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The subterranean railway : how the London Underground was built and how it changed the city forever
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ISBN: 1848872534 9781848872530 Year: 2012 Publisher: London, [England] : Atlantic Books,

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Since Victorian times, London's Underground has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital and has played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. This wide-ranging history of the Underground celebrates the vision and determination of the Victorian pioneers who conceived this revolutionary transport system and the men who tunnelled to make the Tube. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to twentieth-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right up to the present wit

Underground to everywhere : London's underground railway in the life of the capital
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ISBN: 075092585X 0752495518 Year: 2013 Publisher: Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press,

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London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital and played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. Stephen Halliday's informative, entertaining, wide-ranging history of the Underground celebrates the vision and determination of the Victorian Pioneers who conceived this revolutionary transport system. His book records the scandal, disappointments, and disasters that have punctuated the story and the careers of


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London's Underground : The Story of the Tube.
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ISBN: 0711240140 Year: 2019 Publisher: Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group UK,

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The London Underground serial killer
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ISBN: 1473858291 Year: 2015 Publisher: Barnsley, England : Pen & Sword True Crime,

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Haunted London Underground.
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ISBN: 0750954078 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : The History Press,

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London's Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly stories and sightings, particularly on stations and abandoned lines, many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries ago. This chilling book reveals well-known and hitherto unpublished tales of spirits, spectres and other spooky occurrences on one fo the oldest railway networks in the world. The stories of sightings include the ghost of an actress regularly witnessed on Aldwych Station and the 'Black Nun' at Bank station. Eerie noises, such as the cries of thirteen-year-old Anne Naylor, who was murdered in

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