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Author | : David Bownes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0300245793 |
Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author | : Andrew Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-09 |
Genre | : Buses |
ISBN | : 9781916045316 |
Author | : Dr Gareth Moore |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1473576547 |
Test your knowledge and get to know the real London. Can you find your way from Bond Street to Kentish Town on a word ladder? Can you crack a 1950s underground code? Puzzle your way across London with this official TfL quiz book and over 200 word puzzles, cryptic clues, number games, anagrams and spot-the-difference challenges. Explore the capital from a whole new point of view, through the maps, posters and other fascinating artifacts of the iconic Underground, stored in Transport for London’s archive.
Author | : Judith Chernaik |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141389532 |
This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.
Author | : Michael F. Levey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Author | : James Fowler |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1789739551 |
This book is a timely assessment of a unique hybrid public body with a system of governance that once made London transport domestically popular and internationally admired: the London Passenger Transport Board.
Author | : Oliver Green |
Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2023-10-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0711289050 |
Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.
Author | : Mark Ovenden |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2019-05-09 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 014199150X |
Since its establishment 150 years ago as the world's first urban subway, the London Underground has continuously set a benchmark for design that many transit systems around the world - from New York to Tokyo to Moscow and beyond - have followed. London Underground by Design is the first meticulous study of every aspect of that feat. Beginning in the pioneering Victorian age, Mark Ovenden charts the evolution of architecture, branding, typeface, map design, interior and textile styles, posters, signage and graphic design and how all these came together to shape not just the identity of the Underground, but the character of London itself. This is the story of some of the most celebrated figures in design history - from Frank Pick, the guru who conceptualised the design of the modern Tube with his idea of 'design fit for purpose', to Harry Beck, the creator of the Tube map, and from Marion Dorn, one of the leading textile designers of the 20th Century, to Edward Johnston, creator of the distinctive font that bears his name. Rich with stunning illustrations, London Underground by Design shows that design is about more than aesthetic pleasure, but is crucial to how we get around.
Author | : Andrew Martin |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847658075 |
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.
Author | : Matthew (Matt) Wharmby |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1783831731 |
Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see nationwide possibilities and savings in legislation that was about to permit double-deck one-man-operation and partially fund purpose-built vehicles. However, prohibited by circumstances from developing its own rear-engined Routemaster (FRM) concept, LT instituted comparative trials between contemporary Leyland Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines.The latter came out on top, and massive orders followed. The first DMSs entering service on 2 January 1971. In service, however, problems quickly manifested. Sophisticated safety features served only to burn out gearboxes and gulp fuel. The passengers, meanwhile, did not appreciate being funnelled through the DMS's recalcitrant automatic fare-collection machinery only to have to stand for lack of seating. Boarding speeds thus slowed to a crawl, to the extent that the savings made by laying off conductors had to be negated by adding more DMSs to converted routes! Second thoughts caused the ongoing order to be amended to include crew-operated Fleetlines (DMs), noise concerns prompted the development of the B20 quiet bus variety, and brave attempts were made to fit the buses into the time-honored system of overhauling at Aldenham Works, but finally the problems proved too much. After enormous expenditure, the first DMSs began to be withdrawn before the final RTs came out of service, and between 1979 and 1983 all but the B20s were sold as is widely known, the DMSs proved perfectly adequate with provincial operators once their London features had been removed. OPO was to become fashionable again in the 1980s as the politicians turned on London Transport itself, breaking it into pieces in order to sell it off. Not only did the B20 DMSs survive to something approaching a normal lifespan, but the new cheap operators awakening with the onset of tendering made use of the type to undercut LT, and it was not until 1993 that the last DMS operated.