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	Tubeprune's LU History Page
		The Central London was extended eastwards from Bank to Liverpool Street in 1912 and westwards to Ealing in 1920 over a line built in partnership with the Great Western Railway but it had to wait until 1938 for its tunnels to be enlarged to normal tube size.
		London Transport remained much the same as before as far as the public was concerned except that it had become the LT Executive.
		London Underground Ltd. was formed as a subsidiary of LRT on 1st April 1985.
	www.trainweb.org /tubeprune/history.htm (3527 words)

	The History of the London Underground Poster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Frank Pick was Head of Publicity for the London Underground in 1908 and commissioned hundreds of posters by both popular artists and relatively unknown ones too.
		Therefore much of early and even current London Underground posters show how far you can travel on the tube and show the wonderful places you can travel to, particularly when you are not doing your normal 9 to 5 daily commute.
		In the 1920's the Underground was regularly producing over forty posters a year, by the fifties this had reduced to only seven or eight.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/london_underground/87712 (443 words)

	The London Underground
		While the Underground was constructed under the premise that it was to relieve traffic, its construction led to even further blockage of roads.
		Stevenson's famous poem "From a Railway Carriage" is another example: "All of the sights of the hill and the plain, fly as thick as driving rain, and ever again in the wink of an eye, painted stations whistle by." <16> The railways also appeared in literature in a negative light.
		The final, and most important consequence of the creation of the London Underground is the contribution it made to the regulation of standardized assistance to the poor.
	www.loyno.edu /~history/journal/1989-0/ladart.htm (2676 words)

	London Underground rolling stock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The history of London Underground's rolling stock is as complicated as the history of the network itself.
		A wide variety of types have been operated, from the early days of steam locomotives and carriages through to today's electric multiple units.
		There are two distinct types of line on the London Underground, the sub-surface lines (the earlier lines built on the cut-and-cover method and which use trains that are more or less the same size as those on the national railway network) and the deep-level 'Tube' lines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Underground_rolling_stock (522 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: London: Transport: Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		History of the Underground - Provides details about the disused stations or "ghost" stations on the underground, together with suggestions for their future use.
		London Railways Net - Primarily about London Underground but also information on some of the railway branch lines in East and West London, tourist information and additional information on other tunnels beneath London.
		London's Underground - Edwardian Tile Patterns - Explores the architecture and interior design of Tube stations, with a focus on the tiles adorning many platforms and concourses.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/London/Transport/Underground (1359 words)

	London Underground: Trains and Drains
		Recent controversy over the financing and management of the London Underground is trivial compared with some of the episodes and personalities found in its early history.
		An early attempt to build an underground railway from the Great Northern railway terminus at Kings Cross to Farringdon, in the city of London, was frustrated when Leopold Redpath, an officer of the Great Northern, stole the £170,000 set aside for the project.
		Underground to Everywhere places this unanswered question in its historical context as, in the twenty-first century, the Underground turns in a new direction, once again headed by an American under the direction of London's first elected mayor.
	www.bcuc.ac.uk /halliday/underground.htm (1144 words)

	History of the London Underground Map
		The London Underground's managing director had once dismissed a suggestion from Beck, a junior draftsman in 1931, for a new approach to mapping its railway using a simple diagrammatic method based on straight lines.
		A Grey Plaque (the Underground equivalent of London's Blue Plaques which show where famous people lived) was put up at Finchley Central Station 2 - 3 years ago, together with a replica of his orginal map.
		Given the sense of sheer fun which his design has engendered, and the degree of affection and international respect for it; I cannot believe that despite the vicissitudes of his relationship with London Transport, he would today resent that his ideas have created the means to help preserve the design heritage of London.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/london_underground/75828 (509 words)

	USATODAY.com - Screams, dense smoke and a rush to escape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		LONDON — The subway train just left King's Cross Station, and Anthony Latchana had settled in with a newspaper for his morning commute when he saw a bright light and heard a "massive, massive" bang.
		London's transit authority characterized the blasts as the "worst incident in the history of the London underground." A 1987 fire at King's Cross Station killed 31 people and prompted an overhaul of its emergency system.
		The London Underground conducted emergency exercises June 12, and emergency agencies have rehearsed for terrorism attacks.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-07-08-cover-blasts_x.htm (953 words)

