london underground

[ibizaboy]

im no train geek, however im interested in the building of and cross sections of the london underground , can anyone reccomend any books or videos.?

many thanks, ian.

[gary baldy]

There are 3 books here (the Glover , the Day and Reed and the Clayton) that deal with the building of the system and have some nice pics and diagrams:

http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/category.asp?cat_id=11& ;style=2

[vehelpfulguy]

These sites may interest you

http://underground-history.co.uk/front.php

http://mic-ro.com/metro/london.html

[SteveD]

This question is also posred in "How it works".

[druiaghtagh]

Thankyou SteveD for pointing that out, very helpful.

[jigman1]

If you are interested in the underground tube system then you should read the biography of Marc isambard Brunel ( isambard kingdom Brunels father) who engineered the "The Thames tunnel" the first ever tunnel built under a river . It runs fom Wapping to Rotherhithe and was first used be stage coaches and pedestrians. It is now used on the east end tube system , and if you stand on the wapping/rotherhite sation platforms you can observe the tube trains entering the twin horseshoe shaped brick arches . There is losts of stuff on google etc. so have a look.