London Tube
The animals hidden in the London Underground map have captured the imagination of travelers, becoming a fascinating and culturally significant curiosity. Animals? What animals? You might be wondering. The Origin of the Phenomenon: An Elephant in the Tube This intriguing tradition began in 1988 when Paul Middlewick, a regular commuter, made an unexpected discovery. While […]
Safety on the London Underground combines staff support, surveillance and passengers’ own precautions. For a visitor, the most useful things are knowing how to protect belongings, whom to tell and what to do if a problem arises. Accidents, crime and health incidents are different matters: a figure about one does not describe every risk of […]
Macabre Stories in the London Underground Throughout much of the London Underground network, large mass graves dating back to the 16th century, the time of the bubonic plague or Black Death, have been discovered. During excavations for the construction of various lines such as the Bakerloo or Victoria lines, many of these graves have come […]
Classification of Curiosities This post is about curiosities of the London Underground. We have gathered so many that they might bore you. Many are the typical ones you can read everywhere, while others required a bit more documentation. We will classify the curiosities into: Statistical curiosities Historical curiosities General curiosities Macabre curiosities Funny curiosities Trivial […]
The beginning of the first urban train: the tube. To explain the origin of the London Underground we have to travel back in time to place ourselves in the Industrial Revolution. When the rural population began their exodus to the cities in search of better working conditions, they began to experience super population phenomena. London […]