For anyone who has lived worked visited or even passed through london the tube is one of the iconic and defining characteristics of the city amazing extraordinary facts london underground takes you from the famous roundel symbol and standing on the right of the escalators to the instantly recognisable and hugely influential route map. Underground curiosities ghost stations myths and legends of the underground amazing extraordinary london underground facts tells this incredible story of grand and impractical visions colourful characters and shady dealers political wranglings and financial disasters it glories in groundbreaking engineering and architecture innovative art and inspired marketing. Amazing extraordinary london underground facts book read 8 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Amazing extraordinary london underground facts takes you from the famous roundel symbol and standing on the right of the escalators to the instantly recognisable and hugely influential route map this title helps to discover the tales of the building of the first lines in the mid nineteenth century and the steam trains that ran along them