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London
Tours by Tube
7
Hour Public Transport & Walking Tour
British
Tours Ltd's expert team of guides
include several specialist City of London walking tour
guides.
Meeting at Marble Arch and accompanied by a City of
London tour guide throughout the day, the tube tour
consists of 5 tube journeys, 3 London walks and visits
inside 3 of London's most important historic sights:-
• Westminster Abbey burial place of British
Monarchs since the 11 Century and setting for many Royal
Weddings and Coronations. Visit the American Chapel
commemorating the 28,000 Americans who died in operations
based in Britain during WWII.
• The Tower of London with 900 years of
History the Tower has been a Palace, Prison and setting for
many executions, including two wives of Henry VIII. Visit
the Bloody Tower where the two Princes were murdered by
their Uncle, Richard III, and where Sir Walter Raleigh was
imprisoned for 13 years.
• St Paul's Cathedral Christopher Wren's
Masterpiece built after the Great Fire of London 1666.
Prince Charles and Diana's Wedding took place here in 1982
and Winston Churchill's Funeral in 1965. Visit the
Cathedral's Whispering Gallery, where you can whisper on one
side of the Dome and hear it on the other.
This unique day out will give you a local experience of the
vast city of London travelling by public transport and by
foot with an specialist walking tour guide. It is a bit of a
marathon but a rewarding and educational day, rounded off
with a well deserved pint at one of the best London
pubs.
Please note: this tour involves between 2 and 3 miles
of walking and is only suitable for the fit and
energetic.
Price:
Expert City of London guide. 7 to 8 hours/private groups
of up to 10: £185. Entrance fees & lunch not
included. This tour follows a set route.
Please call our London office on 020 7038 0688 to
book a walking tour guide.
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The
London Underground is the World's biggest and oldest subway
system.
500 trains operate daily.
2 million people travel on the system each day.
Oxford Circus is the busiest station on the system with
22,500 people per hour using it during peak periods.
At peak periods the tube uses an incredible 2% of the
country's total electricity capacity.
780 million passenger journeys are made annually.
There are 270 stations on the system.
During peak periods trains run at 90 second intervals.
The total track length is 392 kilometres or 240 miles, of
which 105 miles are underground (20 miles in "cut &
cover" tunnels, 85 miles in "tube tunnels".
The world famous UNDERGROUND logo was agreed by the London
Passenger Traffic Conference in 1907.
When the Central Line, then called the Central Railway,
opened on 27 June 1900 there was an immediate and noticeable
decline in the sales of umbrellas. The reason attributed to
this was that gentlemen did not need to protect their silk
top hats as they had when sitting on open-top omnibuses.
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