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  • Rush hour train commuters on-board carriages travelling into London between Denmark Hill and London Bridge stations, London.
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  • Rush hour train commuters on-board carriages travelling into London between Denmark Hill and London Bridge stations, London.
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  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of new housing and apartments at the large Battersea Power Station construction site by Sir Robert Macalpine and Keltbray, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
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  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
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  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-02-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of Battersea Dogs Home and cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-03-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling into Victoria station, is a landscape of Pimlico housing, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
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  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-06-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of new housing and apartments at the large Battersea Power Station construction site by Sir Robert Macalpine and Keltbray, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-09-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-01-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Standing room only for these 1990s commuters, squeezed into the carriage of their train travelling into central London, on 18th February 1992, at Clapham Junction railway station, London, England.
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  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage is a view of railway tracks and the carriages of another service travelling towards Victoria station, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
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  • Seen from across the aisle of a train carriage, a waldy reads a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper with a headlne about the NATO's 70th anniversary summit taking place in Watford, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
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  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of new housing and apartments at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-11-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of new housing and apartments at the large Battersea Power Station construction site by Sir Robert Macalpine and Keltbray, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-10-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of cranes and gantries at the large Battersea Power Station construction site, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-05-04-12-2019.jpg
  • Trackside apartments and flats at the Nine Elms regeneration development in Battersea, seen through the window of a Southern train carriage window, on 7th November 2019, in London, England
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  • A generic landscape outside of a station platform sign a CCTV camera, see through the window seat of a north-bound Thameslink train, on 15th October 2019, in London, England.
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  • A commuter strides past the open doors of a commuter train awaiting departure from a platform at Victoria station
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  • A train passenger waits for the doors to open at City Thameslink station, on 15th October 2019, in London, England.
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  • Seen from behind, two young boys tag the inside the 1980s carriage of a 1990s London Underground train, on 8th November 1989, in London, England. in 1980s London, graffiti was a persistent problem that costs the transport company network up to £3 million a year to remove. If caught, juvenile delinquents like usually escaped with only a caution because of their age - although older ones were prosecuted. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A Eurostar train and the new artwork entitled 'I Want My Time With You' by British (Britpop) artist Tracy Emin hangs over the main concourse at St. Pancras Station, on 10th April 2018, in London, England. In the sixth year of the Terrace Wires Commission - and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of St Pancras International and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, at one of London's mainline station, the London hub for Eurostar - the 20 metre-long greeting to commuters reads 'I Want My Time With You' and Emin thinks that arriving by train and being met by a lover as they put their arms around them, is very romantic." The Brexit-opposing artist also said she wanted to make "a statement that reaches out to everybody from Europe arriving in to London".
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  • A Eurostar train and the new artwork entitled 'I Want My Time With You' by British (Britpop) artist Tracy Emin hangs over the main concourse at St. Pancras Station, on 10th April 2018, in London, England. In the sixth year of the Terrace Wires Commission - and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of St Pancras International and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, at one of London's mainline station, the London hub for Eurostar - the 20 metre-long greeting to commuters reads 'I Want My Time With You' and Emin thinks that arriving by train and being met by a lover as they put their arms around them, is very romantic." The Brexit-opposing artist also said she wanted to make "a statement that reaches out to everybody from Europe arriving in to London".
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  • Leader of the Opposition and future Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP, sits reading newspapers whilst on a train en-route to an evening Labour Party rally in Nottingham, 2 years before his victory in the 1997 General Election, on 2nd February 1995 in London UK. Then, he could travel in relative obscurity, without large security details. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.
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  • A London youth is busy tagging on windows of a 90s London underground tube train, during an overland section of the capital's rail system near Ladbroke Grove in 1989.
