St Pancras Station
- Weekly round-up of London’s railway transport news
- A bronze frieze of London’s Underground commuters
- Tube Maps made from Lego go on display in stations
- Rare chance to ride a vintage tube train around the Kennington Loop
- Japanese Outsider Art at the Wellcome Collection
- Olympic Park opens in 47, or 49, or 50 days time at midnight
- Visit the Salvation Army Museum
- Hidden for 100 years – the Cheapside Hoard goes on display again
london underground Archive
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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. -
Construction of the Metropolitan Railway at King’s Cross
Posted on January 2, 2013 | 8 CommentsAnother look at the construction of the world's first underground passenger railway as seen by the Illustrated London News - this time from Feb 1861. -
How the world’s first underground (passenger) railway was built
Posted on December 28, 2012 | 8 CommentsAs we edge ever closer to the 150th anniversary of the opening of the world's first underground railway which is now just a couple of weeks away, it might be interesting to review of the newspaper reports about how the construction of the railway progressed up to that momentous date. -
London Underground’s 150th anniversary – more details released
Posted on December 4, 2012 | 2 CommentsMore details of next years celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the London Underground have been released and there are some juicy bits of fun being planned. -
London Underground have covered up a sub-station with art
Posted on December 3, 2012 | 2 CommentsOn a side street just off Edgware Road can be found a new electricity sub-station, required as part of the upgrade of the Underground for more trains and trains that are more thirsty in terms of electricity consumption. -
London’s Lost Pneumatic Railways
Posted on November 26, 2012 | 9 CommentsIn an age of steam locomotives and horse drawn carriages, a group of Victorians tried to build the world's first true tube tunnel railway. A railway that would have also harnessed the power of the atmosphere to propel carriages in a manner that would astound the people of the time. -
25 Years Ago
Posted on November 18, 2012 | 2 Comments -
A look around the Victoria Station upgrade works
Posted on November 14, 2012 | 12 Comments(Updated – with some better 3d images of the station development courtesy of the Victoria Station Upgrade Project) Anyone using Victoria Station at the moment can’t have failed to notice...