When defining the Underground You might list some statistics, You might mention 249 miles of track, or 1.1 billion who ride, You might ride up the 426 escalators, and then back down again, You might stay on one Tube train, traveling 114 thousand miles one year, Might even mention the lifts, totaling 164 in all, or that there are 270 stations served, 260 stations managed, and 19,000 who help you manage When defining London’s Underground, it seems a traveler’s anthem has been

Riding the London Underground is a great introduction to the city. This article will show you how to get around, and give you some advice.

QUIRKY FACTS ABOUT THE LONDON UNDERGROUND The first escalator on the Underground was installed at Earl’s Court in 1911. A one-legged man, “Bumper” Harris, was employed to ride on it and demonstrate its safety. Unlike modern “comb” escalators, the original “shunt” mechanism ended with a diagonal so that the stairway finished sooner for the right foot than for the left. Anyone not wishing to walk on the escalator was therefore asked to stand to the right to allow others to pass

Life in London is fast-paced. You can blink and miss seeing about ten things that just happened. Seriously, this is true. As I was once told by a shopkeeper in Soho, everyone in London is tired. It’s no wonder because the day ends before you know it begins. Take a wild journey tho’ London with this fun video which shows various areas of London. The video includes St Paul’s Cathedral, numerous London Underground platforms with subway trains in motion, Piccadilly Circus, Trafal

Love and Loathe – two words that come to mind when I think of Victoria Station. Rush hour, I loathe. I’m also not fond of the construction mess around the station. Everything is torn up and it seems the construction is a perpetual project weaving the old with the new. I do love everything else including rush hour when I’m perched high above the fray inside the train station. There is an elevated area where I’ll retreat to and just watch. It’s amazing to watch the commuters zi