Poems
not on the Underground
Find out about a book of parodies of the Poems on
the
Underground advertising which explores travelling on London Transport's buses and
tubes,
and includes the great poem "To tube or not to tube".
Ultimate London Page
Certainly one of the best sites from the London webrings I belong to. Read about the origin of London's place names, its slang, the Piccadilly Line on the Underground, and Arsenal Football Club (well it can't be perfect!). There is also an amusing tourist guide aimed at visitors from the American continent. Well worth a visit.
The Lonely Planet's London Links
If you're visiting London and want some good sites for sight-seeing, check out the links here. They reccommnded this site so that should give you advance warning of what you're letting yourself in for!!
Emmy's Underground
Page
A good
site with lots of info about the tube. Trivia, funny bits and history of the tube system.
Downloadable Tube Announcements
Versions of "Mind the Gap", "This train terminates at" and loads more tube sounds.
Carter's Unofficial
Guide
to the Underground
Another good site about the tube, this time seen through
the
eyes of American Scott Carter (Check out his holiday snapshots!). Loads of links to
sounds
of the tube. History, and some information about Frank Pick the man who was
responsible for
the London Transport's wonderful typeface.
Close approximation of London Underground's Johnston Font
If you're making a web page choose Trebuchet MS as your face font and if people have this on their browsers/PC it gives you a very close approximation to the London Underground Johnston Font - if you think this font looks like The London Underground's one you've got Trebuchet MS on your PC!! If you haven't you can download it FREE here
Tube Trip.com
If you like my site you'll love Tube Trip. Some really excellent Flash animations in this site where you can get your revenge on tube walkman players, people who eat on the tube and people who don't watch where they put their umbrellas. Higly recommended although you do need Flash to view it. See my tube rules page for more on umbrella maniacs, tubemusic for loud walkman players and tubefood for people who eat smelly food on the tube.
Subway navigator
Excellent site which has a tube journey planner on it. Put in the name of the station you are travelling from and the one you are travelling to and it will calculate the shortest route for your journey. Or simply search by a listof stations or pick the stations you want from the tube map. It also has links to tourist attractions and places of interest next to the stations.
Raggajohn's
London Underground Site
Now this site is great if you want to talk to a
real London Underground train driver and ask him
all sorts of technical questions about trains, deadman's
handles, rolling stock etc. He also has some good
technical articles on his site too, so if you're
a tube teccy it's the perfect place to visit.
Facts
and Figures about the London Underground
Just one page from Ian Peacock's highly informative
site about the London Underground. Find out the
highest and lowest points on the tube (no high points
in my opinion). Busiest Lines and stations and facts
about escalators. Plus loads of other stuff on Ghost
stations and photos of London Underground Service
trains which are used in the middle of the night.
History
of The Underground
Extremely comprehensive site about the 40 disused
stations or "ghost" stations on the underground,
with many "uses" for these closed stations too.
Guide
to The London Underground
Very useful line by line guide to the London Underground.
Dedicated to particular lines with the order of
stops, which zones they are in (this is important
for working out your fare) and links to tourist
attractions and other important landmarks which
can be visited by using these lines. Highly recommended
for tourists.
Tube
Prune
Another excellent site from "insiders" on the London
Underground. There's some brilliant stories here
about life on the tubes from the perspective of
the people who actually work on London Underground.
London
Tourist Information
Extensive site with hotels, sightseeing, and lots
of other tips for tourists such as how we Londoners
stand in queues, and a useful guide to Londoner's
slang (differs Cockney rhyming slang), alright guv!!!
UK
for Visitors
Very comprehensive site for people visiting England,
with sections on London, railways, National Parks,
tourist attractions and much more.
Londonside.com
Don't come to London without taking a look at this
site. Remarkably "tongue in cheek" (or is it) you
get an Australian's (although he's now living in
London) guide to what you need to survive your trip
to London. Highly recommended.
London
Walks
This is a brillant service. It's a walking tour
company in London, with nearly 40 years experience
in the business. The walks last for two hours and
the guides are all skilled with huge background
knowledge of their subject areas. All the walks
start and finish near tube stations. Check it out.
Subways
Net
This site contains links to other subway sites around
the world. Also has some snazzy railwroad screen
savers and links to other places to find worldwide
news about railways.
London
Transport Trivia Quiz
Good page if you get some tricky question in a crossword
or competition about London Transport. Contains
the answer to my favourite tube question - What's
unique about St John's Wood tube station? You either
know the answer to this or you don't!!!!
Jubilee
Line Driver's Site
Want to talk to a driver on the Jubilee Line? Want
to find more about drivers' announcements and sounds?
Also there's the promise of another simulated computer
train drive and a BVE. Not it's nothing to do with
BSE (mad cow's disease) but stands for Boso View
Express a freeware Japanese Train Simulator.
Saveourrailways.com
Great site which campaigns about the privatisation of the railways.
