Today S London Underground

Author : Reiss O'Neill
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473869523

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Today's London Underground by Reiss O'Neill Pdf

The Underground network in London has always held a fascination for historians and transport enthusiasts, from the early days of the steam operated system in the 1860s. Today's London Underground covers the network as it is today, with features on the different lines across the capital and the modern day rolling stock in use, which serve London. The book covers all aspects of operation in pictures and text, with features on depots, stations, infrastructure and servicing facilities.

Author : Justin Bailey
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526772633

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Today's London Overground by Justin Bailey Pdf

The Orange Line, the Ginger Line or the M25 Railway, call it what it what you will, the London Overground, born in 2007, has become one of London’s transport success stories. Running complimentary to, and in some places, in combination with, London Underground, it carries more than 180 million passengers a year on 9 lines and serves 112 stations over a combined length of more than 100 miles. An amalgamation of several commuter lines (and one London Underground Line) that ring London it now branches out to all points of the compass. Over recent years it’s also undergone unprecedented change and investment (with a few troubles along the way) with the phasing out of old and the introduction of new rolling stock. This book takes a photographic look at these changes including a look at the routes, the stations and the trains including Classes 172, 315, 317, 378 and the brand new 710s with a brief history of each. And with so much freight sharing the Overground routes this is briefly looked at as well.

Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780711289055

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London's Underground, Revised Edition by Oliver Green Pdf

Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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London Underground by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoff Platt
Publisher : Wharncliffe
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781473858299

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The London Underground Serial Killer by Geoff Platt Pdf

The story is now thirty years old and most, if not all, of the characters involved were middle aged men at the time and are now dead. The story did make the national press when it first occurred. A murder in a Police Station is big news and something to beat the Police with. However, when it was found that 12 people had been pushed under underground trains in London by a man that they did not know, the government felt that it might lead to mass hysteria and put a lid on the story with the press.The officers involved were a small, select, cadre of elite Flying Squad and Serious Crime Squad officers from South London, the same ones who had been dealing with the Krays, Richardsons, Brinks Mat etc. Their methods were unorthodox and recorded in the best selling "Untouchables" book. They were several extreme and unusual and certainly unorthodox, tactics. Officers kidnapped senior Home Office officials and detained them until the Old Bailey judge issued a summons and threatened a warrant in 5 minutes. At the committal the judge, prosecution, defence and everybody had to step over the start witness and he vomitted on the judge's shoes. Witnesses being murdered. Other witnesses being locked up it secret cells to protect them from being murdered.The Attorney General was satisfied that there was convincing evidence of all 16 murders that Kelly admitted. He was in prison for thirty years with only one or two days between sentences and all the murders co-incided with his absences from prison and before his next arrest. When protected by Police, most had been witnessed. In 12 cases Kelly had presented himself to Police as a star witness who had been talking to the poor depressed man about his unfaithful wife when the train arrived at the station and he jumped underneath it. The widow eventually lost her husband, her reputation, when kelly's story was told to the coroner, and her insurance money, when the death was ruled to be suicide. The A.G. authorised five murders to be charged, and instructed that prosecutions were to be discontinued and the remaining charges left on file as soon as two convictions were secured, as further prosecutions would not be in the public interest, due to their expence.

Author : Ben Pedroche
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752497419

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Working the London Underground by Ben Pedroche Pdf

Used extensively and somewhat taken for granted by millions of commuters and tourists every day, the London Underground has long been a part of our national heritage and way of life. It was the first underground railway in the world, and is now central to lives of millions of Londoners. Here Ben Pedroche explores the realities of building the railway from the beginning, 150 years ago, exploring this dangerous, back-breaking job and how it culminated in the rail system we see today. He works his way through the construction and working history of this iconic system, until reaching modern day, including stories from London Underground workers and their real-life experiences. Backed up with sixty stunning archive and modern photographs, this is a book that anyone interested in the London Underground or London history cannot do without.

Author : Iain Spragg
Publisher : Portico
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781909396166

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London Underground's Strangest Tales by Iain Spragg Pdf

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of London's Underground, or as it is affectionately referred to, the Tube. Though this isn’t the usual side of the Tube the tourists, travellers and residents see. (Though, of course, they do see a great deal of strangeness in their daily commutes!). This is the real Underground, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of what happens hundreds of metres below millions of London legs – from its peculiar past through to its paranormal present and looking forward to its fascinating future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to London's globally envied, and much loved, public transport system. Located deep beneath the heart of Greater London, the Underground is awash with more strangeness than you can shake your pre-paid Oyster card at. In 2013 the whole city will be celebrating the Underground's 150th birthday – the oldest underground in the world. So, pack up your old kit bag and travel stop-by-stop with us on this strange and fantastic journey along the Northern, Picadilly, Metropolitan, Jubilee, Hammersmith and City and District Line ... and explore the Underground as you've never seen it before. London Underground's Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the humorous, the odd and the baffling – an alternative travel guide to the Underground's best-kept secrets. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned. Word Count: 35,000

