The Origins of Neverwhere

Looking at maps of the London Underground, and at their odd, rather obtuse, and impossible to navigate website, I can now see where Neil Gaiman got the idea for Neverwhere from.

This will require a new level of insanity that I have not tapped into since Tokyo.

...it also turns out that my relatives live at the goddamned fringes of the tube lines. Hillingdon. The frelling penultimate stop on the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines. They do this to torture me, I swear to god.