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The Great Detective

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 8 Feb 17

Baker Street, being home to the Great Detective, it will be no great surprise that the motif on the Tube Station platforms is the man himself. The photo shows the Bakerloo platform, where the tiles have miniatures of the classic...

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British Museum, Change Here

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 1 Feb 17

Holborn gets its name from the old English 'holh' meaning hollow and 'burna' meaning stream. The station standing close to where the, now subterranean, River Fleet flows to the Thames. In 1933 the British Museum station closed...

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Sisters and Stars

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 31 Jan 17

Seven Sisters Underground and Overground station sits on Seven Sisters Road, north London. The road gets its name, strangely enough, from seven sisters, who before going their separate ways each planted an Elm tree outside a...

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Heritage Underground

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 28 Nov 16

Many London's Underground Stations have clues to the their own as well as local history and events. At South Kensington, on the Piccadilly Line platforms, are tile murals of animals. On the west bound platform are extinct...

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Underground Rail Rat

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 12 Apr 16

If you have spent any amount of time on London Underground you will have seen some of the system's resident population of rodents. Mostly it will be the dark coloured mice scurrying back and forth hunting for food scraps, but...

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Indoor Underground Station

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 29 Mar 16

A later feature of training on the Underground was working 'trackside' at West Ashfield station. You will not find this station on a map of the Underground, as it lives on the 6th floor (I think) of the training centre. On this...

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Learning Underground

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 27 Mar 16

Way back in the last century I joined London Underground. After getting my LU mug, it was off to training school for several weeks. Dealing with heavy and fairly fast moving trains, not to mention electric rails at just the right...

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Being a slave to the Fitbit - and an explanation of what it is for those who've never heard of it.

Boingboing @boiboing (13147) • Northampton, England 27 Oct 15

It's funny that something can become an important part of your life yet a large part of the population have no idea what it is. Think about MyLot for example; how many of us spend every spare moment on here but our friends and...

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I have walked the length of the London Underground

Boingboing @boiboing (13147) • Northampton, England 26 Oct 15

I have been using my Fitbit activity tracker for just over 10 weeks and I find it totally addictive. When I first started using it, it would tell me I'd achieved something note-worthy every few days. But quite quickly the bars get...

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Are the Underground Safe From Terrorism in the UK?

kurtdon @kurtdon (143) • Malta 24 Jan 07

Is it safe to travel with the tube station in London?

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Do you like London Underground?

callraheel @callraheel (149) 5 Jan 07

Well i love london underground, its too fast, Every two minutes you will see a train on most underground platforms incase there are no delays. Sometimes delays can be annoying but still the way this system is working really...

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