London's Underground - The Story of the Tube

Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Steam Underground
2 Deeper Underground
3 Twentieth-Century Electric
4 In to Work, Out to Live
5 Combining it All
6 War and Austerity
7 Towards a New Tube
8 Renewal
Timeline
Index
Further Reading
 

About the author

Oliver Green is a transport historian who has written widely on the history of public transport in London, and in particular on the art and design of London Transport. He is the former head curator and now research fellow at the London Transport Museum. Oliver is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), a museums advisor to Arts Council England and lectures regularly to societies and museums including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Benjamin Graham won the prestigious UK Landscape Photographer of the Year competition in 2017. He is a club-circuit lecturer, an international photo-tour leader and a residential course photography tutor at West Dean College, West Sussex. His work is inspired by the beauty of the UK’s coast, its countryside and its architecture.

Summary

Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Green
• Assisted by: Benjamin Graham (Photographer), Graham Benjamin (Photographer)
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2023
• EAN: 9780711289055
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-8905-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Illustrations: colour photos
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Rail vehicles; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; London, Greater London, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / General, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Trains & railways: general interest, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, Urban rail transit systems