About the London Underground

Marina Lystseva aka fotografersha writes: “A few days ago, the London Underground turned 151 years old. I didn’t celebrate the anniversary, but here I collected my metro photos from several trips over 10 years.”

(Total 54 photos)

Source: JJournal/fotografersha

1. On January 10, 1863, for the first time in the world, an underground train movement called the underground was launched in London, and 141 years after the opening, I also visited here

2. Should I take the metro or catch a taxi? The answer is obvious - in the pipe! Tube is what Londoners call the subway.

3. To date, its length is more than 400 km and has 275 stations.

4. While not at every station you can find an escalator or an elevator, but their number is slowly growing in connection with the program to facilitate access to the metro for the disabled.

5. The city is divided into 6 zones and the cheapest trip inside the 1st zone will cost one and a half pounds (~ 80 rubles) if you pay in cash, and two times cheaper if you purchase an Oyster travel card, putting a certain amount on it and supplementing it with as needed.

6. At the entrance, do not forget to touch the card to the reader, otherwise they promise to withdraw money at the maximum rate.

7. Stand on the right, pass on the left - the inscriptions tell us.

8. When there is no one, people take the right lane out of habit.

9. Your advertisement could be here.

10. At first, I could not get used to the London dudes, and strove to take pictures of everyone.

11. Vintage girl.

12. Each metro line on the diagram and on the signs is marked with a certain color. Even without knowing English, you can guess where to go - navigation here is simply fantastic in terms of simplicity and convenience.

13. MIND THE GAP - literally "Beware of the gap!" In other words, move further away from the edge of the platform. Do you see the yellow line? - be afraid! I have a T-shirt with this famous slogan.

14. We observe a dotted tile for the blind at the edge of the platform. The previous photo is just guides.

15. You will not find trash cans at the stations - after the terrorist attacks of 2005, please take your garbage with you and in no case leave your luggage unattended.

16. I like that the monitor shows the arrival time of the next train. If only we could introduce this into the subway!

17. Tube is open daily from 5:30, and on Sundays from 7:00. The last train leaves at 23:30-0:30, depending on the station and the day of the week. Somehow I boarded the last train without looking at the name of the terminal station on its face and left a little in the other direction - the northern black line forks in the second zone. A five-minute taxi ride cost ten.

18. It happens that this or that station is closed for maintenance, but at the entrance you can always find an announcement about its work schedule. Often, on a special board, they write with chalk what hours it will open.

19. An example of a correct tile for the blind.

20. On the TfL metro map, stations equipped with lifts for people in wheelchairs are marked with a special icon.

21. The first trains 150 years ago were powered by steam locomotives and because of the smoke and poor ventilation in the subway it was difficult to breathe. And yet they smoked!

22. The button for opening the door in the car.

23. The seats in the carriages have fabric covers such as synthetic velor, they look very homely and so you want to lie down on them.

24. They just rub off quickly and you can see them shiny in places.

25. Give way to someone who needs it more.

26. About the beautiful.

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28. And there is always some kind of funny advertisement hanging here.

29. And funny little men move.

30. We transfer for travel !!!

31. And the girls have beautiful eyes. An eye, to be exact.

32. In the car, the seats are located opposite each other, but standing in the middle is not very convenient - there is not enough space.

33. Here the girl is comfortably seated, but you can see how the passage narrows due to the legs of those sitting.

34. On both sides, above the passengers, a running line with information about the nearest station and a mandatory line diagram and a general metro plan.

35. At rush hour, they somehow calmly break.

36. Floors in a new car with a hint of tactile tiles.

37. On a special diagram, you can see stations with free wi-fi.

38. But it's better to take a free minute and take a nap.

39. Tube has 11 lines. The very first of them - shallow - dug in a trench way. A ditch up to 10 m deep was dug out, railway tracks were laid on its bottom, then arched brick vaults were erected over them and the ditch was filled up.

40. The first line of the Metropolitan subway (hence, in fact, the name came from) had only 7 stations over a length of six kilometers - from Paddinton Station to Farringdon Street. The color of the line in the diagram is lilac.

41. Baker Street station is one of the seven.

42. Now at Baker Street you can change to four more lines - yellow, pink, brown and gray.

43. Design of the station. And how would designers implement it now, given the ban on smoking propaganda and Sherlock's nicotine patch?

44. Charing Cross is four stops from Baker Street on the brown Bakerloo. Remember Dr. Mortimer's gift from Charingcross Hospital? It's here.

45. Some stations look impressive. Remind me what it is? Not "London Bridge" for an hour?

46. Where is this tile?

47. My favorite area.

48. Sale of everything.

49. If the train does not go further, then these beautiful people in bright vests will be asked to free the cars.

50. And in the subway there are inspectors in civilian clothes with a portable ticket reader. The fine is something like 50 pounds. Specify plz.

51. Flew!

52. Old stations in cute tiles.

53. Tell me something else.

54. The next station is Oxford Circus. Let's go!