Underground to Everywhere: London's Underground Railway in the Life of the Capital

by Stephen Halliday

Overview

Halliday describes its designers as well as the historical role it has played in London.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780752497723
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Stephen Halliday is the author of The Great Filth and Newgate.

Table of Contents

Foreword Maxwell Hutchinson v

Acknowledgements ix

Prologue xi

Chronology xiii

Introduction: Early Days and False Starts 1

1 Terminal Connections 14

2 Down the Tubes 46

3 The American Connection 71

4 The First Baron Ashfield: Underground to Anywhere 94

5 Metroland and its Family 117

6 Lorenzo the Magnificent: the Underground's Artistic Heritage 139

7 The Underground at War: 1914-18; 1939-45 170

8 The Post-war Underground 198

Postscript 232

Notes 234

Appendix 251

Bibliography 252

Index 257