• A rare 1932 draft of Harry Beck’s first London Underground map — featuring his handwritten annotations — will be auctioned at Christie’s in London on December 11, with an estimated price of ...
The London Underground is an iconic piece of Victorian era engineering. What started in 1863 quickly became a core piece of infrastructure that would define the modern character of the British capital ...
ABC News were granted an exclusive look inside the "beating heart of London." LONDON -- Very few -- if any -- of the hundreds of thousands of Londoners who take the London Underground through ...
LONDON — For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with London, the city's Tube map is as iconic as the red buses or the black cabs. But for the past few years, there's been something not quite ...
A new exhibition staged at The Map House brings the history of the iconic London Underground to the surface. Located in Knightsbridge, Mapping the Tube: 1863–2023 charts the many evolutions of the ...
No pants? No problem. At least not in London, England, this past week when hundreds of passengers on the London Underground (a.k.a. the Tube) commuted wearing only their underwear. If this group ...
Shepherd's Bush Underground Station was opened in 1900 and was an immediate commercial success. One of the old tunnels in the station was later used as an underground shelter during World War II.
Standing on a strip-lit London Underground platform, I’m staring at the billboards across the tracks. Primary colours jump out above grimy rails. To the left is a placard for cheap holidays in the sun ...
A type of mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground has a much older origin in the Mediterranean, according to a new genetic study. The myth originated during World War II ...
What started as a small fire beneath an escalator became the deadliest blaze in London Underground history. The 1987 King’s Cross Station disaster killed 31 and forced a complete overhaul of ...
A variety of mosquito once thought to have evolved in the tunnels of the London Underground seems to have originated alongside humans thousands of years ago in the Middle East, a genetic analysis ...