Victoria underground line gets go-ahead – archive 21 August 1962. The new line is the first piece of major tube construction in Central London since 1907. A mock-up of the type of carriage to be used on the Victoria Line, 20th August 1968. Photograph: Ron Case/Getty Images. The long-awaited “Victoria Line” – an underground railway
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Rangers House – the art collection you’ve probably never seen. At the top end of Greenwich Park, away from the tourists is a grand house, called a lodge, and inside is one of the UK’s finest collections of art. And until last week, not the easiest or most obvious one to see. Source: Rangers House
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A Map Of Unbuilt London. Imagine if the Thames flowed to docks in Peckham, while its ancient course was reclaimed for cars. Picture London with a mile-high skyscraper, or a pyramid full of corpses on Primrose Hill. Would you have liked to see an airport at King’s Cross, or Charing Cross, or Peckham (again)? The
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Fascinating photos give an insight into what it was like on the Tube for London commuters from the 1960s to the 1980s. These images reveal what some of London’s most famous stations including Kings Cross and Waterloo were like nearly 40 years or more ago. While some of the photos show that elements of London’s
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Transport Geeks… Look At All This Stuff You Could Own. go on, have a look and buy some rare stuff from the auction, it all looks really good! It’s on 1 July 2018. Huge auction sale for tube, bus and train fans 1 July 2018. Source: Transport Geeks… Look At All This Stuff You Could
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A Tube Map That Never Happened, Based On Plans From The 1940sm BY WILL NOBLE. This is the tube map that could have been. Click to enlargeAlastair Carr painstakingly created the map, using details from sweeping proposals published in January 1946. The plans set out to improve and extend the underground rail network across London.
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So You Think You Know London? Best Of London, Secret | By: N Quentin Woolf Londonist Out Loud: So You Think You Know London? Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. In this episode, Londonist’s own Editor-at-Large, Matt Brown, is the guest, telling us why everything we think we
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Why New York City Stopped Building Subways? Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway’s progress, leading to its present crisis. This is the story, decade by decade. In the first decades of the 20th century, New York City experienced an unprecedented infrastructure boom. Iconic bridges, opulent railway terminals, and much of what
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Unbuilt London: The “figure of eight” tube line. There should be a major train junction under Oxford Circus acting as the centre point of a large double-loop tube line, had plans shown off in 1988 gone ahead. The £2.3 billion figure-of-eight tube line would have largely doubled the capacity of much of the existing Circle
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Underground Manchester: The tunnels, tube station shops hidden beneath the city’s streets. Take a look at some of the hidden tunnels and spaces including the remnants of a tube station that never was, a communications bunker, air raid shelters, canals and even shops More from the source: Underground Manchester: The tunnels, tube station shops hidden
