Can the inconvenience have been worthwhile? It all started rather more than six years ago in 1962, but they really got weaving in 1963. How They Dug the Victoria Line, BBC 1969
Today, the Tube is bursting at its seams. ibid.
To slash right across the existing system and bring the underground to a new region in the north-east. By any standard it was a hell of an undertaking. ibid.
St Petersburg metro: Mass transport for the masses but why shouldn’t stations be like palaces above ground. Here there are wide sweeping staircases, marble and grandeur everywhere. Here, look at this: there are more chandeliers than in Liberace’s living-room … Every day more than 2.5 million St Petersburgers use the metro, and all journeys cost less than 65p. Cruising with Jane McDonald s2e1: The Baltic, Channel 5 2020