Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line?
The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs and improvisations.Yet it transports over one billion passengers every year - and this figure is rising. It is iconic, recognised the world over, and loved and despised by Londoners in equal measure.
Blending reportage, humour and personal encounters, Andrew Martin embarks on a wonderfully engaging social history of London's underground railway system (which despite its name, is in fact fifty-five per cent overground). Underground, Overground is a highly enjoyable, witty and informative history of everything you need to know about the Tube.
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- English
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface: ‘Dad, I’m off to London’
- Introduction: Transport for London … and vice versa
- Chapter One: The World of Charles Pearson
- Chapter Two: The Metropolitan Railway
- Chapter Three: The Metropolitan and Its Associates
- Chapter Four: The Expansion of The Metropolitan and The Expansion of The District – and A Pause for Thought
- Chapter Five: Deeper
- Chapter Six: Three More Tubes
- Chapter Seven: Enter Yerkes
- Chapter Eight: Everywhere in Trains
- Chapter Nine: Northern and Piccadilly
- Chapter Ten: 1933 and All That
- Chapter Eleven: New Works
- Chapter Twelve: The War and After
- Chapter Thirteen: The Modern Tube (or Livingstone’s Wars)
- Chapter Fourteen: Londoners and The Tube
- Conclusion: Modern Wonders
- Acknowledgements
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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