London Underground's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories

✍ Scribed by Spragg, Iain

• Publisher: Pavilion Books Company Limited
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 101 KB
• Series: Strangest
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, England--London., London (England
• ISBN: 1907554971

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; Brunel, the Worm and a Tunnelling Revolution, 1843; Pearson the Unpaid Pioneer, 1845; Bye Bye Britain, G'Day Australia!, 1857; The Lonely Station with a Head for Heights, 1867; The Doors to Nowhere, 1868; A River Runs Through It, 1868; Travelling Light, 1873; The Ghost and the Near-death Experience, 1876; The Circle Line Wars, 1884; Smoke, Beards and the Wonder of Electricity, 1887; A French Revolution at Wembley, 1892; Murder on the District Line, 1897; The Final Journey, 1898; Shake, Rattle and Roll, 1900.;Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of London's Underground, or as it is affectionately referred to, the Tube. Though this isnt the usual side of the Tube the tourists, travellers and residents see. (Though, of course, they do see a great deal of strangeness in their daily commutes!). This is the real Underground, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of what happens hundreds of metres below millions of London legs from its peculiar past through to its paranormal present and looking forward to its fascinating future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now c.

✦ Subjects

England -- London