London subway, tube or underground is a transit system serving the city of London (United Kingdom) with the urban, suburban & commuter train, the tram, the bus, the nigth bus or the river bus. The tube network has 11 lines and 270 stations forming a rail network of 249 miles (402 ...
This book catalogues and showcases the surviving stations from this innovative period and later examples influenced by it. Contemporary photographs by Philip Butler, annotated with a station-by-station overview by Joshua Abbott, will guide you through the network's Modernist gems. London Tube Station...
London's busiest underground stations will soon feature on Google Street View. A camera placed in a backpack will capture 360-degree images from inside 30Tubestations including Bank, King's Cross St Pancras and Waterloo. Google and Transport for London (TfL) hope the images wil...
is looking at ways to cut back on energy use at 20 of its most energy efficient stations. It is part of its environmental improvement program. Meanwhile, the London Underground Environment Report for 2005 indicates that the use of regenerative braking on 40 percent of the train fleet has been...
Stamford Brook:Smart, respectable and shabby — an old, proud duke who's fallen on tough times ★★★ Stanmore:Country cottage with a back garden ofspectacular countryside★★★ Stepney Green:Alluring on the surface, oppressive on the inside — the venus flytrap of tube stations ★★ Stockwell...
Though sheltering in the Kyiv Metro peaked during the initial Russian invasion in February 2022, stations are still being used as bomb shelters now — as is the case with the Kharkiv Metro, situated closer to the Russian border. Echoes of the Blitz has been created in partnership withn-ost,...
5.Re: Tube stations that are near each other 18 years ago Here's a first stab at the list, with just the most central stations to begin with. ANy corrections or additions welcome. Each line shows stations that are within my idea of walking distance of each other, with the lin...
While a few modern flourishes have crept in, South Kensington is one of few tube stations proudly hanging on to its design heritage. Whether the hoards of tourists trudging along to the nearby museums appreciate or not is another question. 'Before' image © London Transport Museum Bank, 1920...
Canary Wharf Tube Station 9– Canary Wharf – Entries and exits in millions: 54.79 Wiki Info:The world’s first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened in 1863, is now part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines; the first line to operate underground elect...
since my last blog post, so I thought it was probably about time to give a quick update about the status of my walks. Last month, I was literally 1 walk away from walking the entireStandard Tube Map(Tube, DLR, Overground and Cable Car), but then TFL went and added afew new lines....