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Underground, overground : a passenger's history of the Tube / Andrew Martin.
- Title
- Underground, overground : a passenger's history of the Tube / Andrew Martin.
- Author
- Martin, Andrew, 1962-
- Publication
- London : Profile, 2012.
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- Description
- xvi, 304 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface: 'Dad I'm off to London' -- Introduction: Transport for London ... and vice versa -- 1. The world of Charles Pearson [(1793-1862)] -- 2. The metropolitan railway -- The Metropolitan and its associates -- 4. The expansion of the Metropolitan and the expansion of the District -- and a pause for thought -- 5. Deeper -- 6. Three nore Tubes -- 7. Enter [Charles Tyson] Yerkes -- 8. Everywhere in trains -- 9. Northern and Piccadilly -- 10. 1933 and all that -- 11. New works -- 12. The [Second World] War and after -- 13. The modern Tube (or [Ken] Livingstone's wars) -- 14. Londoners and the Tube -- Conclusion: Hidden wonders.
- ISBN
- 9781846684777 (hbk.)
- 1846684773 (hbk.)
- 9781847658074 (ebook)
- 1847658075 (ebook)
- OCLC
- 775029690
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library