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  • A London youth is busy tagging on windows of a 90s London underground tube train, during an overland section of the capital's rail system near Ladbroke Grove in 1989.
    graffiti_tagging01-08-11-1989.jpg
  • A group of attractive young ladies sit together in a train compartment. They are all on their way from London's Waterloo mainline station to Royal Ascot in Berkshire for Ladies Day during the Royal Ascot racing week. Wearing their best clobber and obligatory headwear for the posh event, the seated females are dressed in summer skirts and tops, in readiness for a warm day at the races. Sharing a joke and with plastic glasses filled with champagne from a bottle that one has been serving from, the 7 women are in good spirits in their private first class compartment that has a number 1 on the outside door. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
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  • During the evening rush hour, hundreds of rail commuters are queueing to board a Thameslink train which has just arrived on the platform at Farringdon Station in Clerkenwell, London England. Standing 10-deep, they patiently wait the next ride home southbound during a tube strike forced the closure of underground stations and making workers take alternative routes. Looking down from a high bridge we see the train's roof and the heads of those delayed and inconvenienced. It is another miserable journey home.
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  • Seen from behind, two young boys are busy writing their graffiti tags on windows on a London underground tube train, during an overland section of the capital's rail system near Ladbroke Grove in 1989.
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  • Seen from a low angle at the side of the track, near where grass and daisies grow, a speeding Eurostar TGV train hurtles towards the viewer, blurring as it comes towards us. This is the Kent countryside, otherwise known as the fertile Garden of England, and the route for high-speed trains that ply back and forth between western Europe and London St Pancras. This international passenger service was made possible by the completion of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 operating eighteen-carriage Class 373 trains which run at up to 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) on a network of high-speed lines. Eurostar is operated by the national railway companies of France and Belguim, SNCF and SNCB, and by Eurostar (UK) Ltd (EUKL), a subsidiary of London and Continental Railways (LCR) which in turn also owns the high-speed infrastructure and stations on the British side.
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  • A Minnie Mouse balloon brought from Disneyworld, Paris, is carried on a London Underground tube train. The face of Minnie obscures the young girl's own features but to her right is a friend who has also returned to their home city after some time enjoying the Disney theme park in the French capital. Another train passenger seems amused by the cartoon character's presence in these otherwise drab surroundings - Minnies' smile to the camera makes for a humorous moment for these commuters under the streets of London.
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  • As blue light fades on a bitterly cold winter's evening, the barrier of an Austrian level-crossing has been lowered to stop traffic and allow a high-speed ICE-T train to continue on its route through, near Salzburg, Austria, Europe. OBB, the Austrian Federal Railways operate a network of 5,683 km makes them the by far largest railway-company in this country. Heavy snow has fallen in this region of the Alps and deposits have settled on the fences and the glowing red stop traffic light, signalling for motorists to halt at this dangerous road-crossing location. So fast is this mode of transport, it blurs past this cold, desolate spot where only one nearby house is next to the trackside. (From a story about travelling through 6 European countries by coach in 7 days).
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  • The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair MP, as Leader of the Opposition, stares in deep thought whilst on a train en-route to an evening Labour Party rally in Nottingham, 2 years before his victory in the 1997 General Election that eventually made him British Prime Minister. Blair is with an unknown Downing Street assistant and is has been reading the London Evening Standard newspaper in the First Class carriage at a time when fellow-passengers take little notice of the future controversial world statesman. Then, he could travel in relative obscurity, without large security details. Blair is wearing a blue shirt with a sober, patterned tie and his hair is still dark without the greyness that would appear rapidly when the pressures of office prematurely aged him. It is dark outside and we see no detail through the window of the vast Victorian mainline station outside.
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  • A group of young men are standing in a train corridor admiring some attractive young ladies through the open door of a railway compartment. They are all on their way from London's Waterloo mainline station to Ascot in Berkshire for Ladies Day during the Royal Ascot racing week. In the foreground, a lad wearing a dark suit and yellow tie tugs on his shirt sleeve in a confident and assertive manner before approaching the girls to say hello. He and another man are looking amorously down towards the seated females who are dressed in summer skirts and tops, in readiness for a warm day at the races. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season.
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  • A passenger's leg is seen on the floor of a Heathrow Express train between terminals at Heathrow Airport. .
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  • Silhouetted commuters wait on benches for arriving train on covered platform at London Bridge mainline station.
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  • Rush hour train commuters check messages on-board carriages travelling into city mainline stations in south London.
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  • Rush hour train commuter checks messages on-board carriages travelling into city mainline stations in south London.
