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Finely crafted, comfortable, robust and contemporary, this Limited Edition Tube Trainer is made by sweat shop free, European labour. Upper: Restored London Underground seat covers. Trim: 100% recycled or repurposed leather. Sole: 33% recycled tyre rubber. All 100% salvaged UK waste. Remade in Portugal. Retroflective safety strip on heel.
THE FABRIC
This pattern was used for a series of refurbishments during the early 1990's on the 1956/1959 Tube stock that operated on the Northern line. The geometric design of black rhomboids with mauve and orange lines and white highlights on a mauve and orange background was designed by Tilney, Lumsden and Shane.
THE LINE
The Northern Line was originally two lines, one called the City and South London Railway (C&S.L.R) and the other the Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway (C.C.E & H.R). The C & S.L.R. was London's first deep Tube railway. It opened between King William Street in the City and Stockwell in December 1890. In 1900, it was extended to Moorgate Street in the north, and southwards to Clapham North. The C.C.E & H.R. line opened in 1907. The original extent was from the Strand (Charing Cross) in the south, splitting at Camden Town, where one fork went to Golders Green and the other to Highgate (now Archway). During the 1920s, the line was extended to Edgware (1924) and linked to C&S.L.R. to form the Northern line. In the late 1930s, the Highgate branch was extended to link up with an existing overground suburban railway at East Finchley, taking Tube trains on to High Barnet and Mill Hill East in 1939-40.
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