Today, I’m gonna take my bike
‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike
The greedy bastards want extra pay
For sitting on their arse all day!– London Underground by The Amateur Transplants
Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light Railway (DLR) and Overground in the early 1990s. The Tube – 272 stations, of which just 33 are south of the River Thames – is supported by the DLR, which opened in 1987 to make a once thriving part of the city live anew
Caledonian Road Station, Piccadilly Line, Barnsbury, Islington, 1993
Willesden Junction, Station, Harmondsworth, Brent, 1992
The London Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, which opened on 10 January 1863 as the world’s first underground passenger railway.
First opened on 31 August 1987, the DLR has been extended multiple times, giving a total route length of 24 miles. Normal operations are automated, so there is minimal staffing on the trains.
And there’s the London Overground (also known simply as the Overground and ‘The Ginger Line’), a suburban rail network serving London and its environs, with 113 stations on the six lines that make up the network.
Confusing it is. And Harry Beck’s beautiful 1933 Tube map is now part of a labyrinth of lines and symbols. The sage advice is to do as Peter Marshall did: walk.
Vauxhall, Lambeth, c. 1993
East Finchley, Barnet
Tooting Bec, Northern Line Underground Station, Wandsworth 1990
Ticket Hall Station, Fulham Broadway, Hammersmith and Fulham, 1990
Hammersmith Broadway
Stepney East Station, Tower Hamlets. 1982
Edmonton Green, Enfield, 1993
DLR Station Royal Albert Rd Cyprus, Newham, 1992
Cockfosters, Enfield, 1994
Atlantic, Road, Brixton, 1989
Bounds Green Station, Haringey, 1994
North Woolwich Station
Docklands Light Railway, Island Gardens station, Millwall, Tower Hamlets
Monument Station, 1993
John Scurr House, DLR station, Ratcliffe Lane, Limehouse Tower Hamlets, 1992
Liverpool Street
East Putney Underground, Wandsworth, 1991.
DLR Station River Thames-, Blackwall, Tower Hamlets 1994
DLR Station, Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets, 1994
DLR Custom House Station, Victoria Dock Rd, Canning Town, Newham, 1994
Dagenham Dock, Station, Ripple Rd, Dagenham, Barking & Dagenham, 1993
DLR Limehouse Station, Bekesbourne St / Ratcliffe Lane, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1992
Bow Church Station, DLR, Crossways estate, Bow, Tower Hamlets, 1988
Broad Street Station, City of London
Latimer Rd Station, Underground, Bramley Rd, Notting Hill, Kensington and Chelsea, 1988
Fulham Broadway, 1990
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