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  • An engineer polishes a Thomas the Tank Engine locomotive whilst in sidings on the Bluebell Railway at Kingscote, England. The Bluebell Railway is a heritage line running for nine miles along the border between East and West Sussex, England. Steam trains are operated between Sheffield Park and Kingscote, with an intermediate station at Horsted Keynes. The railway is managed and run largely by volunteers. It has the largest collection (over 30) of steam locomotives in the UK, the first preserved standard gauge steam-operated passenger railway in the world to operate a public service, running its first train on 7 August 1960.
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  • A volunteer helps an elderly lady from the platform up into a train carriage at the Paignton steam museum.
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  • Metro newspaper on a London underground tube train seat with Olympic amabassador and rioter story on page 1.
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  • Metro newspaper on a London underground tube train seat with Olympic amabassador and rioter story on page 1.
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  • Trackside apartments and flats at the Nine Elms regeneration development in Battersea, seen through the window of a Southern train carriage window, on 7th November 2019, in London, England
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  • Trackside apartments and flats at the Nine Elms regeneration development in Battersea, seen through the window of a Southern train carriage window, on 7th November 2019, in London, England
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  • Trackside apartments and flats at the Nine Elms regeneration development in Battersea, seen through the window of a Southern train carriage window, on 7th November 2019, in London, England
    surbiton_journey-01-07-11-2019.jpg
  • A train passenger uses her phone as billboard ad portraits by artist Steve McQueen's school children portraits artwork, on 7th November 2019, in Kingston, London, England. Portraits of schoolchildren by the artist Steve McQueen have been unveiled on billboards across London. The Oscar-winning filmmaker, photographed thousands of London’s Year Three pupils, in traditional-style class snaps with rows of smiling children alongside their teachers, for a “visual portrait of citizenship”. The portraits are on display at 613 locations on roadsides, railways and underground stations. Turner Prize-winner McQueen invited all of London’s Year Three school pupils to take part but ended up with 76,000 children – around two thirds of London’s seven to eight-year-olds. The outdoor work is a collaboration with Artangel, known for producing unusual art in unexpected places.
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  • Clouds and station lamp posts seen from the window seat of a waiting train, on 2nd October 2019, in London, England.
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  • A rail passenger waits for the next train on the opposite platform, on 2nd October 2019, in London, England.
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  • A tourist coach parked in central London shows an old steam train and carriages.
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  • A tourist coach parked in central London shows an old steam train and carriages.
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  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. A train guard watches for a green signal as Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station02-19-02-1993.jpg
  • A couple just off the train from Waterloo are en-route to Ascot racecourse on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. Not looking particularly happy to have arrived, two elderly women look at the clothes worn including the man's top hat and tails. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
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  • Girlfriends eagerly await the opening by one woman of a bottle of bubbly, en-route by train to Ascot racecourse  on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot racing week. The hats are wide-brimmed and the pinks are bright in this first class carriage with an old fashioned corridor. Royal Ascot is held every June and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and English social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting. There are sixteen group races on offer, with at least one Group One event on each of the five days. The Gold Cup is on Ladies' Day on the Thursday. There is over £3 million of prize money on offer.
    ascot_races07-21-06-1993.jpg
  • Aerial view of south London looking from Camberwell towards a commuter train crossing the capital.
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  • West Ham's London underground tbe station seen through carriage window of a tube train carriage.
    west_ham_tube1-12-August-2011.jpg
  • Two young girls dressed in traditional Spanish flamenco attire stop at the childrens' fairground during a lull in the celebrations for the April Feria, Seville. A pair of eyes painted on the front of the train ride engine looks across to one of the girls' similarly-designed dress. It is part of a lively event that Seville holds annually in the vast area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River. Rows of temporary marquee tents, or casetas, host families, corporations and friends into the late hours during the April Fair which begins begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week in the Andalusian capital.
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  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America's habit and dependency on car culture.
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  • Rush hour train commuters on-board carriages traveling into central London. <br />
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A limited edition (1 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • Air passengers exit and enter a transit train at Chicago O'Hare airport, Illinois USA. They pull suitcases behind them as they negotiate the airport terminal transport system that takes them across the sprawling complex of terminals and tunnels. A large central yellow traffic arrow saying OUT is most prominent telling arriving people to keep in the middle, allowing those departing to enter the carriage from the sides. There is a slight blur to the picture showing the hurrying nature of modern air travel, vastly different from the pioneering days of flight for only the socially elite. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903..
