Why a Booktrail?
What is the real underground?
London Underground’s Strangest Tales
Why a Booktrail?
What is the real underground?
What you need to know before your trail
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of London’s Underground, or as it is affectionately referred to, the Tube. Though this isn’t the usual side of the Tube the tourists, travellers and residents see. (Though, of course, they do see a great deal of strangeness in their daily commutes!). This is the real Underground, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of what happens hundreds of metres below millions of London legs – from its peculiar past through to its paranormal present and looking forward to its fascinating future.
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Located deep beneath the heart of Greater London, the Underground is awash with more strangeness than you can shake your pre-paid Oyster card at. In 2013 the whole city celebrated the Underground’s 150th birthday – the oldest underground in the world.
So, pack up your old kit bag and travel stop-by-stop with us on this strange and fantastic journey along the Northern, Picadilly, Metropolitan, Jubilee, Hammersmith and City and District Line …and explore the Underground as you’ve never seen it before. London Underground’s Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the humorous, the odd and the baffling – an alternative travel guide to the Underground’s best-kept secrets.
Just some of the secrets in and not in this book!
Interesting facts about the tube to make this book even more fascinating!
Many tube stations were used as air-raid shelters during the Second World War
The Central Line was converted into a fighter aircraft factory The fact that this even existed remained an official secret until the 1980s.
Want to go to middle Earth? Well the closest you’re going to get is in the Hampstead station on the Northern line and you’ll be going down to 58.5 metres.
Not so keen to go that far down? Try Stratford as it’s not half as deep and has the shortest escalator on the tube network
Think you’ve seen a few rats on the network? Head to Aldgate Station, on the Circle and Metropolitan Lines, this is actually built on a massive plague pit, where more than 1,000 bodies are buried.
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C) London - Aldgate Station - the plague pit?
E) London - Earl's Court and the Tardis
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Destination : London Author/Guide: Iain Spragg Departure Time: 2000s
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