London Underground

The theme for this weekend in the classical world is: Singers We Should Like, But Which Recent Press Coverage Has Made Us Skeptical Of. Exhibit one: Xerxes at the ENO, which was supposed to open on Wednesday until it the whole show was cancelled due …

The tube can take you to most places (except Hackney, Peterborough and Wales) but can it bring you love? Is it the place to meet The One? Will you find your soulmate on Platform Three Southbound via Bank? Ah, the romantics amongst us would say …

Just a quick post to say, if you haven’t seen part one of Annie Mole’s Little Known London Underground Pictures posts on the London Underground blog then you’re missing out. Her shots of the the Hitchcock mosaics at Leytonstone Tube are just amazing and Annie’s …

As you probably know by now, the Northern Line is closed today after the Unions called for the trains to be withdrawn due to safety concerns. The whole thing came to a head last night after a train’s emergency brakes failed (despite the high-tech rope-based …

Since a brakes scare last week the Northern Line has been pretty much crippled with almost constant ‘severe delays’ and crowded, interminable waits for anyone using it. The problems began when LU were forced to double-up drivers on the Northern Line trains after four (count …

George Romero’s back and he brought some old friends with him. Land of the Dead is finally released in the UK after a ridiculously long wait compared to our American cousins. Londonist already reviewed the thing last month, but now the big boys have turned …

Last week Londonist received the kind of email from a guy called Tom Marlow. It was the kind of email we dream about receiving: Last year me and a friend cycled to every London Underground station over six days, including DLR and disused and abandoned …

Remember Freedom Bags? We had a post on them not so long ago, where we basically wrote them off as a not very good idea. In case you don’t remember, the basic idea of Freedom Bags was to produce transparent rucksacks which commuters could use …

Amersham tube station probably doesn’t normally see that much business at 5 in the morning, so it may have come as a bit of surprise earlier today when 65 people turned up to begin their journey for Tube Relief. Tube Relief was organised by Geoff …

Earlier this week the BBC printed this piece of writing by Geoff Ryman. Ryman is the author of 253, a fantastic piece of fiction about the relationship between all the passengers on a single tube train. The article on the BBC encapsulated Ryman’s views on …