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Policing Controversy by Sir Ian Blair Book reviewFor Blair, that moment arrived just five months into the job, in July 2005, when Islamic extremists launched two sets of bomb attacks on the London underground. The attack on 7 July killed 52 people and injured hundreds of others, but it... In this article: Ian Blair, Stockwell, Islamic, Metropolitan Police, London Underground, Boris Johnson, and Brian Paddick |
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Daily Mail | 1 day ago
AMANDA PLATELL: The widow who showed Britain how to mourn
...she was the person who authorised her elite officers to pump 11 bullets into the body of an innocent man at pointblank range on a crowded London Tube in broad daylight. Seldom has the 'helpless female' card been played so disgracefully.
In this article: Peter Andre, Christine Bleakley, Susan Boyle, Cressida Dick, Prince Charles, Frank Lampard, Britain, and Katie Price
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The Bergen Record | 3 days ago
Three cheers for teatime
...read: "Congratulations, chap, you've found the Gent's Room." Not to mention, the piped in recordings of "Mind the Gap" throughout the London Underground (subway system) reminding commuters to be careful of the small gaps between the subway...
In this article: Sandwich, London, Clotted cream, Apple juice, Caffeine, Sugar, and Starbucks
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BBC News | 4 days ago
No anthrax found at Tube station
Transport for London said there was no risk to the public Building materials sent for testing after being uncovered during work at a west London Tube station did not contain any trace of anthrax. Bob Crown of the Rail and Maritime...
In this article: Transport for London
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | 4 days ago
Tube station 'should be closed due to anthrax risk' claims Bob Crow
...tested, the area had been boarded up and secured and staff had been told not to enter, said Mr Crow. The union leader said in an email to London Underground (LU): ''I have seen the email regarding the possible anthrax and asbestos...
In this article: Transport for London
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Jubilee Line faces more closures
...supposed to have finished the upgrade by December. Tube Lines said 95% of the work had been done but that reliability testing was needed. London Underground has the final say on closure schedules. The line has been affected by closure in...
In this article: Tube Lines, Bechtel, Boris Johnson, London, and UK
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 5 days ago
Union warns over tube overtime in pay row
Union leaders will today consider calling an overtime ban among engineering and electrical workers on London Underground in a row over pay, which they warned would disrupt services. Officials from Unite will meet to decide their next move...
In this article: Inflation, Rail Maritime and Transport Union, and London
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Tube Lines chief executive Dean Finch admits it will miss Jubilee Line deadline and faces GBP100m bill
...to Stratford to increase daily passenger capacity by 200,000 from the existing 600,000 Photo: Getty Images Mr Finch, who joined the London Underground maintenance contractor in May, said that unless the company was allowed to close...
In this article: Tube Lines, Project management, Transport for London, Bechtel, Ferrovial, and US
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Guardian | 6 days ago
London tube unions raise spectre of Christmas strikes
Unite and RMT considering action over two-year pay offer A London Underground tube sign outside King's Cross St Pancras station in London. Photograph: Paul Owen. Photograph: Paul Owen/guardian.co.uk The spectre of industrial action on...
In this article: Boris Johnson, London, Inflation, and Transport for London
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Jubilee Line upgrade will cost GBP100m more and overrun by almost a year
...GBP100m a concern to the company. Jubilee Line upgrade will cost �100m more and overrun by almost a year Dean Finch, who joined the London Underground maintenance contractor in May, said that unless the company was allowed to close the line...
In this article: Tube Lines, Project management, Bechtel, Ferrovial, US, and Spain
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Singing for Coke
Coca-Cola is sponsoring the London Underground licensed busking scheme "Ain't singin' for Pepsi, ain't singin' for Coke. I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke." So sang Neil Young on the title track of his 1988 album This...
In this article: Coca-Cola, Facebook, Unilever, In the Air Tonight, Volkswagen, YouTube, and Craigslist
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The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK. The first section opened in 1863, and was the first underground railway system in the world, and, starting in 1890, it was also the first to operate electric trains. It is usually referred to as the Underground or the Tube—the latter deriving from the shape of the system's deep-bore tunnels—although about 55% of the network is above ground.
The earlier lines of the present London Underground network were built by various private companies. Apart from the main line railways, they became part of an integrated transport system in 1933 when the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) or "London Transport" was created. The underground network became a single entity in 1985, when the UK government created London Underground Limited (LUL). Since 2003 LUL has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London (TfL), the statutory corporation responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London, which is run by a board and a commissioner appointed by the Mayor of London.
The Underground has 270 stations and about 400 km (250 miles) of track, making it the longest metro system in the world by route length. It also has one of the highest number of stations. In 2007, more than one billion passenger journeys were recorded, making it the third busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow and Paris.
The tube map, with its schematic non-geographical layout and colour-coded lines, is considered a design classic, and many other transport maps worldwide have been influenced by it.
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