June 26, 2004

Disused London underground stations

Speaking of visualizing complex systems (as I was), here's a delightful site about disused London tube stations. A recent addition shows a map of the system in 1929 - you can see why Harry Beck's classic map caught on when it came out four years later.

Mornington Crescent, anybody?

Posted by geoff2 at June 26, 2004 12:49 AM
Comments

Interesting that there's no mention of the wonderful book 'Neverwhere' by Neil Gaiman, which takes place in the London Below at many of these unused stations.

Posted by: Paul at June 26, 2004 04:13 AM

Good connection, Paul! I love "Neverwhere" (and everything by Neil Gaiman). I'll suggest this to the website owner.

Posted by: Geoff at June 26, 2004 07:37 AM

Great link! I love the old advertising! The old map is interesting, too. I like subways.

Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at June 26, 2004 11:15 AM

I can recommend the book "London Under London", which also addresses this kind of thing:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0719552885

I think I bought it at the London Transport Museum. There's also a good site addressing similar issues with subways here in the US:

http://www.nycsubway.org/

It's mostly about New York but there is content on other cities. They also have a nice bibliography.

Posted by: Chris Jackson at June 26, 2004 11:50 AM