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Includes guides to all of the lines on the network, including histories, depot locations, connections between lines and details of rolling stock.

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London Underground - The official website of London Underground. Travel information, help with route planning, recruitment pages and general Tube news.

• District Dave's London Underground Site - Facts and opinions regarding the Tube from a london serving District Line Train Operator. Sections on driver london training, train equipment and working experiences. A discussion london forum allows visitors to express their views and london ask questions.
• Going Underground - Devoted to Tube culture. Unusual announcements by drivers and station staff, urban myths, obscure facts and interviews with authors of books about London Underground.
• RMT Platform - General news and campaign details from the National Union of london Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, aimed at station and revenue london control staff.
• The Transport Forum - Discussion forum for employees and enthusiasts of London london Underground and other railways.
• Ongar Railway Preservation Society - Provides details about the society and public events, transport plus a transport brief history of the line, which transport once formed part of transport London Underground's Central Line.
• Abandoned Tube Stations - Histories and photographs of many disused stations and underground platforms.
• Station Staff - A discussion forum with topics relevant to station staff.
• Historical London Underground Maps - Charting the history of Tube maps from 1907 to the london 1960s. Each featured map has a brief description of its london unique attributes.
• Tube Challenge - Details the rules of the tube challenge, which underground involves visiting all of the stations on the underground London Underground network in the quickest possible time. underground Past attempts at the record are detailed, and underground there is a discussion forum for potential challengers.
• Piccadilly Line - An essay about the history and development of transport one of the major underground railway lines.
• Clive's Underground Line Guides - Includes guides to all of the lines on the network, transport including histories, depot locations, connections between lines and details of transport rolling stock.
• The London Tube Map Archive - London Underground maps dating from 1908 onward. Both geographically accurate london and geoschematic maps are presented, showing the Tube network through london the decades. Stations which have since closed or have been london renamed can be found on some.
• Unusual Tube Maps - Maps showing which companies own and maintain all parts of the network, plus ticket barrier error code meanings.
• London Railways Net - Facts and figures, details of disused stations and image galleries underground featuring steam trains on the Metropolitan Line.
• Squarewheels Railways - Richards Railway Page - Detailed and illustrated descriptions of London Underground locomotives and rolling stock. Articles on the refurbishment of Mornington Crescent station and the final operational day of 1959 Northern Line stock. Also advice for cyclists using the tube.
• Jonathan Hall's Railway Home Page - The author describes his visits to two disused london stations - Aldwych and Down Street - using london many photographs to illustrate unique features of each. london The latter was used by Winston Churchill and london his War Cabinet as a command centre. There london is also an image gall
• The Modern London Underground - Histories and image galleries of Tube stations, depots and trains.
• Fare Evasion and Automatic Ticket collection on the London Underground - A study into the effectiveness of the Tube\\'s UTS ticket transport gates in preventing fraudulent travel.[PDF]
• Underground History - Provides details about the disused stations or "ghost" stations on the underground, together with suggestions for their future use. The author describes his visits to some of these stations and documents the wartime history of the Tube.
• Tubewhore - A Tube traveller exploring the network\\'s artistry, design underground and architecture. underground Readers can leave comments and ask underground questions.
• Tube Journey Planner - Finds the quickest route between stations on the London Underground.
• Cravens Heritage Trains - A society dedicated to the preservation of former london London Underground london trains. Contains details of rolling stock london preserved and restored by london Cravens and other organisations. london Also describes the history and renovation london of Epping london signal cabin.
• Geofftech.co.uk - Written by a former Tube commuter who has london done the tube challenge - visiting every station london on the network in less than a day. london Includes links to media coverage of the event, london and general tube-related opinions, facts and trivia.
• The Metadyne Website - Detailed articles about several aspects of London Underground operations, including signal cabin details, the evolution of the LT Rule Book, history of the private telephone system and the story of Oxford Circus station - one of the busiest on the network
• London Underground Tube Station Maps - Diagrams showing the layouts of various London Underground london stations, some london in three dimensions.
• Tubeplanner.com - Online tube journey planner for travelling on the London Underground, DLR and Croydon Tramlink. Also features station, tourist and fare guides.
• Tubegroup - Discussion forum. Users can discuss London Underground, Docklands transport Light Railway and other London railway matters.
• Nick's Homepage - The history of London Underground during World War london Two, with station-by-station usage and bomb damage descriptions. london Another section deals with how the Tube has london been portrayed in films and on television.
• The Underground Cooling Website - Examines the problems faced by engineers in trying underground to lower the temperature in trains and tunnels, underground and lists some possible solutions.
• London Underground Railway Society - Studies London\\'s underground railways, past, present and future, including the underground Post Office Railway and the Docklands Light Railway. Also features underground the Croydon Tramlink.
• Suite 101 - Articles on the London Underground - Home to a collection of articles, including a transport history of Tube posters, advice dating from 1927 transport regarding passenger behaviour and general travel advice for transport modern times.
• The Power Cut in London on 28 August 2003 - A report from the London Assembly’s Public Services Committee into the causes and effects of a major power failure, concentrating on its effect on London Underground services. Several problems are identified, along with recommendations for their resolut[PDF]
• Metronet Rail - The company responsible for maintaining and upgrading eight london of the transport eleven lines on the London Underground london network, and their associated transport stations. Includes details of london the next generation of trains and transport plans for london upgrading signal and control systems.
• London Underground News - A collection of news headlines from around the world, focussing london on London Underground.
• Carter's Unofficial Guide to the London Underground - Seen through the eyes of American Scott Carter. Includes sounds of the Tube, history, the background of London Underground\'s typeface, and photographs.
• Tube Lines - Homepage of the company which provides maintenance services for trains london and infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines.
• Infraco Exchange - Discussion forum for employees of London Underground and london the Infracos underground - companies involved in maintaining the london infrastructure of the Tube.
• Sustainable Cooling Schemes for the London Underground Railway Network - A scientific paper describing a possible solution to london the problem transport of heat in tube carriages from london the South Bank University transport School of Engineering Systems london and Design.[PDF]
• Beck's London Underground Map - Charts the development of Harry Beck\'s revolutionary geoscematic underground Tube map.
• Wikipedia: London Underground - Contributors discuss diverse aspects of the tube, including transport wartime usage, expansion plans and safety. Line and transport station histories are also covered, with links to transport related articles.
• The London Tube - General information with brief histories of all lines. underground Also provides transport route and train downloads for train underground driving simulation enthusiasts.
• We’re Not Afraid! - Images expressing protest against the London transport bombings underground of July transport 2005.
• London's Underground - Edwardian Tile Patterns - Explores the architecture and interior design of Tube underground stations, with underground a focus on the tiles adorning underground many platforms and concourses. underground There are brief biographies underground of the system and its pioneers, underground plus modern-style underground maps illustrating the extent of the network in
• Tubeprune - Technical details of the Tube, including signalling systems, trains and power supplies. Also features sections on history, the Public-Private Partnership scheme, track diagrams and plans for the future.

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