* 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 ).

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

However, recent changes to the train timetables have been a disservice to Accrington, increasing the journey time to Preston ( a vital link to London or Scotland ) by up to 1. 5 hours.

A Southeastern ( train operating company ) | Southeastern commuter train at Slade Green railway station | Slade Green in South London | South East London, England, running a service to London Cannon Street.

* 1975 – A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

Arrival at Fort William of the overnight Caledonian Sleeper | sleeper train from London

For example, a British conservationist was seen wearing field glasses at a London train station in the 1930s and was consequently asked if he was going to the horse races.

Esther Marson-Smedley, a correspondent with the Daily Express who shared the train ride from Plymouth to London, then introduced him to Marjorie Maxse, who offered him a role in the War Office.

Gandhi and his wife Kasturba Gandhi | Kasturba ( 1902 ) In 1888, Gandhi travelled to London, England, to study law at University College London, where he studied Indian law and jurisprudence and to train as a barrister at the Inner Temple.

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

In addition to requiring all male civilians to train and serve in the militia of their Parish, the Bermudian Militia included a standing body of trained artillerymen to garrison the numerous fortifications which ringed New London ( St. George's ).

In 1960, when Richards, on his way to class at Sidcup Art College, and Jagger, on his way to class at London School of Economics, met at Dartford train station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Jagger carried revealed a mutual interest, leading to the re-establishment of their friendship and the formation of a band with Dick Taylor ( later of Pretty Things ).

The nearest train station is located in Bedhampton and is on the main train route between London and Portsmouth.

** Sentences totalling 307 years are passed on 12 men who stole £ 2. 6m in used bank notes, after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.

** A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

* June 13 – Queen Victoria becomes the first reigning British monarch to travel by train, on the Great Western Railway between Slough and London Paddington station.

He left academia several times: serving as an officer on the frontline during World War I, where he was decorated a number of times for his courage ; teaching in schools in remote Austrian villages, where he encountered controversy for hitting children when they made mistakes in mathematics ; and working during World War II as a hospital porter in London, where he told patients not to take the drugs they were prescribed, and where no-one knew he was one of the world's most famous philosophers.

For over one hundred years, Venetian mirrors installed in richly decorated frames served as luxury decorations for palaces throughout Europe, but the secret of the mercury process eventually arrived in London and Paris during the 17th century, due to industrial espionage.

Over forty-five medieval chasse reliquaries decorated in champlevé enamel showing similar scenes from Becket's life survive, including the Becket Casket in London ( V & A Museum ).

Helen of Troy ( painting ) | Helen of Troy by Evelyn de Morgan ( 1898, London ); Helen admiringly displays a lock of her hair, as she gazes into a mirror decorated with the nude Aphrodite.

As a painter, he displaced Sir James Thornhill in decorating the new state rooms at Kensington Palace, London ; for Burlington, he decorated Chiswick House and Burlington House.

Nilsson's 1970s London flat, at Flat # 12, 9 Curzon Street on the edge of Mayfair, was a two-bedroom apartment decorated by the design company that Starr and Robin Cruikshank owned at that time.

He painted a famous portrait of Thomas Coram ( 1740 ; now Foundling Museum, London ; reproduced in stipple by William Nutter for R. Cribb in 1796 ), and, together with some of his fellow artists, decorated the Governors ' Court Room, which contains paintings by Francis Hayman, Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Wilson.

He was the first British athlete to have won five Olympic gold medals, a feat surpassed only by Sir Chris Hoy at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and is the third most decorated British Olympian with six medals, after the seven of Hoy and the seven of cyclist Bradley Wiggins.

Her fortune diminished, however, and she eventually opened her London house — 48 Upper Grosvenor Street, which had been decorated for her parents in 1935 by Syrie Maugham — for paid tours.

The Christmas light displays are a London tradition dating since 1948, when the Regent Street Association decorated the street with Christmas trees.

His huge sarcophagus, carved in one piece and intricately decorated on every surface ( including the goddess Nut on the interior base ), is in Sir John Soane's Museum, in London, England ; Soane bought it for exhibition in his open collection in 1824, when the British Museum refused to pay the £ 2, 000 demanded.

In the college's chapel, itself decorated with works by Canadian artists, is an altar made of marble from parts of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, England, that were damaged in the Blitz and donated by Dean of St. Paul's Walter Robert Matthews.

In 1851, he decorated a vase, later offered by Emperor Napoleon III of France to Prince Albert, now part of the Royal Collection at St. James's Palace, London.

At the time, London costermongers ( apple sellers ) were in the habit of wearing trousers decorated at the seams with pearl buttons that had been found by market traders.

This was a lavish occasion, and his London Palace theatre was lavishly decorated, complete with some 3 million rose petals.

The Watermen of London used similar boats in the 18th Century often decorated as depicted in historical prints and pictures of the River Thames in the 17th & 18th Centuries.

The first book by Ardizzone listed by the U. S. Library of Congress is The Mediterranean: An anthology ( London: Cassell, 1935, OCLC 2891569 ), compiled by Paul Bloomfield, " decorated by Edward Ardizzone " and " each chapter preceded by illustrated half-title ".

Entrance to the London Chinatown decorated for Chinese New Year 2004

A finely decorated memorial plaque to him can be seen at the Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London.

He was decorated by King Edward in London in 1902.

She was educated at the University of Sussex and is the daughter of Ulric Cross, a former High Court judge in Trinidad, Trinidadian High Commissioner to London ( 1990-1993 ) and much decorated RAF squadron leader in World War II.

Howell is the son of Colonel Arthur Howard Eckford Howell, who lived at 5 Headford Place, London, gained the rank of Colonel in the service of the Royal Artillery and was decorated with the awards of the Territorial Decoration ( TD ) and Companion of the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) ( son of Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Alfred Russell Howell ), and wife ( m. 9 April 1931 ) Beryl Stuart Bowater, daughter of Sir Frank Henry Bowater, 1st Baronet and Ethel Anita Fryar.

The Jewish Chronicle of that time noted " a Russian Jew, trained in the schools of European science, saves the lives of helpless Hindoos and Mohammedans and is decorated by the descendant of William the Conqueror and Alfred the Great " ( Page 8 of the London Jewish Chronicle 1st June 2012 ).

The chief set of the film, the house where Farrow lives, was originally a mansion in Kensington, London, decorated in the style of Art Nouveau.