Busy packed summer Jubilee tube train carriage, London Underground, England, UK

Image details
Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2JJG0DFFile size:
54.3 MB (1.5 MB Compressed download)Releases:
Model - no | Property - noDo I need a release?Dimensions:
5472 x 3468 px | 46.3 x 29.4 cm | 18.2 x 11.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
23 July 2022Location:
Baker Street, London, England, UKMore information:
. Recorded at Baker Street, London, England, UK in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The principal subject is Busy packed summer Jubilee tube train carriage, London Underground, England, UK. The image also relates to social landscape, trackside history, contemporary social history, local identity, freight wagon, rolling stock, pedestrian environment, urban change, local history, public transport network, rail mobility, community identity, townscape record, and historical comparison. The modern context includes continuing discussion of decarbonisation, fares and the continuing importance of rail to regional connectivity. For current editorial use, footfall and regeneration provide additional context, especially through the documentary importance of recording everyday urban environments. Small period details of local activity and public use at Baker Street, London, England, UK may become more significant with time, particularly following new construction. The subject also sits alongside regional rail, everyday life, city-centre activity, archival record, transport interchange, rail corridor, place identity, and public realm. References to Underground, summer, train, packed, and carriage give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The period setting at Baker Street, London, England, UK helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. A further contemporary connection is decarbonisation and how historic rolling stock documents the industrial railway within the specific setting of Baker Street, London, England, UK. The wider significance includes footfall and how regeneration alters the character of familiar places as part of the longer story of Baker Street, London, England, UK.