But on 21 July 2005, Arthur Burton-Garbett chased a suicide bomber through Oval underground station.
"Liverpool Street Underground Station Shelter" (1940) shows Londoners preparing to spend the night sleeping in the Tube.
In Brixton, a south London neighbourhood, an open-air cannabis market exists within ten minutes' walk of the underground station.
Closed in March 2009, Blackfriars Underground station is now able to accommodate up to 60% more passengers a day.
The underground station at Liverpool Lime Street has been closed for four months to allow refurbishment work to take place.
London Underground station cleaners are to go on strike next week in a dispute over pay, their union has said.
This will close on 8 December 2007 and a new underground station will open at St Pancras to accommodate longer trains.
The underground station closed in April while work was carried out to refurbish the concourse and facilities, making it "lighter and brighter".
On Thursday he carried the components of a fake bomb into the building in a black shoulder bag, via the underground station entrance.
His mosaics decorating the walls of Tottenham Court Road underground station in central London beguile the thousands of people using it each day.
Mr Ling, whose job includes loitering in public places for observation, watched a woman at an Oslo underground station who texted as she walked.
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Just before she reaches the nearest underground station, she's had enough.
The revised plan also includes a new Euston Tube station ticket hall and a sub-surface pedestrian link between Euston and the nearby Euston Square Underground station.
Down below, the Underground station itself has not been used in any capacity since the 1950s, and has not been part of the working subway network since 1934.
In the melee that followed, Sofyen was chased into the London Underground station by as many as 15 of the youths who stabbed, kicked and punched him to death.
Virgin Media and London Underground engineers continue to test and prepare the forthcoming WiFi service, including recent capacity testing at Chancery Lane underground station where hundreds of devices were connected to the station's WiFi service at exactly the same time to reproduce the service experience of a busy Tube train arriving at the station2.
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It would involve the construction of a dam, reservoir, underground power station and water tunnels in the hills above Loch Lochy.
Yet it is just the highest profile in a string of big-ticket projects including a concert hall in Hamburg, railway tunnels in Munich and Leipzig, a subway line in Cologne and a Stuttgart underground train station that have been plagued by huge cost overruns and delays.
He added that it did not have emergency medical treatment facilities such as ambulances or a first-aid station underground.
The hotel sits directly above the Bonaventure metro station and underground city, making it popular with conference groups.
London Underground (LU) station cleaners have begun a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay.
At 135.1 hectares (333.8 acres) the airfield has three tarmac runways, a control tower dating back to the 1940s, a fire station and various underground structures from the decade.
Artist Mark Wallinger has unveiled his labyrinth design for artworks to be displayed at every station on the London Underground.
Debris from the swollen River Thames has caused problems to the water cooler for the generating station which powers London Underground.
Robin Moulna, 38, a manager at a fast-food restaurant, was surprised to receive a call from his brother while waiting for an F train in the Rockefeller Center subway station, two levels underground.
The ride was surreal and very sad, with people glued to portable radios and then, when we exited the underground portion of the trip from Grand Central Station, we witnessed an unobstructed view on this bright sunny day of the tremendous smoke billowing from the site of the towers.
Docklands, the great new commercial heart of the city, is virtually a design-award-free zone, apart from Canary Wharf tube station, which is (obviously) mostly underground.
At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
It also has an underground retail and restaurant area where direct access to the Otemachi subway station will open in 2013.
St Pancras was chosen as an international terminus in part because it is a few minutes' walk from King's Cross station which has connections to Edinburgh, Newcastle and the east coast as well as six London Underground lines.
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