At the beginning of News from Nowhere, William Morris’s novel about a utopian society of the future, the narrator takes a miserable journey from Farringdon to Hammersmith on the London Underground. He calls the tube ‘that stinking vapourbath of discontented humanity’.
That would have been in 1890. Fast forward 134 years, put him on the Elizabeth Line and the Arts and Crafts pioneer would take a very different view.
I ended up on this marvel of modern engineering
