* London Underground anagram map

This department had been created by the museum to address objects in the collection that had begun to rapidly deteriorate as a result of being stored in the London Underground tunnels during the First World War.

In addition, some cities have separate rail-based mass transit systems ( including the extensive and historic London Underground ).

* A statue stands outside Malvern Court, south of South Kensington Underground Station, and just north of 7 Sydney Place, where he stayed when performing in London.

Tramlink serves seven National Rail stations and has one interchange with the London Underground, at Wimbledon station for the District Line, and one with London Overground, at West Croydon for the East London Line ; one of the factors leading to its creation was that the area around Croydon has no Underground service.

Beck's London Underground map is an iconic example.

The Jubilee line of the London Underground opened in 1979 from to as the first stage of an intended cross-town tube line beyond Charing Cross to south-east London.

One early example includes the anarcho-punk band Crass, who conducted a campaign of stenciling anti-war, anarchist, feminist and anti-consumerist messages around the London Underground system during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The signage in the London Underground is a classic design example of the modern era and used a typeface designed by Edward Johnston in 1916.

More than 50 were killed and 750 injured in three bombings on London Underground and another aboard a double decker bus near Russell Square in King's Cross.

Oyster cards ( the ticket-free system for London Underground ) are now given with wallets sponsored by IKEA who also sponsor the tube map.

* 1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.

The London Underground ( often shortened to the Underground ) is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom, serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.

The earlier lines of the present London Underground network were built by various private companies.

The underground network became a separate entity in 1985, when the UK Government created London Underground Limited ( LUL ).

The Bank's headquarters has been located in London's main financial district, the City of London, on Threadneedle Street, since 1734.

( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.

She released her second live DVD and album, Live From London in October 2009, which was filmed during her sold out 2008 concerts at London's O2 Arena.

Between 1960 and 1980, all of London's docks were closed, leaving around eight square miles ( 21 km² ) of derelict land in East London.

Orwell's investigation of poverty in The Road to Wigan Pier strongly resembles that of Jack London's The People of the Abyss, in which the American journalist disguises himself as an out-of-work sailor in order to investigate the lives of the poor in London.

Heathrow is London's main airport, having replaced RAF Northolt, and together with Gatwick, Southend, Stansted, Luton and London City, London is the busiest city airport system in the world by passenger traffic ( with 133, 666, 888 passengers travelling through the six airports ); and second only to New York City in terms of traffic movements.

In the 1980s, American and European dancers from California, New York, London and Sweden ( such as Sylvia Sykes, Erin Stevens, Steven Mitchell, Terry Monaghan and Warren Heyes who formed London's Jiving Lindy Hoppers performance troupe, and Stockholm's Rhythm Hot Shots / Harlem Hot Shots ) went about ' reviving ' Lindy Hop using archival films such as Hellzapoppin ' and A Day at the Races and by contacting dancers such as Frankie Manning, Al Minns, Norma Miller, Jewel McGowan and Dean Collins.

Foster + Partners submitted a plan for a 385 metre tall skyscraper, the London Millenium Tower, but its height was seen as excessive for London's skyline.

* 1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.

On September 20 – 21, the 100 Club Punk Festival in London featured the four primary British groups ( London's big three and the Buzzcocks ), as well as Paris's female-fronted Stinky Toys, arguably the first punk rock band from a non-Anglophone country.

* Phoenix Theatre ( London ), a theatre in London's West End

Heitler and London's method was extended by the American theoretical physicist John C. Slater and the American theoretical chemist Linus Pauling to become the Valence-Bond ( VB ) Heitler – London – Slater – Pauling ( HLSP ) method.

The Tube map is a schematic transit map representing the lines and stations of London's rapid transit railway systems, namely the London Underground ( commonly known as the Tube, hence the name ), the Docklands Light Railway, London Overground and the Emirates Air Line cable car.

* London Underground, responsible for running London's underground rail network, commonly known as the tube, and managing the provision of maintenance services by the private sector.

** London Trams, responsible for managing London's tram network, by contracting to private sector operators.

** London Streets, responsible for the management of London's strategic road network.

TfL owns and operates the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, a museum that conserves and explains London's transport heritage.

Recent linguistic research suggests that today, certain elements of Cockney English are declining in usage within the East End of London and the accent has migrated to Outer London and the Home Counties: in London's East End, some traditional features of Cockney have been displaced by a Jamaican Creole-influenced variety popular among young Londoners ( sometimes referred to as " Jafaican "), particularly, though far from exclusively, those of Afro-Caribbean descent.

A July 2010 report by Paul Kerswill, Professor of Sociolinguistics at Lancaster University, called Multicultural London English: the emergence, acquisition and diffusion of a new variety, claimed that the Cockney accent will disappear from London's streets within 30 years.

* London 2012-New postmark kicks off 2012 day in London ( backing London's bid to host 2012 Olympics )

The Lord Mayor is a member of the City of London's governing body, the City of London Corporation ( incorporated as The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London ).

The River Effra | Effra is one of the subterranean river s of London.

The subterranean or underground rivers of London are the tributaries of the River Thames and River Lea that were built over during the growth of the metropolis of London.

The subterranean rivers of London are mentioned in several novels, including Thrones, Dominations ( by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh ), where a character remarks " You can bury them deep under, sir ; you can bind them in tunnels, ... but in the end where a river has been, a river will always be.

A London subterranean river, used as a sewer, is visited briefly in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

The metropolis of London has been occupied for millennia, and has over that time acquired a large number of subterranean structures.

As the city developed from a cluster of villages, many of the existing rivers were buried or canalized: see subterranean rivers of London.

* Trench, R. and Hillman, E. ( 1993 ) London Under London: A subterranean guide, second revised edition, London: John Murray, ISBN 0-7195-5288-5.

In the detective novel " Thrones, Dominations ", set in 1936 London, Lord Peter Wimsey and Police Superintendent Charles Parker descend into the Fleet and nearby subterranean rivers, in search of the body of a murder victim-and barely escape drowning when a sudden heavy rain causes a flood underground.

The River Effra | Effra is one of the subterranean rivers of London.

* The Fleet and other subterranean rivers of London

The subterranean rivers of London feature in e. g. the novel " Drowning Man " by Michael Robotham as well as in the novel Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh in which a character remarks:

The Central London Railway ( CLR ) opened its subterranean Shepherd's Bush station in 1900, with its entrance overlooking Shepherd's Bush Green, next to the MR's Uxbridge Road station.

* River Fleet, subterranean river in London, England

Built in the late 1950s in response to the increasing threat of nuclear warfare during the Cold War, the 35-acre subterranean site was designed to be the main emergency government war headquarters of the UK outside of London and safely house up to 4, 000 central government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike.

The River Westbourne, one of Subterranean rivers of London | London's many subterranean rivers, flows above the station in a large grey iron conduit.

Walbrook is the name of a ward, a street and a subterranean river in the City of London.

It links Holborn, via Holborn Circus, with Newgate Street in the City of London, passing over Farringdon Street and the subterranean River Fleet.

Inaugurated on January 17, 1875, the Tünel is the second-oldest subterranean urban rail line in the world after the London Underground ( 1863 ), and the first subterranean urban rail line in continental Europe ; though the first full subway line with multiple underground stations in continental Europe was Line 1 of the Budapest Metro ( 1896 ).

* The Rotundas, a subterranean structure in Marsham Street in London.

The Warheads base of operations was Mys-Tech's subterranean headquarters deep beneath the Museum of Pagan Antiquities, Canary Wharf, London, England and they travelled to other planets, time periods, locations or dimensions by means of unstable wormholes opened by Mys-Tech's techno-wizards.