To help you impress fellow travellers on the London Underground, we've rounded up just a few of the mad and fascinating facts you might not know about the TfL service. Liverpool Street Station and ...

While Aldgate Station is built on a massive plague pit ... the campaign failed and it has yet to get a Tube stop named after it. Five babies have been born on the London Underground since it ...

Also: Shoreditch station (old one), Silverlink network ... Trocadero (West End), Tubby Isaac's jellied eel stall (Aldgate) Not the tube station, which is alive and kicking, but West Ham United's ...

For now, though – here’s a brief history of the entire London Underground told through ten maps. Opened in 1863, the initial Metropolitan Railway route ran between Paddington and Farringdon, but was ...

All other London Underground lines are providing a good ... There is a chance that trains heading to and from the station will be cancelled, delayed, or changed. National Rail says disruption ...

In 1884, to complete the Circle line, a new station was ... from Chesham to Aldgate, and the District Railway had started services to Wimbledon. The first deep-level Tube line opened in 1890 ...