London Underground Guide

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London Underground trains run from 5am to midnight Monday to Saturday, with a reduced service on Sundays. As with most public transport systems, there is a rush hour in the morning as people travel into the city to work, and another in the evening when workers return home. The tube system gets extremely busy at rush hour, so you may want to avoid travelling during this period, unless you enjoy the hustle and bustle of the experience. It is worth noting that should you decide to brave rush hour, you might not only struggle to get a seat, you might have to wait for several trains to pass before you can get on to a train at all.

Maps of the tube system are available at most stations. The tube system, particularly in the central part of London, does tend to remain busy during most of the day. Like many major cities in built-up areas, it is a good idea to keep firm hold of your valuables as pickpockets are known to operate on the tube system, particularly in areas popular with tourists and during busy periods.
London Underground Tube Delays in RSS! | :Ben Metcalfe Blog - I've finally got round to building an RSS feed of delays on the London Underground. The data is coming straight off the official TfL website, so hopefully there should be as little latency as possible. I was going to parse either the BBC page or the TfL PDA/Wap site (which is powered by a 3rd party, Kizoom), but this would have introduced an unnecessary middleman and further delay the timeliness of the data.
Accessible underground | Neil Turner's Blog - Recently, maps of the London Underground have been including details of stations which are accessible to wheelchair users either those with street-level exits or lifts in addition to stairs or escalators. If you look at the map, you'll see that the vast majority of stations are not accessible to wheelchair users, including some of the big ones like King's Cross. In fact the only line where all stations are accessible is the Docklands Light Railway, but then this is a comparitively recent line.
Airminded · From Whitehall to Green Park - 28 November 2007 in Pictures, Travel 2007 by Brett Holman | 14 comments This post relates to my trip to Europe in July-September 2007. At the end of August, I spent a day and a half at the offices of the Air League, which very graciously had allowed me access to their archives. Their address on Tothill Street is not far from Buckingham Palace, which I hadn't yet seen.
Book Review: Transit Maps of the World | ITE @ GT - The map below has been floating around the web recently, and I realized it came from a book I've had on my desk for two years now: Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden. Ovenden's book, published in 2007, details the history of transit maps in each city with a metro system. The book starts off in the world's oldest and largest systems (New York, Tokyo, Paris, London) and moves into the more recent systems that only have a small history of transit maps and few metro lines to speak of.
Submissions Wanted For London Underground Display | Londonist - London Underground is a great place for art impromptu performance art, educational text-based displays, satirical artistic responses to political situations there are Poems on the Underground, musicians, performers If you've ever wanted to contribute your artwork to this sprawling world of underground artistic expression and fancy having a go in a medium a little more sophisticated than sticking chewing gum over the eyes of models in adverts running alongside escalators, then get clicking on the Art Below website. Art Below is an organisation that brings original artworks onto London Underground. Previous campaigns have involved turning Knightsbridge station into an art gallery complete with private view and placing new artworks right across the underground network in place of adverts.