As you’ll all know I’m a big fan of the London Underground. Here’s some excellent sites I’ve spent many a night reading when I should of been in bed!
— BBC Guide to the London Underground
The BBC’s h2g2 web-o-pedia job has a nice long article on some of the quirkier points of the tube. From specific stations perks to network wide savvy tips. A great guide and the guy that wrote it is pretty funny, too.
The underground is an ingenous device that lets us travel underneath the very streets of london at a super slow speeds, in total confusion, in a miasmic stinking cloud and with total strangers who avoid eye-contact in fear of someone mistaking it for some sexual come-on. Even married couples and best-mates of 20 years turn to face away from each other and act as if they were total strangers. Anyone even whispering is considered mad or foreign and is a faux pas of the highest magnitude in British culture.
– London’s Abandoned Tube Stations
Abandoned stations was proabably the thing that got me into loving the tube, I think it was from one of the numerous ‘urban exploring’ sites I was reading a few years ago where I saw a link to an exploration of one of the many abandoned stations on the network and thus the obsession began. This is a good site.
London Underground are ridiculously possessive about their abandoned tube stations
- most requests to visit the stations fall on spoilsport ears.
So for those who have wondered what those old stations look like, I
hope the following photos will be of interest.
A site that goes hand in hand with the one above, detailing lots of different disused, abandoned or other “hidden bits” on the world’s oldest subway system. Spent too many hours on this site when I should of been doing my A level coursework. Damn you!
One of the things I find most interesting is the changing history of the railway, of which there is still much hidden evidence. For example, look through the window as you travel between Tottenham Court Road and Holborn on the Central Line and you’ll see a station – where no passengers have alighted since 1932. This used to be British Museum station. Or perhaps you may notice the tunnel wall change from cast iron tubing to bricks as you travel on the Piccadilly Line between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner. This also used to be a station. Down Street, closed in the same year as British Museum. These stations are often referred to as ghost stations.
A site that has pictures of the London Underground map from 1863 to the present day. Lot’s of pictures which can take a while to load, also some slightly off beat maps, like the one that actually shows it geographically correct as opposed to the Tube’s map which doesn’t really give you scale distances between stations.
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An unofficial site with details about many of the up and coming construction or other works on the tube, dlr, rail, road and other transport in London.
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Some interesting stories and very good photos here.
This page is a home for pictures that I’ve taken on London Underground which aren’t specifically illustrating a train (those can all be found in my LU Rolling Stock pages), and which aren’t part of a more specific article.
