Rating: 5 out of 5

A well written and fascinating insight into how the London Underground came to be. This was an Amazon recommendation (presumably based on the fact I recently read “Brighton to London derailed) and I downloaded the sample chapter. It has an easy to read, fact-full but not too text book style of writing that interested me. The story progresses in great detail, highlighting some early speculation but including some wonderful tangents (the Empire exhibition in 1924 featured a life-sized model of the Prince of Wales made out of butter - thanks Canada) until shortly after the Second World War, when, like the network Itself, it runs out of steam leaving the final chapter being a bit of a chore. The Underground system is a wonderful piece of Victorian and Edwardian engineering, and it’s stewards of Ashfield and Pick left a legacy behind them. Overall a well-written tale about the Underground system, and it’s many amazing characters, that will prove interesting to those that have spent time travelling on the tube

Originally posted to my Goodreads account