LONDON UNDERGROUND: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts

The pioneers, the lines, financing the Underground, management, trains and tunnels, the Underground at war, art, architecture, poetry and maths, Metroland and its family, accidents and tragedies and underground curiosities fill the pages with extraordinary facts and mini biographies, tube maps and London Transport imagery and line art. Besides achievements there are bizarre entries and strange structures built alongside the Northern Line to house the wartime government in an emergency, still there. Did you know that in 1829 the Triumph of the Rocket in the Rainhill trials established public transport of large numbers of people as a feature of the 19th century, and that Charles Yerkes, the man who did most to bring about the London Underground, was an American entrepreneur who created the Chicago 'Loop'. He was also a fraudster, a jailbird and died in debt. 144 pages, illus. New full price.