The Anglican church of St Mary, Bourne Street, near Sloane Square, is renowned for its exotic liturgy and the number of statues of saints surrounded by candles. Every couple of minutes the candles flicker and the statues appear to wobble as a District Line train passes beneath.
An interesting observation by John Lanchester, in one of the series of books published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Underground, is about the care the original builders took to ensure they mostly tunnelled under roads to avoid expensive compensation claims: '... small shifts in direction... are being caused by the cost of the city up above you. London's history is full of themes, and one of those themes is the effect of rich people upon the city, and that's something you experience most times a Tube train does anything other than run straight.' [What we talk about when we talk about the Tube, Penguin 2013]
An interesting observation by John Lanchester, in one of the series of books published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Underground, is about the care the original builders took to ensure they mostly tunnelled under roads to avoid expensive compensation claims: '... small shifts in direction... are being caused by the cost of the city up above you. London's history is full of themes, and one of those themes is the effect of rich people upon the city, and that's something you experience most times a Tube train does anything other than run straight.' [What we talk about when we talk about the Tube, Penguin 2013]