Showing posts with label London Underground 150th anniversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London Underground 150th anniversary. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Mind the gap



Another special anniversary today - happy 150th birthday to London Underground!

Love it or loathe it, The Tube is the most comprehensive and useful transport system in the world. Navigating a city as confusing as London is always a mission - and admittedly there are few experiences as disgusting as being jammed up against a smelly stranger in the morning rush hour - yet without it (in my opinion) the capital would be a far less thriving and a far more anarchic place to live or to visit.

To celebrate, let's take a trip, with the official documentary [2019 UPDATE: gone from YouYube, so instead here's the BBC TV series of special reports] to mark the sesquicentennial of this unique railway network...






And, of course, as this is a celebration - we should "jack" to its sound!


Underground History website.