150 years of the underground | The Guardian

The poems chosen to mark the 150th anniversary of the capital's tube system reflect both the history and diversity of London It’s quite a challenge to choose poems for display on the tube duri...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/08/poems-on-underground-150-years-london

New footage has been released from the London transport museum collection to mark the 150th anniversary of the London underground. The footage offers a glimpse of how some of the older Tube lines...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/video/2013/jan/09/historical-footage-released-london-underground-video

Just the ticket: Recommend the best reads for a tube journey The London Underground is 150 years old . It opened in 1863, and last year transported over one billion passengers through its 270 st...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jan/09/best-books-to-read-london-underground

For the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, we'd like your help to build a playlist of songs about the tube The London Underground is 150 years old this week. On 9 January 1863 the firs...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/jan/09/london-underground-best-songs

See historic photographs charting the changing face of London's underground network, from its launch 150 years ago to date Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2013/jan/09/150-years-london-underground-pictures

As we mark the 150th anniversary of the London underground, we take a look at some tube posters from down the years Continue reading...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/gallery/2013/jan/09/london-underground-design

From secret bomb shelters to Blade Runneresque thrills, our architecture critic chooses his top London underground stations One of the liveliest stations of all, thanks to a thousand square metr...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/09/five-best-tube-stations-architecture

From the opening of the first line in 1863 to present-day record-breaking passenger numbers, here are the key years in the history of the tube 1863 The world's first underground train line, the...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/09/london-underground-a-condensed-history

London underground busker Wayne Myers on the perils of hecklers, the joy of licensing and the best – and worst – spots to play I've had people call me rubbish. I've been yelled at by incoher...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jan/09/london-tube-busker-wayne-myers

Poems on the Underground's Judith Chernaik relives her battles with Polo Mints and Greenpeace I have had to handle quite a few crises during my 25 or so years at the helm of Poems on the Underg...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/09/poems-on-the-underground

From Bond to Bourne to hairy monsters and sub-humans, cinema has always loved the tube The freshest image of the tube in moviegoers' memories is not an encouraging one: a train crashing through ...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/09/the-london-underground-in-film

To celebrate the London underground's 150th birthday, Stephen Moss takes a journey along the Central line – the longest, busiest, reddest tube line of them all Twenty years ago there would hav...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/09/london-underground-150-years-birthday

Which station has the most number of steps? Which is the least used? Who is the most famous person to be born on the tube? Discover the answers in this compendium of tube facts 1 IN 300M Chance...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/08/london-underground-facts-and-figures