Author : Anon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781514460764

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Mr. Beaston’S Guide to Commuting on the London Underground by Anon Pdf

This book looks at public transport in London, its proper use, and much more. Here are the men who built the early tubes, fraud, rivalry, crime, accidents, ghosts, and the supernatural on and off the Underground, travelling in short skirts and other essential information for the professional commuter. But London and London Underground do not exist in a vacuum. So this book also looks at anarchists and terrorists, observations on economics, housing, sexuality the rural situation and overseas to Georgia, Cossacks, and more. This book is not for the squeamish, neither is London. This is proper London.

Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781399055673

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The London Underground, 1968-1985 by Jim Blake Pdf

LONDON’S HISTORIC, iconic Underground railway system in the period from 1968 to 1985 was a very different place to what it is in the 2020s. Much of its rolling stock dated from before World War Two, and with the exception of the new Victoria Line and the isolated Woodford to Hainault shuttle, trains were all two-person operated as the 1970s dawned. Transport photographer Jim Blake recorded most of the system on film before it would change forever, concentrating on the older rolling stock as well as other items of interest due for replacement or modernisation, during this period when, regrettably, London Transport was often starved of much-needed funds by central government. The eminently sensible transfer of overall control of London’s buses and Underground system to the city-wide Greater London Council at the beginning of 1970 was snatched away by the Thatcher regime in 1984, after which things rapidly went downhill. This book covers the years of GLC control, including the months prior to their taking charge in order to set the scene. Many rare and unusual scenes are included in this volume, especially of the then still basically intact portion of the uncompleted Northern Line extension between Drayton Park and Highgate, which had been so close to completion when work was halted during the war, but then abandoned in the early 1950s, incurring much wasted work and expenditure. For anyone with a serious interest in London’s Underground, this book is essential reading, including as it does many pervious unpublished photographs.

Author : Philip Bagwell,Peter Lyth
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1852855908

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Transport in Britain by Philip Bagwell,Peter Lyth Pdf

Highlighting long term themes in Britain's transport history, this book looks at the dilemmas facing modern society and suggests several possible solutions. It covers all the major forms of transport, from the horse to the aeroplane, setting them in their historical context.

Author : David Ashford
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781387085

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London Underground by David Ashford Pdf

Surveying an unusually wide variety of material, ranging from the Victorian triple-decker novel, to Modernist art and architecture, to Pop music and graffiti, this book suggests that the tube-network is a transitional form, linking the alienated spaces of Victorian England to the virtual spaces of our contemporary consumer-capitalism.

Author : David Bownes,Chris Nix,Siddy Holloway,Sam Mullins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300245790

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Hidden London by David Bownes,Chris Nix,Siddy Holloway,Sam Mullins Pdf

Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215545303

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Update on the London Underground and the public-private (PPP) partnership agreements by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Pdf

Update on the London Underground and the public-private (PPP) partnership Agreements : Seventh report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written Evidence

Author : P.D. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608197064

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City by P.D. Smith Pdf

For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - are now living in cities. Two hundred years ago only 3 per cent of the world's population were urbanites, a figure that had remained fairly stable (give or take the occasional plague) for about 1000 years. By 2030, 60 per cent of us will be urban dwellers. City is the ultimate handbook for the archetypal city and contains main sections on 'History', 'Customs and Language', 'Districts', 'Transport', 'Money', 'Work', 'Tourist Sites', 'Shops and markets', 'Nightlife', etc., and mini-essays on anything and everything from Babel, Tenochtitlán and Ellis Island to Beijing, Mumbai and New York, and from boulevards, suburbs, shanty towns and favelas, to skylines, urban legends and the sacred. Drawing on a wide range of examples from cities across the world and throughout history, it explores the reasons why people first built cities and why urban populations are growing larger every year. City is illustrated throughout with a range of photographs, maps and other illustrations.

Author : David Long
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462363

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The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long Pdf

Did You Know? In 1884 the Circle Line opened and was described in The Times as 'a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.' According to one psychologist, Tube commuters can experience greater levels of stress than a police officer facing a rioting mob or even a fighter pilot going into a dogfight. Underground trains have only twice been used to transport deceased people in coffins: William Gladstone and Dr Barnardo. Some of the most bizarre items handed in to lost property include 250lb of sultanas, a 14ft canoe, a child's garden slide, a harpoon gun, a pith helmet, an artificial leg, someone's brother's ashes and a sealed box containing three dead bats. WITH well over a billion passengers a year, more than 250 miles of track, literally hundreds of different stations and a history stretching back at least 160 years, the world's oldest underground railway might seem familiar, but how well do you actually know it? This book offers a feast of Tube-based trivia for travellers and lovers of London alike.