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itswillstuff:

“40 metres below ground in Stepney Green, our tunnellers mark 4 years since start of Crossrail construction”

The new purple/blue Crossrail roundel

jockohomo:

London Laocoön - “The Crossrail tunnels in London—for now, Europe’s largest construction project, scheduled to finish in 2018—continue to take shape, created in a “tunneling marathon under the streets of London” that aims to add 26 new miles of underground track for commuter rail traffic.It’s London as Laocoön, wrapped in tunnel-boring machines, mechanical snakes that coil through their own hollow nests beneath the city.

blech:

It turns out that Andrew Godwin has coded a 3d visualisation of several London Underground stations, including King’s Cross St Pancras.

If you’re having trouble wrapping your head around the station diagram, you could find being able to turn the thing around and refocus on different platforms useful.

blech:

I previously posted this map of King’s Cross St Pancras as part of my review of the then-new Northern Ticket Hall, but it seems relevant to the previous post.

It also seems useful to post since a video of the secrets of the Victoria line was recently posted, and it contained the (apparently little-known) fact that the best way to the platforms is definitely not to follow the signs.

If you look at the diagram, from above it’s always easier to walk to the eastern (“existing”) ticket hall, and from the Northern and Piccadilly line you should head towards the cluster of staircases where the three platforms meet.

(The image used to be hosted on TfL’s site as part of their information about the station’s upgrade, but now it’s done it’s been taken down. Instead I took this from Leewood Projects, who worked on the western ticket hall.)

thisistheverge:

Meet Harry Beck, the genius behind London’s iconic subway map

A look back at the man who changed the way people move

blech:

“The underground story of King’s Cross square.” (via)

adeleblog:

27 Extraordinary Facts About The London Underground

version3point1:

Friday 22 March

(at Uxbridge London Underground Station)

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