The station at Monument opened with the name ‘Eastcheap’ on October 1884 but was renamed ‘The Monument’ just three weeks later. When it comes to be being creative and innovative your qualities are not just the things about you, but also what you are associated with. Your best strategy can be to consider who else [...]
What we now call the Piccadilly Line was originally the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opened in 1906. Extensions eventually leading to Hounslow West, Uxbridge and Cockfosters were completed in 1933. More recently the Line was extended west from Hounslow West to Hatton Cross in 1975 and now connects Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 [...]
Stratford Station boasts the underground’s shortest escalator at just 14ft. Stratford Thinking is about doing the quickest, most immediate solution. Quickly, for your creativity: • What’s the easiest thing to do? • What has worked before? • Has someone else come up with a solution you can easily use? • Why do it at all?
Did you know there is a menagerie of wild animals depicted within the Tube map? ‘Animals on the Underground’ is a collection of cute animals that can be created by using the tube lines, stations and junctions of the London Underground map. The Animals are now featured in a zoo on internationally popular web site [...]
The London Underground map is an icon of the underground system, it has also become an icon of ‘London’ and is also recognised as an icon of outstanding design. So, if you come up with the origins of this design, it seems obvious that everyone would recognise your genius, say ‘Yes’ or even roll out [...]
The longest distance between any tube stations is the 3.89 miles (6.26 km), between Chalfont & Latimer and Chesham on the Metropolitan Line. So, if you are doing the long journey to Chesham you need to be motivated to go there. (It is by the way a great stop for those wanting to enjoy rambling [...]
Another dimension of being uncomfortable is your tolerance of what we call ‘IdeaPoo’. IdeaPoo are those many initial ideas, a majority of which might not seem any good on first impression. The problem with great creative and innovative ideas is they will invariably have started life as IdeaPoo. Any idea, like a child, needs to [...]
Your Tube map features a work of art on its cover. For over 100 years London Underground has commissioned posters and other work which has now grown into Art on the Underground (check out www.art.tfl.gov.uk) Designers who have produced work for the Underground include Man Ray, Fougasse, and William Kermode. Art on the Underground has [...]
Walford station is the local Tube station in BBC TV’s long-running soap opera ‘Eastenders’. The Tube map on the fictitious station wall puts it on the District line where Bromley-by-Bow should be. The trains that are occasionally seen passing by are in reality pushed along by stagehands. Fans will know the station was where Lou [...]
Guess which Tube station has the most Tube stations? The answer is the District Line, even though it is only the fourth longest Tube line and was originally conceived of as an extension of the Metroploitan Railway. Yet the District Line has 60 stations serving the travelling public. It is also the only Line to [...]