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Max Roberts on 1000 Londoners

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 …

16 Jul 15

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 …

26 May 15

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!

14 May 15

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 …

09 May 15

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 …

06 May 15

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!

01 May 15

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.”

19 Mar 15

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.”

17 Mar 15

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 …

06 Mar 15

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.

01 Mar 15