Way before Sherlock had a ‘tube montage’ in one of its episodes – there was this. A Trip on the Underground.

Created by Alex Thompson years before an episode of Sherlock featured something very similar, he describes it as ‘A trip on the underground that gets weirder and weirder, focusing on the graphics, design and movement often missed on the Tube. It’s seamlessly cut in rhythm with the music for compelling viewing you’ll want to see again and again. See the underground like never before.’

It’s been online for ages, but I don’t think we’ve ever embedded the video to it here on the Station Master blog, so in case you haven’t seen it – is this the future of tube travel?

Oh boy, just when we thought we’d seen them everywhere on in-carriage posters and larger variants on the platform, TfL now seem to have created animated variants of the same advertising campaign with the bad rhymes that don’t scan properly.   They’re also now appearing as ‘trailer’ adverts before some YouTube videos (that most people immediately click past after 5 seconds).

I personally still think it’s better to press the emergency alarm button WHILST the train is travelling between stations so that you alert the driver sooner – rather than later – that someone is ill on board your train.