#underground

24 posts · Last used Sep 24

The once top-secret abandoned bomb facility hidden in an old slate mine. Step inside the subterranean labyrinth of Llanberis Bomb Store, Wales. In the 1930s the slate quarry became a vast RAF munitions store. In January 1942, the roof collapsed burying 14,000 tonnes of bombs (14% of Britain's stock). It took until the 1970s to fully clear the site of bombs. #Llanberis #WorldWar2 #Engineering #History #Explore #Underground #WW2
229
18
140
0
Old Ruins – Der Ruf des Mount Arreat Mit „Mount Arreat“ setzen Old Ruins ihre musikalische Reise durch die Welt von #Diablo fort. Wir sprachen mit Christian „Kraje“ Krajewski über #Storytelling #Underground #Metal und die Entstehung des neuen Albums. by Norman Inspiriert von der düsteren Welt des Kultspiels Diablo erschaffen die Gelsenkirchener Klanglandschaften, die weit über klassische Fantasy-Themen hinausgehen.. https://vinyl-keks.eu/old-ruins-der-ruf-des-mount-arreat/ #oldruins #deathmetal #interview #blackmetal #music
0
0
1
0
What makes Harry Beck's London subway map endure? It has no unnecessary detail. His 1931 sketch, in coloured pencil and despite corrections, already shows the characteristics we still see today on transit maps worldwide. Management initially rejected Beck's idea—not map-like, too radical—but a 1933 trial proved it met the public's needs better than a geographically accurate map. Most passengers don't need geographic accuracy or distances on a transit map. They need to know the start point, direction, transfer point, and end point. They want to count: "How many stops?" and "How many zones?" Some want to locate stair-free access. Beck's Tube map resembles an electrical circuit, with different colours for different train lines. Stations are a simple mark, and a name. Connections are circles, and a name. There are now so many train lines that the latest version of Beck's map uses multiple line styles. #art #design #transit #graphic #map #London #UK #Tube #Underground #VictoriaAndAlbert
3
0
2
0
#Transport for #London’s #Art on the Underground has unveiled a new sound artwork at Waterloo #Underground station by composer and artist Ain Bailey with vocalist Elaine Mitchener. Maybe It’s Because I’m A #Londoner will play on the moving walkway between the Jubilee and Northern lines until 10 July. The six-and-a-half-minute work reflects on London’s disappearing cultural spaces and their role in shaping identity, paying tribute to more than 70 former community venues, record shops, LGBTQIA+ bars and landmarks that were significant to Bailey. Mitchener performs the names of the venues alongside a reinterpretation of Hubert Gregg’s Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner, with lyrics also displayed on station billboards. Commissioned with the Mayor of London’s #Culture and Community Spaces at Risk programme, the installation is the third annual sound commission for Waterloo.
3
0
5
0
💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🍄🌍 Scientists mapped arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi – the #underground fungal threads that connect #plant roots. Analyzing over 16,000 #soil cores from 322 studies, they found the network stretches 110 quadrillion(!) km in the topsoil, long enough to reach the #Sun nearly a billion times. #Grasslands and #prairies hold the densest networks, while #farming reduces fungal density by nearly half. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-web-of-fungus-inside-earth-could-reach-the-sun-a-billion-times #science #ecology #plants #carbon #map #nature #biology #climate #microscopy #research #study
7
0
22
0
#Transport for #London Freedom of Information release: #TfL has published details of the Public Service Contract with London #Underground Limited (LU) following a Freedom of Information request (FOI-4251-2526). The request sought copies of the agreement that expired on 30 November 2024 and the current contract. TfL confirmed it holds the information and provided the relevant documents. The current Agreement for the Provision of Public Passenger Transport Services on the London Underground is dated 4 December 2024 and commenced on 1 December 2024. It runs for 15 years until 30 November 2037. Made under the Public Service Obligations in Transport Regulations 2023, it designates LU, a wholly owned TfL subsidiary, as an internal operator. LU manages Underground passenger services in Greater London, excluding the DLR, Elizabeth line, Overground, Trams and Cable Car. LU is responsible for costs, with TfL providing funding to ensure no annual surplus or deficit.
0
0
1
0