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Are you standing comfortably?

Underground trains are designed to carry large numbers of people as rapidly as possible over fairly short distances. Passengers need to get on and off quickly and easily, but also want to travel in reasonable comfort. There has to be a balance between sitting and standing space inside the train.

The Metropolitan, District, Circle and East London lines run in tunnels with enough clearance to accommodate overground size trains. The circular tunnels on the seven deep-level Tube lines are smaller: 3.6m (12 feet) in diameter.

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Image of a Elephant & Castle Underground station, Northern and Bakerloo lines, 1924

Postcard

Image of a Unused colour illustrated postcard 'Greater Tokyo, Subway at Ueno Station', Tokyo, c1935

Postcard

Image of a Colour photographic postcard of Glasgow Underground train, c1980

Postcard

Image of a Colour illustrated postcard of Chicago subway, c1945

Postcard

Image of a Colour illustrated postcard of Paris Metro, c1910

Postcard

Image of a Colour illustrated postcard of Berlin underground, 1913

Postcard

Image of a Colour postcard of Hamburg underground, c1905

Postcard

Image of a Colour illustrated postcard of Kyoto underground, c1930

Postcard

Image of a Black and white photographic postcard of Moscow Metro, 1938

Postcard

Image of a Colour illustrated postcard of the Toronto Subway, 1957

Postcard

Image of a Unused colour illustrated postcard of City Hall subway station, New York, circa 1904

Colour digital image

Image of a Interior view of a 1992 Central line tube carriage

Train model

Image of a 1:43 scale model of 1996 tube stock, presented to Denis Tunnicliffe on completion of Alstom contract, March 2000

Photograph

Image of a Interior of a Piccadilly line tube car, showing a number of seated passengers, some reading newspapers, July 1951

Photograph

Image of a Seated passengers travelling onboard a 1938 tube stock car operating on the Bakerloo line, 29 Apr 1949

Train model

Image of a 1:20 scale model of 1905 District Railway B stock driving motor car, made in 1993

Train model

Image of a Model of sectioned Underground standard-tube stock, made c1935

Train model

Image of a Model of sectioned rolling stock, made c1935

Train model

Image of a Sectioned model of tube car, made c1935

Poster

Image of a Poster; Into the heart, artist unknown, 1909
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