Balloon Animals on the Tube

To break up the gloom over Tube strikes, someone appears to be trying to brighten up the London Underground with an outbreak of balloon anim...

Tube Strikes could escalate in the New Year

Do you want the good news or the bad news? Thankfully unions RMT & TSSA will not be recommending further walkouts this side of Christmas...

Fourth Tube Strike on for 28th - 29th November

In spite of talks and the RMT & TSSA unions offering to suspend the industrial action, if London Underground agreed to a 12 week suspen...

Olympics chiefs say avoid Tube

The Olympic Delivery Authority yesterday urged commuters to avoid the London Underground during the 2012 Olympics. They anticipate an extra...

Interview with Christopher Fowler - Tube crime & horror writer

After last week's launch of The End of the Line - collection of subway themed horror short stories , I got in touch with one of the auth...

You know it's cold on the Tube when

..even the Help Points need jackets. Perhaps if we get snow on the London Underground, in the coming weeks we might see trains parked in dep...

Tube Train Cake

Discovered this lovely cake in the Flickr London Underground group . It's retirement cake made by Emma White from SheLovesCake . Tube tr...

Union claims TfL lying over unmanned Tube stations

The RMT has accused TfL of "total lies" as a leaked document revealed a number of London Underground stations could be left unstaf...

Typographic Tube Map

Another day, another London Underground Map mash up. I noticed a map behind the speakers at Foyles' launch of The End of the Line tube ...

The End of the Line - Subway horror story anthology

Last night I went to the launch of a collection of short chilling stories set on the London Underground and other subway systems around the ...

New Tube stations planned with new Battersea Power Station

Last week a proposal to revamp Battersea Power Station was given approval by Wandsworth Council. Two new London Underground stations were a...

Stations of the London Metropolis - Oliver Green Talk

London Transport Museum's Research Fellow, Oliver Green, will be giving an illustrated talk about London's major stations on Novembe...

London Underground Posters Auction - November 15

London Underground posters aren't just for transport geeks, they've warranted an Underground Gallery exhibit at New York's MoMA...

Body found in London Underground Tunnel

Reports are coming in that a body has been found on the tracks in a tunnel near Bayswater Tube station by Tube staff at around 2.30am. At t...

Abandoned NY Subway station now visible to public

There's a "hidden" abandoned subway station in New York that up until recently has been closed to the public. Well, it's ...

Tube drivers may strike over Boxing Day pay

London Underground drivers are to vote on industrial action in a management disagreement over Boxing Day pay. London Underground claim 26th ...

Urban Legends & Ghosts of the London Underground

If you like your Tube tales filled with ghosts, ghouls, secret tunnels and "friendly terrorists" you might be interested in a talk...

Olympics Tube Map Cover we'd like to see

Love this mock up of a 2012 Olympics London Underground Map Cover by Max Roberts . Sadly it's unlikely to see the light of day as a phy...

Dealing with the Tube Strike in 1962

Great video footage from Pathe about how Londoners dealt with an unofficial London Underground Strike in 1962 . Very similar footage as to w...

3rd Tube Strike begins this evening

From 9pm tonight - 2nd November the TSSA and RMT unions will start the third of their 24-hour strikes. That's drivers and station staff...