Savage Rush
David Trotter: The Tube, 21 October 2010
Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf
by David Welsh.
Liverpool, 306 pp., £70, May 2010,978 1 84631 223 6 Show More
by David Welsh.
Liverpool, 306 pp., £70, May 2010,
“... to Farringdon. The line was built by the cut-and-cover method, which involved digging a large trench down the middle of the Euston and Pentonville Roads. Ingenious arrangements had been made to capture the exhaust steam generated by the tank engines, but not the dense, sulphurous smoke billowing infernally from their funnels. The Metropolitan opened for ... ”