Can You Hear That?
A few weeks ago my dad told me about a program he heard on CBC Radio 1 called Hark. It was about what London sounds like now, and how it would have sounded during the reign of Elizabeth I. Rather...
View ArticleHey King’s Cross, You Have a New Tube Ticket Hall
The new north ticket hall at King’s Cross St. Pancras Underground Station (to use it’s full name) opened today. It’s for the deep level lines – the Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines. There’s a...
View ArticleA Lil Look Around Aldwych Station
TFL currently have an exhibition on about the current and forth coming upgrades to various Tube lines. They just happened to host it in a station that’s been closed since 1994 that geeks like me would...
View ArticleRiding Trains Under The Ground
My first day in New York City included my first trip on the subway system. So first impression? It’s a bit dingy, makes me think of a dirtier version of the Berlin U-Bahn because of the squareness of...
View Article192 Pages, Nothing but Tube Stations
I was having a look around Blackwell’s in Tottenham Court Road at lunch on Monday and spotted an impressive Londony book I had never seen before, London Underground Stations by Stephen Durin: Just the...
View ArticleA Thing About Underground Signage
So a few days ago I noticed a few things during my work-related Tube journeys throughout the day. First was at Warren Street station. When it opened in 1907 it was called Euston Road but was changed...
View ArticleLeftovers in Bank Station
If you’re walking between the DLR and the Waterloo and City Line platforms at Bank Underground Station, at one point you’ll come across something that was left behind in 1898 and found 100 years later....
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