Alwaystouchout.com
Very nicely designed site which provides a comprehensive guide to the latest Transport Projects in London.
District Dave's London Underground Site
Growing site from another tube driver - sorry Train Operator - on the District Line. Lots of inside stories, pictures from his cab and his own daily diary. Nice view from The "Fish & Parcels" Line.
Stockholm subway system
If you want to see how the tube works in Sweden go to this site. There's also a number of other links to underground systems throughout the world on this site. As mentioned earlier I hope to have an international page to my site about tube systems everywhere, but I want to keep it very much in the spirit of my site!! So it's taking a while to find like minded souls to link with and write about.
Urban Exporlorers Network
Not about the London Underground but a fascinating site for people who are interested in exploring underground spaces. And they don't mean pot holing. Travel deserted subways and mainly tunnels underneath American colleges. It's another world!
Another Sun
New online magazine which features an interview with me about the history of Going Underground. Find out why I decided to build this site and its major milestones.
The Funny Side of Transport
If
you join
"Routes International" (it's free) you'll have online access to a collection of weird and
funny
stories about public transport. A huge amount about buses but there are also pages of
stories
about trains and planes too.
London Transport Museum
Visit this site if you want to get hold of tube memorabilia like trendy MIND THE GAP T-shirts, posters, socks and whole range of other trendy stuff with London Transport logos and station signs on them. Shame they don't sell sour faces though as most London Transport staff seem to have a monopoly on them!!!!
The Official London Underground Site
Much as it pains me to put this site on, it probably is worth having a look at this site, if you haven't come across it already. There's all the stuff you'd expect like maps, times (ha, ha, ha - you can only believe the first and last train times as I sincerely don't know of any timetable on the Underground that you can rely on) and other travel information.
Official Guide to Ticket Fares, Prices and Travelcards
Again, I'm referring you to London Underground's Official site only because I don't want you to buy what you think is an "unlimited" Travelcard and then travel outside your zone and get a 10 pound penalty fare. If you're travelling to London as a tourist or out of towner it's really worth having a look at this page and the pages which link to it.
BBC News Archives
Failing the above, there's a good source of stories about the tube on here from the archives of the BBC.
Welcome Homes & Hotels
Stay in a private guest house in London from only £14 per person per night!
Hotels in London
Have fun with our hotel descriptions! Accommodation in London hotels. Periodically updated special offers.
England - The Country
This site is packed with information and links to relevant websites about England.
AboutBritain.com
Extremely comprhensive online guide to Great Britain with useful links to attractions, accomodation and events arounf Britain.
Travel-uk.org
Hugely comprehensive directory with links to everything useful about travel in the UK.
Link London
A great Directory of London businesses, services, restaurants, hotels and much more.
"Really Useful London Links"
Good site with a lot of useful links for tourists, places to go, shopping, street maps, accommodation etc.
London Free List
Excellent site which is updated daily and lists all the events and attractions in London that you don't need much money to go to. They are all either free or cost no more than £3 maximum. Brilliant for tourists and Londoners alike.
BigCity2Day
Will entertain you Monday - Friday with a short free daily e-mail relating to living and loving London. We love eating, drinking, dancing, having fun and spending money - so they’re just the type of things we’re gonna tell you about!!
Insure And Go
Offer low cost travel insurance for UK, US and Australian residents.
Squaremiletimes
Guide to the Square Mile of London - all the facilites, all the shops, whats-on, whats-where and great features.
1st 4 Jobs in London
London jobs guide including a directory of recruitment agencies.
See Britain
More useful links for tourists and other visitors to Britain, Scotland and Ireland. Hotels, festivals, restaurants, leisure, culture and history.
London Links
London Links is another guide to the best of London - for unbiased information on London hotels, budget travel, accommodation, sights, restaurants and pubs.
British Expat.com
Absolutely great site if you are British Expat and you feeling homesick. There's fun, travel discounts and information about living and working abroad. Plus Entertainment, clubs, humour, expert help and a whole lot more!
This is Eltham
Good resource all about Eltham, London SE9, giving details of shops, services, places to see, things to do in Eltham.
Webrings my
site belongs to
If you want surf a whole collection of sites with the general theme of the London
Underground, London
Transport, railways, London, travel or anything wacky to do with Britain, hop along to
this page and surf to
your heart's content.
Link to Me
If you fancy linking to my site please feel free but please link to
http://www.goingunderground.net
I assure you it's the most up to date link to use regardless of how you got here.
Here's some banners you might want to use. The easiest way to get these is to visit my banner centre or click on the banners below to get them emailed to you as gif files. Once you've linked Email me at themole@goingunderground.net and if I like your site or I'm feeling in a good mood I'll give you a reciprocal link back or mention your site in my newsletter.
And you might want to look at or join the discussions in the newsgroup uk.transport.london. The tube and other issues about London also pop up in this newsgroup, uk.local.london
but some of the discussions here can get a bit heated so you have been warned.
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