The London Traveler

A nice little video on The Times website takes us through Westminster tube station and explains some of the engineering wizardry that was needed to create the structure.
Okay, it’s a two minute video so it doesn’t go into nearly enough nerdy detail for me. If you want a more leisurely approach, there are some super pictures on the Metro-bits website.
And there is a marvellous article in the London Review of Books which analyses the architecture of each of the Jubilee Line stations – all built for the Jubilee line extension which was a Millennium project – as well as …read more

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Many aspects of English culture are planned to confuse the visitor. One of the most confusing is a game, played on the BBC radio show ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a Clue’, called ‘Mornington Crescent’.
You might know where Mornington Crescent is. It’s a tube station on the Northern Line, north of Euston.
The game involves each player naming a tube station, in turn. So it might go like this:
“Euston.”
“Morden.”
“Baron’s Court.”
“Cockfosters.”
“Mornington Crescent.”
And the first player to arrive at Mornington Crescent wins.
Now the confusing thing is the rules. There are all kinds of variants of the game. Trumpington Variations, for example. Or the Tudor …read more

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The last night of legal drinking on the Tube started yesterday as a fun cocktail party.  If you kicked of the night at 6 or 7 o’clock and had half an hour’s fun, you did well.
But in great British tradition (alas), the night ended in chaos and drunken shenanigans, with fights breaking out on the trains and six stations closed by police.
More detailed coverage from the Independent  if you can stomach it!

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