Railway 2.0 » London Underground http://www.railway20.net The Railway World looked from the Web Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:01:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The little book of the London Underground [books] http://www.railway20.net/2011/01/the-little-book-of-the-london-underground-books/ http://www.railway20.net/2011/01/the-little-book-of-the-london-underground-books/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:00:36 +0000 Railway 2.0 http://www.railway20.net/?p=498 More about Little Book of the London UndergroundTitle: The little book of the London Underground

Author: David Long

Nice series of short facts and figures about the Tube.
According to me, a good first approach to start understanding the complexity and the stories behind the most iconic subway on earth.

]]> http://www.railway20.net/2011/01/the-little-book-of-the-london-underground-books/feed/ 0 Live train map for the London Underground http://www.railway20.net/2010/06/live-train-map-for-the-london-underground/ http://www.railway20.net/2010/06/live-train-map-for-the-london-underground/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:00:09 +0000 Railway 2.0 http://www.railway20.net/?p=191 This was an idea of Matthew Somerville, surprisingly and quickly set out during the Science Hackday of 19/20th of June. I don’t know who really cares about knowing the position of trains of London Undeground but this was a nice result considering the quick development based on fetcheddata from the Transport for London API plotted on a Google Map. Not a premiere for Matthew, considering the similar live train map of UK trains.

I think that having these data available from operator, we’ll get used very soon to this kind of application. Also consider the already posted Swiss Train Map of some months ago.

Oh, for sure there’s still room to improve Matthew’s application since he made the source code available to anyone interested in correcting some minor bugs and enhance (and perhaps making more useful) his smart application.

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“London has the oldest underground transportation system in the world. What happens when the last train has left the station and the escalators stop?”. This was the question raised by Wired popular magazine to introduce a short video report explaining the behind the scenes or better to say “behind the service” populating the London Underground by night. When the last train goes to sleep a team of track workers takes care of the clock’s gears in order to let it work perfectly during the following days.

[video: Wired]

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