Fun fact: this is the only Tube station to be named after TWO types of cheese
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- Eyes to the skies tonight 👀 At 9pm, the Shard will light up to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and to honour those who served and lived through it.
- Happy 153rd birthday to Piet Mondrian. Love his work on the London Underground
- Happy 160th birthday to the London Underground! 🎉 Its first line - the Metropolitan Railway (pictured being dug, below) - opened to the public on this day in 1863. What's your fave station on the tube map?
- What do we make of St Pancras's bookish Christmas tree this year (it features a winding staircase and 270 shelves adorned with over 3,800 hand-painted books)?
- ❄️ 🌨️ OK Londoners... let's do a good old-fashioned crowdsource. It's 8am as this goes out. How much snow are you getting in YOUR part of London, because we're getting a billion flakes per second up here near Barnet
- Battersea Power Station (station) officially in business now 💫 One of the two first new northern line stations to be opened for 80 years
- Huge congrats to the Lionesses! Now, TfL... can we have this?
- Merry Christmas, London. Miss you, love you and, even in the weirdest of times, ludicrously grateful for you 💛
- 27 marvellous things for you to do in London this week
