Crocodile’s Breath
James Meek: The Tale of the Tube, 5 May 2005
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City For Ever
by Christian Wolmar.
Atlantic, 351 pp., £17.99, November 2004,1 84354 022 3 Show More
by Christian Wolmar.
Atlantic, 351 pp., £17.99, November 2004,
“... carriages began to be replaced with sliding doors. The iconic Underground map, designed by Harry Beck, an electrical draughtsman, in imitation of a circuit diagram (he was paid only ten guineas for his masterwork) was taken up in 1932. By 1937, when the sole Tube line to go deep into South London was renamed the Northern Line, the Underground was, in ... ”