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 London Underground is the oldest underground rail system in the world, opening in 1863.

Three million passenger journeys are made a day, serving 275 stations with 253 miles of railway.

I make an average of two of those three million daily journeys. On at least one of them I experience that low level rage so beloved and well known to the Londoner. This isn't just about cancelled trains but about the little things that, once you are stuck in a carriage with 50% more people than would be acceptable for transporting cattle, just ANNOY you.

Tannoy Announcements. This may seem trivial to people who do not experience the tube on a daily basis but the utter drivel that is broadcast over the tannoy system gets into your soul and, over time, rots it.

Jubilee line: "We apologise for the suspension of service. This is due to necessary engineering works" As opposed to what? Unnecessary engineering works?

 

Idiocy (aka management and tube). Breweries and piss ups.

LU idea #1 Lets send 6 consecutive trains to Edgware so that by the time they get to Camden they are all empty. This will leave the High Barnet platform so full that passengers are clinging to the wall in fear. Good one guys!

 

Other passengers. Just because we travel like cattle doesn't mean we have to behave like pigs (Apologies to the well behaved pigs)

I am sick of seeing people on the tube with children under the age of five who allow their little darlings to have a seat to themselves when there are people, old people or just people tired from a day's work, standing. Can't they bear for the little darlings to sit on their laps?

There is a school based in Westminster that seems to run lessons in bad behaviour. In the run up to Remembrance Sunday they all wore poppies. They then sat  whilst a man in his eighties stood unsteadily, leaning on his stick. I offered him my seat from. On the bright side, my 'how about getting up off your lazy arses instead of wearing your poppy like a fashion statement' speech, made once the man had got off, did draw polite applause.