Author : James Fowler
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1789739535
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 : David Bownes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : 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 : Oliver Green
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0711293295
Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : 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 : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1399085891
Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was the hub of a network of roads leading out to all the major centres of the time. It was the Romans who gave the city its first bridge across the Thames and its first paved roadways. This book tells the story of London’s roads and bridges and the vehicles that used them. For centuries, transport meant horse drawn vehicles, from lumbering waggons to elegant carriages and the city had a flourishing industry, building carriages. The Industrial Revolution brought major changes, not least in the construction of more and more bridges over the Thames. In the 19th century a new system appeared with the arrival of the railways, and the many stations that are such prominent features of the cityscape. The story continues into the 20th century, when, for a time, the city was also home to some pioneering motor car manufacturers, such as Vauxhall. It comes nearer our time with the construction of the underground railway and the driverless trains of the Dockland Light Railway. Londoners will have a chance to find out just how travel around the city has changed in the last two thousand years.
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2019-09
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9781916045316
Author : Mark Ovenden
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : 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.
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Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
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Author : Nick Cooper
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445622173
The first in a three part series of books on London transport during the Second World War - The Underground, Railways and Buses. Nick Cooper explores the impact of the war upon the running of the Underground and the role it played in so many people's lives.
Author : David Long
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0752462369
Did You Know? In 1884 the Circle Line opened and was described in The Times as 'a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.' According to one psychologist, Tube commuters can experience greater levels of stress than a police officer facing a rioting mob or even a fighter pilot going into a dogfight. Underground trains have only twice been used to transport deceased people in coffins: William Gladstone and Dr Barnardo. Some of the most bizarre items handed in to lost property include 250lb of sultanas, a 14ft canoe, a child's garden slide, a harpoon gun, a pith helmet, an artificial leg, someone's brother's ashes and a sealed box containing three dead bats. WITH well over a billion passengers a year, more than 250 miles of track, literally hundreds of different stations and a history stretching back at least 160 years, the world's oldest underground railway might seem familiar, but how well do you actually know it? This book offers a feast of Tube-based trivia for travellers and lovers of London alike.
