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Mind the gap quiz
Do you know which station names Emma announces on the London Underground? Test your knowledge.
Spoof tube announcements
Some things which you definitely won't hear on the London Underground – but wouldn't life be so much richer if you did?
London Underground Links
As commuters or tourists, we may well take the Tube for granted, but it has a rich and interesting history. Here are some links to help you find out more.
Animals on the London Underground
The London Underground map is famous for being a masterpiece of modern graphic design. What wasn’t so obvious, until it was spotted by Paul Middlewick, is that the London Underground map contains ‘hidden’ pictures of animals – everything from elephants to cats. Not convinced? Check out this site.
Ghosts on the London Underground
The London Underground map is famous for being a masterpiece of modern graphic design. What wasn’t so obvious, until it was spotted by Paul Middlewick, is that the London Underground map contains ‘hidden’ pictures of animals – everything from elephants to cats. Not convinced? Check out this site.
History of the London Underground
The London Underground has a long and complex history. There are quite a few Web sites that attempt to capture the Tube’s rich past – this is one of the better ones.
Celebrities on the London Underground
Since the Tube is one of the best ways to get around London, it’s no surprise that the great and good have to rub shoulders with the great unwashed. Even Dame Helen Mirren has an Oyster card, apparently. This Web site attempts to capture sightings of celebrities on the London Underground.
The sound of the London Underground
Does what it says on the tin. Lots of recordings of ordinary events on the London Underground – such as the Kentish Town escalator and Tube doors opening on the Bakerloo Line.
50 things you never knew about the London Underground
Well, we can’t guarantee that you won’t know these, but they are pretty obscure. Did you know, for example, that there’s only one Tube station name that doesn’t have any letters of the word ‘mackerel’ in it? (It’s St John’s Wood.)
London Underground blog
An award-winning and irreverent blog about the London Underground. Well worth a visit especially if you are a regular commuter on the Tube.
Poems on the Underground
One fine day it was decided that it would be a nice thing for people to be able to look at poems on the London Underground and not just adverts. We agree. This page tells you all about it – and check out the link to the archive of poems for a complete list.
A history of maps of the Underground
The London Underground map is famous – being original in not depicting either direction or distance, amazingly for a map, and yet still being extremely usable. But it wasn’t the first one. Find out how we arrived at the current map of the Tube.
London Underground quizzes
This one is really going to test your knowledge – some pretty difficult quizzes of London Underground information – such as history, dates and origins of station names. Highly recommended and harder than you might expect.
London Underground in World War II
A history of the role played by the London Underground during the Second World War.
Abandoned Tube stations
Do you know how many abandoned stations there are on the London Underground? No? Well, worryingly enough, neither does London Underground, it seems – but there are ‘well over 50’ apparently.