Riding the Last Tube Home in 1990s London – A Brilliant Photo Album

 

 

After spotting the friends and lovers on the last Tube home in 1990s London, we present more faces from Mark McEvoy’s brilliant album of late-night life on the city’s Underground trains.

As before, Mark wants to know if you see yourself or someone you know in his pictures. If you were catching the last Tube home (or out) in the 1990s, please get in touch…

 

 

“These guys were running through the compartments. New Year’s Eve had just struck, so they thought: well, we’re not going to be able to make it up to Trafalgar Square, so let’s go crazy here.”

– Mark McEvoy, London Undergouond in the 1990s

 

 

“The other side of my photography is capturing these moments. This is one of my favourite pictures in a way, because I obviously didn’t ask him to sit there, and he may or may not be praying. There were a few candid ones like that; people just crashed out, maybe having a rough time.”

 

 

“I was very aware of all these different lives just passing each other, different backgrounds, ages, groups, tribes. I wanted to try to capture the variety of that: the wide range of British culture in that space at that moment.”

– Mark McEvoy

 

 

“He was drunk. As I stood up to get off, he said he wanted to be my assistant and followed me everywhere I went. He started talking to this Irish couple. I didn’t even know what they said, but within five seconds they started punching each other; it was mayhem. Then the train stopped. I just backed off the train very slowly and watched the doors close and the whole commotion disappear.”

– Mark McEvoy was on London Undeground in the 1990s

 

 

“This passenger told me he’d just moved from the States. The big reason was because he got shot in the shoulder in gang crossfire. We started talking about the difference between America and England, and he said it was getting as bad here. I guess he was feeling the London tension.”

– Mark McEvoy, Northern Line, London Underground, 1990s