Underground, Overground

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Underground, Overground

A Passenger's History of the Tube

Social and cultural history

Author: Andrew Martin

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Language: English

Published by: Profile Books

Published on: 26th April 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781847658074


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The London Underground

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.

Underground, Overground

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 fifty-five per cent overground). Underground, Overground is a highly enjoyable, witty and informative history of everything you need to know about the Tube.

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