Underground, Overground
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Underground, Overground

A Passenger's History of the Tube

  1. 269 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Underground, Overground

A Passenger's History of the Tube

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781846684784
eBook ISBN
9781847658074
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: ‘Dad, I’m off to London’
  6. Introduction: Transport for London … and vice versa
  7. Chapter One: The World of Charles Pearson
  8. Chapter Two: The Metropolitan Railway
  9. Chapter Three: The Metropolitan and Its Associates
  10. Chapter Four: The Expansion of The Metropolitan and The Expansion of The District – and A Pause for Thought
  11. Chapter Five: Deeper
  12. Chapter Six: Three More Tubes
  13. Chapter Seven: Enter Yerkes
  14. Chapter Eight: Everywhere in Trains
  15. Chapter Nine: Northern and Piccadilly
  16. Chapter Ten: 1933 and All That
  17. Chapter Eleven: New Works
  18. Chapter Twelve: The War and After
  19. Chapter Thirteen: The Modern Tube (or Livingstone’s Wars)
  20. Chapter Fourteen: Londoners and The Tube
  21. Conclusion: Modern Wonders
  22. Acknowledgements
  23. Select Bibliography
  24. Index