Seats of London
A Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns
$41.20
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2026
Summary
Moquette is the carpet-like fabric covering the seats on London’s Tubes, buses, trams and Overground trains – and here is a brilliantly colourful guide to all its patterns.
Since this colourful and idiosyncratic little book was first published in 2019 it has gone on to sell over 13,000 copies over 7 printings, while the London Transport Museum’s moquette merchandise – everything from socks to sofas – has become a must-have style accessory.
In the meantime, TfL has continued to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781068516238 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1068516232 |
| Author: | Andrew Martin |
| Publisher: | Safe Haven Books |
| Imprint: | Safe Haven Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 160mm x 160mm |
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Critics Review
‘A wittily written book’, Twentieth-Century Society magazine
’A little gem of a book and, as its title suggests, is intended to be used much like a wildlife field guide. I recommend this book as a charming introduction to railway design’, Text, the journal of the Textile Society
’A delightful book on an intriguing facet of London Transport - a fascinating niche, and I found it much more compelling than, say, rivet-counting on Josher-bowed narrowboats or valve gear on GWR locomotives. All in all, Andrew Martin has written an intriguing book that has opened up a facet of London’s transport to a wider audience and he easily succeeds in hitting his sitting target,’ Subterranea
Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin is author of the bestseller To the Sea by Train, as well as the Jim Stringer railway crime novels. His detective thriller The Moquette Mystery is also published by Safe Haven.
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