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36 unusual facts about London underground


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The album contains the best of both releases, along with an outtake from the original EP sessions and a video for "Plans Get Complex" (which was shot in a variety of locations across London, including Regent Street and a London Underground train).

Alan Devonshire

He also enhanced his rapport with supporters by travelling to home game on the London Underground from his West London home.

Albert Rutherston

In 1927 Rutherston illustrated the Thomas Hardy book Yuletide In A Younger World, and designed posters and tickets for the London Underground.

Annie and Clarabel

The television versions of the characters bear a strong resemblance to coaches of the Metropolitan Railway, part of what is now the London Underground.

Asfordby

On 12 February 2007, Metronet announced that they had leased the track and would be refitting part of it to test the next generation of air conditioned tube trains.

Baise-moi

London Underground banned the display of the film's advertising poster because of fears that its title would offend French-speakers using its network.

Benoît Assou-Ekotto

He carries an Oyster card and frequents the London Underground, and often walks with Tottenham supporters towards the stadium before home matches.

Charles Pears

From 1913 to 1936, Pears was a prolific poster artist, working for London Underground.

Dawn Swann

Dawn escapes after attacking Rob and returns to Walford, but goes into labour on the London Underground, later giving birth to a girl, Summer.

Disney Fantasy

The Tube is a dance club themed after the London Underground, complete with white subway tile, subway map carpet, and handlebars at the booths.

Dorothy Manley

While at the Games, she travelled to and from Wembley on the London Underground, as she was sharing a room with two other athletes near Eccleston Square in central London.

Ehud Banai

After his discharge, he moved to London, where he played in the London Underground for six months.

Exclusive First Editions

Another range launched under the Exclusive First Editions banner involved model London Underground tube trains.

Jimmy Spinks

In his later years Spinks lost his famed good looks and had a face like "a map of the London Underground" due to his years of violence in the world of crime and bareknuckle boxing.

John W. F. Bennett

During this time, he supervised the construction of the Ritz Hotel, the Waldorf Hotel, the Morning Post Building, three London Underground stations, the Liverpool Cotton Exchange and the Lancaster Town Hall.

Kept

The show, when aired in the United Kingdom on the channel VH1 UK, caused a small controversy when adverts were banned from London Underground stations.

Kevin Meaney

Meaney has been involved in a number of television programs including Ned & Stacey, Dr. Katz, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Garfield and Friends, Rocko's Modern Life, London Underground, and Duckman.

Koo Koo

For the promotion of KooKoo, Chrysalis Records planned to display large posters of the album cover in various stations of the London Underground.

Mr Selfridge

The disused Aldwych tube station was used to film Rose Selfridge travelling on the London Underground and scenes in the first episode featuring Victor Colleano, Agnes Towler and her brother George.

Museum railway station

Museum's signage and cream tiling with maroon highlights are reminiscent of a typical London Underground tube station of the era, however its layout of central tracks under a grand arch are more in keeping with older stations of the Paris Metro.

My Aim Is True

The label then suggested that he share a debut album with Wreckless Eric, but Costello had written enough songs, most of them at home late at night so as not to wake his wife and young son or on the Underground while commuting to work, to have an entire album of his own.

Natalia Tena

She hosted a behind-the-scenes featurette entitled "Trailing Tonks" for the subsequent DVD and Blu-ray release, and is credited as producer and director of the featurette, in which she also performs an original Christmas-themed blues song on guitar, which she composed while working as a busker on the London Underground.

Nations of Nineteen Eighty-Four

One British town, Colchester, is referenced specifically as having been destroyed; flashbacks to Smith's childhood also include scenes of Londoners taking refuge in the city's underground transit tunnels in the midst of the bombing.

Olympia and York

Britain entered a recession, British firms were unwilling to relocate from the traditional financial centre within the City, and despite a personal promise by Margaret Thatcher, the London Underground line known as the Jubilee Line Extension was delayed in construction awaiting the contributions from Olympia & York (with the line eventually opening in the year 2000).

Poole Pottery

The Carter company produced much of the ceramic tiling used on London Underground stations built in the 1930s and, of particular note, made the relief tiles, designed by Stabler, showing symbols of London–some of these can still be seen on stations such as Bethnal Green.

Reginald D. Hunter

Hunter often uses variations of the term "nigger" in the titles of his shows; Reginald D Hunter: Pride & Prejudice... & Niggas attracted some controversy, and the poster was banned from the London Underground.

Sam Saunders

Before becoming a professional footballer, Saunders worked as an electrician for the London Underground.

Self Winding Clock Company

Complex SWCC synchronized systems were even installed in the London Underground.

Signage systems

One of the most commonly cited examples of a well-designed signage system is the London Underground.

Slimane Khalfaoui

Khalfaoui with Algerian-British Rabah Kadre, participated in a reported attempt to attack the London Underground, with poisoning substances scheduled in late 2002.

