TfL has launched its first podcast series to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground network.<\/p>\n
Transport for London (TfL) has launched its first podcast series to celebrate the 160th\u00a0anniversary of London Underground.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Hosted by railway historian and broadcaster Tim Dunn, the four 30-minute episodes shine a light on the iconic transport network, looking at the architecture and history of stations, innovation in transport, and how public transport connects people and places.<\/p>\n In the first three episodes of Mind the Gap \u2013 Tube 160, Tim, who presents Secrets of the London Underground on UKTV\u2019s Yesterday channel and UKTV Play, interviews a broad range of people who are united by their love of the tube.<\/p>\n Special guests include Wayne Hemingway, world-renowned designer and co-founder of HemingwayDesign, who designed the uniforms for London Underground frontline staff, the \u2018Tube Mapper\u2019 photographer\u202fLuke Agbaimoni, Amy Lam\u00e9, the co-founder of Duckie\u202fand London\u2019s Night Czar, and Geoff Marshall, a popular online video producer who runs a transport-themed YouTube channel and website, as well as many other experts and TfL staff.<\/p>\n In the fourth episode, Tim meets \u2013 and journeys with \u2013 one of his broadcasting heroes, TV and radio presenter (and fellow self-professed tube fan) Rylan \u2013 from central London towards Rylan\u2019s home town in Essex.<\/p>\n Tim said: \u201cAs a huge tube enthusiast for all of my life, it\u2019s a privilege to take the audience on a journey through fascinating and unusual aspects of the network to celebrate the 160 year anniversary of London Underground. Each episode is an open love letter, sharing the enthusiasm and dedication of fellow transport lovers, customers and TfL staff.\u201d<\/p>\n Andy Lord, London\u2019s Transport Commissioner, said:\u00a0\u201cMind the Gap is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the London Underground\u2019s journey. I would like to thank everyone who has been involved in this project and would encourage everyone to give the podcast a listen.\u201d<\/p>\n The series is available on all major podcast platforms.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TfL has launched its first podcast series to celebrate 160 years of the London Underground network. Transport for London (TfL) has launched its first podcast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage-trains","category-rail-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}