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Underground to Everywhere: London's Underground Railway in the Life of the Capital
Stephen Halliday
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| #5259822 in Books | The History Press | 2001-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x.92 x6.50l,1.95 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This is an excellent look at the growth and development of the London ...|By Michael G. Venaccio|This is an excellent look at the growth and development of the London Underground as it is known today. It is an overview of each line, the personalities involved and a discussion of the political environment. While not as in depth as Wolmar's "Subterranean Railway", which spends mo|About the Author|Stephen Halliday is an expert on the history of Victorian London, with a special interest in public works and planning. His best-known previous book is The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropoli
In 1900 an American financier called Charles Tyson Yerkes was placed in charge of London's underground railways, which had been in service since 1863 and were, even then, showing signs of their age. Over the next five years he applied his business methods - which he described as 'Buy up old junk, fix it up a little and unload it upon other fellows' - to the construction of much of the capital's deep-level tube system. Yerkes was one of many colourful characters...
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