	East End history, cockney history, East London Line, Underground, tube, Wapping, Tower Hamlets
		In 1912, the London theatre establishment was to get its revenge when the biggest name on the British stage was excluded from the inaugural Royal Variety Performance.
		London - or London England if you prefer - is one of the most culturally and historically exciting places on the planet.
		You'll certainly have heard of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders, may have romantic images of a fog-shrouded Victorian London, have heard some cockney rhyming slang and be familiar with the famous red London buses.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /hurley.htm (927 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The London Underground: A diagrammatic history: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is a map of the London Underground showing exactly when every line (and segment of line) and every station was opened and any subsequent closures, as well as all the changes in station names.
		There are also many books on the subject but this diagrammitic history shows a map of all the stations that have closed on the underground clearly and concisely.
		This book is a must have for anyone studying the history of the London Underground as it clearly shows what happened and makes it much easier to see and understand.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1854142194 (861 words)

	Mapper's delight: the London Underground diagrams
		London is calling is an interactive (and not entirely accurate) Tube map with the names of stations replaced by the titles of films shot at those locations.
		The London Bloggers Tube Map uses it as a gazetteer of webloggers in Greater London.
		Underground London, including 'lost' Tube stations, is represented in a map at the bottom of an article from Heritage Magazine, while a sideshift in transport generates a map of motorways in the London area.
	owen.massey.net /tubemaps.html (1012 words)

	A History of the London Tube Maps
		Combined maps of the underground railways were first issued in 1906 when the railways, under the control of an American Financier (Charles Tyson Yerkes) known as the Underground Electric Railways of London (UERL), were put on a single map.
		Referring to the underground as the "tube" had been used in a number of earlier underground maps but the picture on the front cover of this map, sponsored by the London newspaper "Evening News", coveys the true concept of why it was known as the tube.
		The Underground management was a little unsure of how the public would take to such a revolutionary change in the design and a note on the front cover of a trial run of the map (seen in the edition shown), invited people to send their comments to the Publicity Manager.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /clivebillson/tube/tube.html (6184 words)

	London Underground Guide - Going Underground - information and fun on the world's oldest subway system with Going ...
		I've spent a lot of my life travelling on the London Underground and felt it was about time I shared my experiences and also listened to people rant and rave about their thoughts when travelling on the tube.
		Other ads in the campaign include two people wandering down a street filled with coffee bars with a somewhat manic "caffeine overdose" look on their face and the other is on my tube rules page and shows a number of back packers with rather large rucksacks.
		Despite London Underground's claim that the interior of their trains are cleaned on a regular basis, the scientists made some alarming discoveries.
	www.going-underground.net (14740 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Art of the London Underground Poster
		In the 1920s, the Underground was regularly producing over 40 posters a year, by the 1950s this had reduced to only seven or eight.
		The Underground has for years been known as the Tube, and the very double-entendre of seeing the famous lines drawn out, pop-art style, with a Tube of paint is something which immediately catches the eye.
		Now the London Transport museum is home to the great historic archives of the Tube poster and is also the principal retail outlet for these posters.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A707933 (1291 words)

	London Underground History - An analysis of the trailer for Creep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is quite obvious that a large percentage of the movie was filmed on location a few distinct locations on the London Underground, all of which are featured on this web site.
		London Underground no longer allow access to this location to anyone without operational reason to do so, for health and safety reasons.
		I believe this stock is no longer in regular service on the London Underground and I suspect that it is highly likely to be the same train that I saw that's kept at Aldwych for the use of filming companies.
	starfury.demon.co.uk /uground/creep (1845 words)

	London Underground Map, Tube stations & lines - where to find the london tube map
		You would have thought that the London Underground's official site would have been the best place to find a map of the Tube, well there certainly is a tube map there but it does take a long time to download.
		Drawing extensively from the literature and visual archives of the underworld, London under London traces the history of the tunnellers and borers who have pierced the ground beneath the city for close on two thousand years.
		Whilst acknowledging the massive contribution he made through the introduction of diagrammatic elements, it is false to assert (as is often done in the media) that he "designed" the London Underground map, for its origins predate his work by many decades.
	solo2.abac.com /themole/maps.html (5709 words)

