Презентация, доклад 'London's Tube' 9-11класс

the gap," you're on the London Underground. Better known as the Tube because of the shape of its tunnels.

carrying more than 1 billion passenger a year.

railway termini in its urban centre was proposed in the 1830s
And the world's first underground railway, it opened in January 1863 between Paddington and Farrington. That way was about 6 kilometers.

1911. A one-legged man, “Bumper” Harris, was employed to ride on it and demonstrate its safety.

Some interesting facts about the Tube

and every day.
With a statistic like that, you’d think many people might have given birth while travelling on the tube. Yet only three babies have ever been born in the London Underground. The first girl was in 1924,her name was Mary Kordery, the second (also a girl) on the 19th of December 2008 and the third, the first boy to be born in the Underground, in May 2009.

the equivalent of smoking two cigarettes anyway!
Almost 60% of the London Underground is actually above the ground and not underground.
One of the female automated voice announcers is called Sonia –it’s because her voice «gets on yer nerves.»

Paul Middlewick in 1988 after he spotted an elephant shape while staring at the tube map during his daily journey home from work.

very boring commuting daily on the Underground, and I’d stare at the map as I waited for my train. After a while, I started to see shapes in the tube map, particularly animals. I sketched them down and Animals on the Underground was born. Since then, I have picked out over 20 different animals from the intersecting lines and stations on the map

designs use the same version of the tube map.

Underground map, the animal collection grows all the time and includes whales, birds and some other animals.

posters of the Seal, Elephant and Whale to raise awareness of seal hunting in Canada, and whale hunting.