The completely brilliant 1000 Londoners video project have caught up with Max Roberts, to interview him and ask him about his alternative Tube Map designs …
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More Overground
Station Master Geoff has been out on the orange coloured trains again to make another video – Secrets of Overground Part 2 is now online to watch …
Down Street Disused ‘Ghost’ Station
Station Master Geoff for Londonist got to go down Down Street station the other week, and here’s the video that was produced – inside an abandoned station!
Tube Life Hacks
There’s a new YouTube channel – City Hacks London – where the people behind it have made a fun video about ‘hacks’ on the Tube. They got in touch with us to ask if they could use some of our 3D maps – and so we said yes! Have a watch of this fun video full of shortcuts on the Tube …
Behind the scenes at Bond Street
Bond Street is having a major station upgrade with a new entrance, escalators, and lifts being installed – separate from the Crossrail works taking place. Station Masters Geoff and Matt got to go down and have a look …
Secrets of the Overground
Station Master Geoff has finally gone Orange … onto the Overground, with a new ‘Secrets…’ video. It’s Part 1 of a two part series!
A Day on the Underground
This is doing the rounds today, and it’s superb:
A day on the London Underground from Will Gallia on Vimeo.
Will Gallia has created an animation of Tube journeys extracted from TfL Oyster data and turned it into an animation showing journeys over the course of a day.
“This project was started in 2012, but wasn’t finished until 2015. The idea was to visualise real London Underground data on the Tube map was we know it. I wanted to write all of the movement in a shader. Initially I thought I would have each journey (or person) as one pixel in the final animation, using a GLSL pixel shader to move the pixel.”
London Underworld
Ben Langham, who we’ve previously mentioned as part of his Tunnel Sounds project, has teamed up with video maker Huw Penson to make this rather nice new video using imagery from the Underground, and all sounds that go with it recorded by Ben.
“A creative project to remind us of the strange surroundings most of us walk through everyday. Filmed on many parts of the London Underground with permission from TfL.”
Don’t prevent people getting on the train
In the wake of the footage showing Chelsea fans in Paris not letting a man on a train, a warning appeared on the Internet to never do the same with aliens from another world …
Mind The Gap Documentary
It was this time last year that the story came out how the widow of Oswald Laurence (the voice of the “Mind the Gap” announcements) used to visit the tube just to hear his voice … well, someone’s gone and made a beautiful short film about it.
Oswald Laurence’s voice was used on the northbound Northern Line but was phased out until only Embankment used it. Dr Margaret McCollum said she often uses the station and was devastated when “he wasn’t there” in November.
She was given a copy of the recording after TfL heard she went to Embankment after his death to hear his voice. After the request Transport for London bosses decided to restore the voiceover warning to Embankment station.
The film features Babrican, not Embankment – and if you’re being really picked you’ll notice a few continuity errors.
Mind The Gap from Luke Flanagan on Vimeo.