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Underground, Overground

A Passenger's History of the Tube

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An entertaining and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railway.

The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs and improvisations.Yet it transports over one billion passengers every year - and this figure is rising. It is iconic, recognised the world over, and loved and despised by Londoners in equal measure.

Blending reportage, humour and personal encounters, Andrew Martin embarks on a wonderfully engaging social history of London's underground railway system (which despite its name, is in fact 55 five per cent overground). Along the way he attempts to untangle the mess that is the Northern Line, visit every station in a single day - and find out which gaps to be especially mindful of. The London Underground is a highly enjoyable, witty and informative history of everything you need to know about the Tube.

About the Author

Andrew Martin is a journalist and novelist. He has written for the Evening Standard, the Sunday Times, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman among others. His 'Jim Stringer' series of novels based around railways are published by Faber.

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ISBN: 9781846684777
ISBN-10: 1846684773
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Published: 26th April 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.3 x 14.1  x 3.2
Weight (kg): 0.492