Презентация, доклад к проекту по английскому языку The London Tube Стрижигаускас Александры

station, it ran from the station of Bishop's Road to Farringdon Road.

bomb shelter.

stations
The length of track - more than 253 miles (408 kilometers).
London Underground passenger traffic in 2008 totaled 1.09 billion, or about 3 million people a day.

– Brown (25 stations)
Central Line – Red (49 stations)
Circle Line – Yellow (35 stations)
District Line – Green (60 stations)
Hammersmith & City Line – Pink (29 stations)
Jubilee Line – Silver (27 stations)
Metropolitan Line - Dark Magenta (34 stations)
Northern Line – Black (50 stations)
Piccadilly Line – Dark Bluе (53 stations)
Victoria Line – Light Blue (16 stations)
Waterloo & City Line – Turquoise (2 stations)

more Tube («pipe»), to form the majority of deep tunnels.

hours a day because most lines have only two tracks (one in each direction) and therefore need to close at night for cleaning and planned maintenance work.

for shorter journeys, with the remainder operating by 05:30, running until around 01:00.

can obtain, charge with credit and use to pay for travel. The Oyster card is cheaper to operate than cash ticketing or the older-style magnetic-strip-based Travelcards.

to "create an environment for positive impact and to enhance and enrich the journeys of ... passengers".

Arts in the underground

1920s, of many well-known graphic designers, illustrators and artists for its own publicity posters.

help passenger identification. Often, these have themes of local significance. In the walls at Baker Street station represent silhouette of Sherlock Holmes.

Paolozzi representing the local music industry at Denmark Street.

Northern line platforms at Charing Cross feature murals by David Gentleman of the construction of Charing Cross itself.