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  • Gazing out of the window at an inner-city landscape from of a commuter train between Denmark Hill and Victoria, South London
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  • Londoners sit and stand in a packed carriage on an overground rail service, stopped at a central London station. The windows are filthy with railway and city grime and the faces on passengers tell the story of a miserable experience travelling at rush-hour in the capital. The 90s carriage was an old style phased out in the late 90s, their construction proving unsafe and out-of-date with a modern transport infrastructure.
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  • Heathrow Express passenger and sunglasses advertising seen en route between airport terminals.
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  • Commuters and no smoking sign on a carriage travelling into London between Denmark Hill and London Bridge stations
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  • A volunteer heritage railway enthusiast adjusts a platform sign at the Paignton steam museum.
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  • A lady walks past a large billboard ad for high street opticians chain, Specsavers, on 2nd October 2019, in London, England.
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  • Construction and regeneration hoardings featuring local arts and community on 7th March 2017, on Station Square, Railton Road in Herne Hill, SE24, London borough of Lambeth, England.
    herne_hill-25-07-03-2017.jpg
  • An M62 Zeppelin diesel locomotive from the '60s still in service at a rural station near Porva-Csesznek, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
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  • London 8/4/2013 - Londoners on the London underground from Heathrow, read of the death of ex-British Prime Minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher whose death was announced on April 8th, 2013 in London. Thatcher (known to Britons as Maggie) served as leader of the Conservative party then Prime Minister of Britain from 1979 to 1990 and passed away peracefully from a stroke at age 87.
    thatcher_death01-08-04-2013.jpg
  • London 8/4/2013 - Londoners on the London underground from Heathrow, read of the death of ex-British Prime Minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher whose death was announced on April 8th, 2013 in London. Thatcher (known to Britons as Maggie) served as leader of the Conservative party then Prime Minister of Britain from 1979 to 1990 and passed away peracefully from a stroke at age 87.
    thatcher_death03-08-04-2013.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station01-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters02-09-03-1992.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters01-09-03-1992.jpg
  • A London Underground employee wipes hard to remove the tagging left behind by permanent marker pens on London Transport property in 1989.
    graffiti_tagging02-08-11-1989.jpg
  • A landscape of rails, railway bridge and residential flats at Elephant & Castle, on 15th October 2019, in London, England.
    elstree_journey-01-15-10-2019.jpg
  • A lady walks with her small pet dog past a large billboard ad for high street opticians chain, Specsavers, on 2nd October 2019, in London, England.
    sutton_journey-03-02-10-2019.jpg
  • Construction and regeneration hoardings featuring local arts and community on 7th March 2017, on Station Square, Railton Road in Herne Hill, SE24, London borough of Lambeth, England.
    herne_hill-24-07-03-2017.jpg
  • London 8/4/2013 - Londoners on the London underground from Heathrow, read of the death of ex-British Prime Minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher whose death was announced on April 8th, 2013 in London. Thatcher (known to Britons as Maggie) served as leader of the Conservative party then Prime Minister of Britain from 1979 to 1990 and passed away peracefully from a stroke at age 87.
    thatcher_death02-08-04-2013.jpg
  • Volunteer Guardian Angels patrol the London underground in central London, an experiment in anti-crime in late-80s London. Patrolling the capital's transport system, an Angel stands over two elderly ladies in a dark-lit carriage. The Angels are under the supervision of the organisation's creator Curtis Sliwa, who started the band of youths to help make New York a safer place, - and in London's case in an era before CCTV made travel less secure. The Guardian Angels is a non-profit international volunteer organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers. The Guardian Angels organization was founded February 13, 1979 in New York City by Curtis Sliwa and has chapters in 15 countries and 144 cities around the world. Sliwa originally created the organization to combat widespread violence and crime on the New York City Subways.
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  • Peeling billboard poster sheets near 2012 Olympic Park construction site in Stratford.
