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A man has raced against trains on the London Underground in a bid to get more people walking to work. Tim Don took on the tube in two challenges, a sprint against the Bakerloo line from Baker Street to Edgware Road and a 5km endurance versus the Circle Line running from Tower Hill to St. James's Park Rather than being chased along the track Tim ran overground from station to station winning the sprint...
Yesterday it felt like I could actually walk faster than a London Underground train as the Northern Line was screwed in the morning and Piccadilly Line was screwed at night. However, Olympic triathlete Tim Don was challenged to race against some Circle Line trains last week, for the launch of ASICS new shop at Argyll Street. Could he run the the 965 metres between Baker Street and Edgware Road faster...
The ads have started (on the London Underground anyway), the official site is up, all the questions have been fielded, all that was left unknown was a concrete release date for Sony Ericsson’s super smartphone, the Xperia X1. Well, thanks to CoolSmartPhone, the latest release date is said to be the 17th of October on Vodafone. [...]
Regular readers might remember hearing about a fab fat cat named Tama which was officially named Station Master at an unmanned station in the Wakayama Electric Railway in Japan. It was really popular and attracted shedloads of tourists to the station. At the time I said it was " generating a nice little earner for the Railway. " That nice little earner is now estimated by experts to be 1.1 billion...
Another follow up story as details of how to hack a smartcard used in Oyster cards have now been published online. Thanks to Pete from the Londoneer for reminding me about this. In July a Dutch court ruled that details of how to hack the card could be released in the interests of "freedom of expression laws." Earlier in the year members of Prof Bart Jacobs' team came to London to test their findings,...
After the eight month closure & some speculation last week , as to when it would actually open, the brand spanking new Shepherd's Bush London Underground Station finally re-opened over the weekend on the 4th October. Phill Price was there just before the re-opening and kindly sent the link to his Flickr stream of photos . He said " This is a one off burst of photos to show the exterior in all its glory...
Coming out of King's Cross Tube station on my way to Social Media Camp, I spotted some London Underground moquette (seat upholstery) out of the corner of my eye. You don't normally see moquette above your head like that and luckily I managed to get my camera out in time to take the picture below: He was going in the same direction as me, so at crossing I took a clearer shot of the bag . Fortunately...
Hazy Thursday & Summer Ball by Oliver Smith I’d guess that if you’ve heard of Oliver Smith it will probably be because of his tireless (and shameless) promotion of the Camden Comic Stall and London Underground Comics as he does his very best to become a nexus of London small press activity in much the same way Paul Gravett did with the Fast Fiction stall in the 80s. Frankly, if you follow UK comics...
Although the focus is on London overground trains, the London Assembly's Transport Committee are trying to find a solution to the " overcrowding that plagues many of the overground rail routes coming into the capital – especially during the morning and evening commuter rush ." Interesting that chose the word "plagues" for this announcement . Underground Gal hadn't seen anything about this survey until...
You may know him as the publicity hungry youngster responsible for the London Underground Comics Movement, but Oliver Smith also makes comics. Two of his books are reviewed at the FPI blog right now: Oliver Smith's Hazy Thursday & Summer Ball
Überrasch’ mich, London. “London Underground”, taken by Vadania, published under a CC licence. And another photo I found while searching for London on flickr. I post it here as well because I simply like it. “London Love is bigger than today”, taken by Atencion:, published under a CC licence.
Ian Blair, who was criticised as head of Scotland Yard for his handling of important cases, including the gunning down of a Brazilian national on the London Underground, has resigned.
Looks like I'll soon be able to watch some trailers for films and endless ads for Orange phones while I'm waiting for my Northern Line train at King's Cross. There's always a sure sign that London Underground cross platform advertising is coming to your station, when you notice there have been a number of weeks with really old ads, then that papier mache / collage / Tate Gallery exhibit style mess...