Speedbird

He also did posters for the London Underground at the time, which similarly incorporate then-stylish minimalist art forms.

Stephen B. Whatley

This painting was reproduced on posters and displayed all over the London Underground.

That Summer Day

Unfortunately, his mood and his first day at his new school are quickly ruined when he learns the London Underground has been bombed.

Thomas Robert Way

He trained at the South Kensington Art Schools and designed posters for London Underground between 1910 and 1913.

Tom Sidwell

However while travelling to the ground – The Oval in Surrey – for the next day's play, he became lost on the London Underground and was given out while mid-transit.

Westinghouse Rail Systems

The £850 Million contract was issued to Westinghouse by Metronet, and was for the resignalling of eight of the London Underground lines.


42nd Street Shuttle

Waterloo & City lineLondon Underground's shortest line, is a shuttle running non-stop between Bank–Monument station and Waterloo station in central London.

Burnt Oak tube station

Burnt Oak tube station is a London Underground station in Burnt Oak, north London, on Watling Avenue, off the A5 (the Edgware Road, originally a Roman Road known as Watling Street).

C2c

In June 2006 it was announced that portable X-ray machines and metal detectors would be randomly placed at stations and carried by officers on trains during summer 2006 to catch people carrying weapons, in a joint operation with Essex Police and British Transport Police, following trials at London Underground stations.

Central Middlesex Hospital

The closest London Underground stations to the hospital are, North Acton and Hanger Lane which are on the Central line, Park Royal which is on the Piccadilly line and Willesden Junction and Harlesden which are both on the London Overground and Bakerloo line.

Chiltern Railways

The line to Aylesbury Vale Parkway via Amersham runs alongside London Underground's Metropolitan Line between Finchley Road) and Harrow-on-the-Hill, with each operator running on separate tracks, then shares the tracks with Metropolitan Line services.

Freedom Pass

The Freedom Pass is valid at all times on London Underground, London Overground, Bus, Tram, and Docklands Light Railway services in Greater London (until January 2009 the pass was only valid on weekdays from 9:00).

James Murray Dobson

He had a large office of his own in which he prepared the designs for the Stockton bridge for Charles Neate and Harrison Hayter, and designs of the ironwork of the lines and stations of the London underground District Railway extension to Whitechapel for Sir John Hawkshaw.

Kleinzeit

Many abstract concepts are similarly personified, including Death, Hospital, the (London) Underground (which is associated with the myth of Orpheus), Action and God.

Lanark: A Life in Four Books

The Institute he describes as a combination of Wyndham Lewis's conception of Hell in Malign Fiesta along with three real-life structures: the London Underground, Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow and BBC Television Centre in London.

London Underground 2009 Stock

The 2009 Tube Stock is a type of London Underground train built by Bombardier as part of its Movia family at its Litchurch Lane Works in Derby, England.

MacDonald Gill

In 1914 his "Wonderground Map", commissioned by Frank Pick, and hung at every station, helped to save the London Underground by presenting an accurate map which also had a humorous side in cartoon style.

Mind The Gap Theatre

The title is taken from a warning message frequently heard on the London Underground train system, where a voice reminds passengers to Mind the gap when alighting from the train; it also alludes to the gap between British and American theatre.

Movia

Movia trains are on order and entering service for the London Underground (designated S Stock and 2009 Stock), Toronto Subway (designated Toronto Rocket), and Delhi Metro.

Oliver Goldsmith

London Underground locomotive number 16 (used on the Metropolitan line of the London Underground until 1962) was named Oliver Goldsmith.

Overheard in New York

In Passing began publishing overheard dialogue from Berkeley, California in 2000, and more recent sites feature conversations from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Paris, Dublin, the London Underground, Minneapolis, Yale University and Vancouver, B.C..

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum

Alongside commercial work for Wedgwood Pottery, Shell Petroleum, Guinness and The London Underground, he also painted many members of London’s fashionable Bright Young Things - including writer Edith Sitwell and photographer Cecil Beaton.

Special Reconnaissance Regiment

On 22 July 2005 Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by armed police officers on the London Underground rail system, at Stockwell tube station.

Stations of the Crass

The album's title is not only a pun on the Catholic rite of the Stations of the Cross (such jibes against the religious establishment were almost a Crass hallmark), but is also a reference to the graffiti campaign that the band had been conducting around London's underground railway system, the cover artwork depicting a wall at Bond Street tube station that had allegedly been 'decorated' by them.

Stephen Dale Petit

He went from being a performer in the London Underground to giving masterclass University lectures on blues music whilst becoming a well known stage act.

Steven Norris

His platform included promises to open the Tube until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays and a "zero tolerance" approach to crime adapted from New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom he met to discuss strategies to combat crime in April 2004.