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  • At the famous Butlins holiday camp in the Somerset town of Minehead, a poolside lifeguard overlooks the main  pool from an overhead bridge. Behind him a monorail transports holidaymakers around the resort. Wearing the large letter B for Butlins on his red vest, the young lad sucks on his whistle held between his lips and prominently, the words 'Made in England' have been tattooed on his left shoulder - as if a statement for his patriotic ideals but also for those of Butlins - an institution for the British working classes who after the war had the opportunity to spend their summers at special resorts in seaside towns that provided entertainment and fun. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
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  • Rush hour train commuters descend by escalator into Underground at London Bridge mainline Station, en-route to tube sevices
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  • With a hand raised to the driver, a station employee waves the departure of a train at London Bridge mainline station.
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  • New architecture that overlooks the railway tracks and passing trains, seen from a train carriage travelling north towards Victoria station, on 18th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • Cranes and lifting equipment raise wreckage from a train carriage after the Clapham rail disaster at Wandsworth, on 12th December 1988, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    clapham_crash-12-12-1988.jpg
  • A Puma helicopter (one of a pair) takes-off from Ruskin Park at 10.50pm, on 7th March 2017, in the London borough of Lambeth, England. Pumas in ones or twos occasionally land for a few minutes with engines running before departing again for other destinations. It's believed these landings help train flight crews for future evacuation of VIPs in times of emergency using open space locations like public parks. On this occasion, the two aircraft landed with lights off (so perhaps using night-vision) in the darkness.
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  • A Puma helicopter (one of a pair) takes-off from Ruskin Park at 10.50pm, on 6th March 2017, in the London borough of Lambeth, England. Pumas in ones or twos occasionally land for a few minutes with engines running before departing again for other destinations. It's believed these landings help train flight crews for future evacuation of VIPs in times of emergency using open space locations like public parks. On this occasion, the two aircraft landed with lights off (so perhaps using night-vision) in the darkness.
    ruskin_puma-02-06-03-2017.jpg
  • A 90s departures board displays the times and destinations of rail services heading south from this London station hub. Routes to the south coasts towns of Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings departing in the afternoon from the capital. The Train Not Ready signs are also displayed telling passengers that carriages have yet to be designated and their platforms unallocated.
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  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
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  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
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  • Rush hour train commuters blur through London Bridge mainline Station, walking en-route to exit and security barriers
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  • A Puma helicopter (one of a pair) takes-off from Ruskin Park at 10.50pm, on 7th March 2017, in the London borough of Lambeth, England. Pumas in ones or twos occasionally land for a few minutes with engines running before departing again for other destinations. It's believed these landings help train flight crews for future evacuation of VIPs in times of emergency using open space locations like public parks. On this occasion, the two aircraft landed with lights off (so perhaps using night-vision) in the darkness.
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  • A landscape of a Network Rail railway crossing consisting of warning signs that tell crossing pedestrians of the dangers of overhead electricity wires - and to listen and look for approaching trains whose route takes them across agricultural marshland near Hadleigh Castle, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • A detail of an emergency Network Rail railway phone at a rail crossing for approaching trains whose route takes them across agricultural marshland near Hadleigh Castle, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • A landscape of a Network Rail railway crossing consisting of warning signs that tell crossing pedestrians of the dangers of overhead electricity wires - and to listen and look for approaching trains whose route takes them across agricultural marshland near Hadleigh Castle, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-26-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of a Network Rail railway crossing consisting of warning signs that tell crossing pedestrians of the dangers of overhead electricity wires - and to listen and look for approaching trains whose route takes them across agricultural marshland near Hadleigh Castle, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-25-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of a Network Rail railway crossing consisting of warning signs that tell crossing pedestrians of the dangers of overhead electricity wires - and to listen and look for approaching trains whose route takes them across agricultural marshland near Hadleigh Castle, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-24-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of a Network Rail railway crossing consisting of warning signs that tell crossing pedestrians of the dangers of overhead electricity wires - and to listen and look for approaching trains whose route takes them across agricultural marshland near Hadleigh Castle, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
    estuary_walk-23-10-09-2019.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. Carrying 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test of pull-ups for the Gurkha Regiment, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Firefighters line-up before a training morning at Heathrow airport's jet fire simulator facility, on 18th March 2000, at Heathrow Airport, London, UK. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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