Another successful project similarly proves that urban poetry needn't be intimidating or elitist, but simply accessible: Poems on the Underground, a public art project funded by the Arts Council and now celebrating its 30th year, has seen 600 poems grace the inside carriages of the Tube and been emulated from New York to Shanghai.
Inside, the carriage is upholstered in crimson damask, and very comfortable it is too.
The rest of the passengers inside the carriage all became rather quiet.
The footage shows the dramatic scene inside the carriage where four men, three from the US and one British man living in France, tackled and restrained the gunman.
One afternoon, he confronted Taulbee, just inside the Carriage Entrance Door, pulled out a pistol, and shot him in the head.
Inside our carriage all was warm - hot water in the tiny steel bathroom, strong tea brewed in Ilena's samovar and sweet, tobacco-scented siroccos wafting in from the corridors.
After waiting in something quite like a service station car park, you drive along a platform, manoeuvre your vehicle inside the carriage, and then sit there, or stand by your car awkwardly, as you plunge through darkness.
Hugh Jackman, in the role of the good-at-heart ex-convict Jean Valjean, was inside a carriage, his arm around 10-year-old Isabelle Allen, playing the young Cosette, whom he had rescued from her cruel guardians.
You've just been in a crash.' I was looking out at these people and inside the carriage it was just black devastation and we were shouting, 'Help me.
And, while polite society would applaud the presence of a beautiful young woman inside the carriage, eyebrows would be raised at the gentleman accompanying her, who seems to have been bolted and stitched together from portions of other gentlemen.
