The Tube: Station to Station on the London Underground (Shire General Book 4)

From Norman Foster's remarkable station at Canary Wharf to the Yellow-brick vaults of Baker street to the Art Deco exuberance of Arnos Grove, London's tube stations are among its most distinctive and iconic buildings. This beautiful hardback edition is a fantastic gift-book, publishing in the run up to Christmas, and sales will be boosted even further by the much-loved network's 150th anniversary in 2013. Cover; Title; Contents; 150 Years Underground; History; 1860-89: Metropolitan and District; 1890-1919: Down the Tubes; 1920-39: Suburbia and Metro-land; 1940-69: War, Austerity and the Victoria Line; 1970-99: To Heathrow in the West and Docklands in the East; 2000-19: PPP, Overground and Crossrail; Tube Journeys; Inner Circle; Pioneer Tubes; Bringing Chicago to London: The Yerkes Lines; Metro-land; Northern Heights; Piccadilly Progress; Heading East: DLR & JLE; Further Reading; Imprint