	UrbanRail.Net > Europe > UK > LONDON Underground (Tube) and Docklands Light Rail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Greater London is home to some 8 million people and apart from the London Underground, a dense network of commuter railways (former Network SouthEast) is operated by several private companies like Connex, Thameslink or First, especially in the south of the city.
		Most of today's underground lines were built in the first half of the 20th century in deep level tube tunnels within the central area of London and extended above ground through the suburbs.
		In South London, around Croydon, a modern tram network was built which runs on street level in downtown Croydon and on old BR rail alignments on outer routes.
	de.geocities.com /u_london/london.htm (1729 words)

	London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog
		I keep hearing announcements on the London Underground as to how the Oystercard is "Faster, smarter and cheaper", and yet their Oystercard poster ad saying it was better than a travelcard this was pulled because it was certainly not cheaper thank a paper travelcard if you use National Rail as part of your journey.
		London Underground seat upholstery or moquette has been used to cover a wide range of items, and this ironing board is one of the stranger ones I've seen.
		Remember that London Underground's Platform for Arts already exists, also remember that the London Underground is in part funded by advertising revenue and that the ASA (Advertising Standard Authority) exists to make sure we are not misled, harmed or offended by rubbish adverts.
	london-underground.blogspot.com (8892 words)

	KryssTal : The Piccadilly Line
		Piccadilly Line is London's premier tube, passing from the airport through the hotel, shopping, and tourist areas of London.
		King's Cross is London's second busiest Underground station (54 million passengers per year) and the one with most lines (six: Piccadilly, Northern, Victoria, Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City).
		Leicester Square is the shortest on the London Underground (0.26km).
	www.krysstal.com /piccline.html (1605 words)

	London Underground history 1960-1969
		The branch is still served by the Piccadilly Line.
		Tower Hill station closed, replaced the next day by a new station on the site of the old Tower of London station.
		Tower Hill station opened on the site of the old Tower of London station, which closed 1884-10-12.
	www.berga.nu /~usrlt/lu/1960s.html (241 words)

	LondonRailways.Net
		Primarily about London Underground - the Tube - you will also find information here on some of the railway branch lines in East and West London, some help for tourists and some additional information on other tunnels beneath London.
		This is not an official site, but I hope you will find something of interest.
		If you want travel or tourist information, please go to the Visiting London page and follow the links there.
	www.londonrailways.net (95 words)

	Opteama. Case History: London Underground Limited
		Home Company Profile Expertise Case Histories Contact Us Links
		London Underground Limited (LUL) is one of the largest urban transport systems in the world.
		LUL first started identifying and analysing its business processes in the early 1990's as part of their Company Plan initiative and also through its re-focus of engineering programme.
	www.opteama.co.uk /case_history/casehistory_lu.htm (365 words)

	Underground History - moved! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Underground History has moved to a new home, allowing the site to expand beyond the tight limits allowed by the old servers.
		You can access the new site by clicking here.
		Please update your bookmarks/links as this forwarding page won't be here for long...
	www.starfury.demon.co.uk /uground (53 words)

	Transport Diversions Emporium - LONDON UNDERGROUND DIAGRAMMATIC HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This diagram has been designed to show how London's Underground system has developed, and also to show all station name changes.
		All dates refer to public passenger services provided by companies which eventually came under the control of the London Passenger Transport Board, and those of the organisation's successors.
		Keywords: UNDERGROUND DIAGRAM REFER CAME BOARD DOUGLAS ROSE LARGE CLOSURE SEVENTH
	www.transportdiversions.com /publicationshow.asp?pubid=2008 (98 words)

	Clive's Page
		However, here are some links to things I've done.
		Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides - a line-by-line guide to the features and history of London's Underground.
		As well as being the oldest such system in the world, the Underground remains one of the largest and most complex.
	www.davros.org (490 words)

	London Underground homepage - Transport for London
		Great deals at London attractions include discounted entry to major galleries
		London Underground responds to the threat of industrial action on the Tube
		December and January transport services are detailed in our festive travel pages
	www.tfl.gov.uk /tube (47 words)

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