A good moustache imparts great style, character, and gravitas to the wearer; a poor one subtracts equally. Here are some moustaches related to transport out and about in London, real and fictional.
May or may not have travelled to London. But makes up the points with classic moustache style.
Howard Carey, moustachioed Underground driver from the age of steam, celebrates at 150th anniversary of the Underground (LT Museum).
Full points for Dali-esque moustache tips, immediately lost for the unkempt ZZ Top-like beard.
Full marks for the full handlebar, and bonus points for creating a number of Underground lines, which he then lost for the way in which he financed the schemes.
All his efforts evidently went into his substantial engineering advances and not grooming, but the Mormon-like Greathead Soup Strainer moustache and beard wouldn’t look out of place today.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette, Chief Engineer of Metropolitan Board of Works, who designed the Embankment into which the District and Circle Lines were ensconced. Full marks for the full Hungarian stache.
Terrible stache but a memorable character in a show beloved by busmen and buswomen all over Britain.
We are on the lookout for more – do feel free to add your own suggestions!
Movember is still a thing – and it’s expanded to promote men’s health in the following areas:
- Mental health and suicide prevention – Suicide is largely preventable
- Prostate cancer – Globally, 9.9M men are living with or beyond prostate cancer
- Testicular cancer – The world’s most common cancer among men aged 15-39
This is not an advert, but a public service announcement.
The unknown TfL employee is Jonathan, aka Mustachio, who is behind the beautiful calligraphy whiteboards you will sometimes see at Covent Garden and Leicester Square stations. He’s also a big fan of poetry, and has worked with Poems on the Underground to read some of their work for TfL social media: https://twitter.com/TfL/status/1306559213292920834?s=20
Do enthusiasts’ facial growths count?
Is the internet yet ready for my picture? 😁
Do pre-Grouping railway officers, whose railways came into the capital – count?
If so, I nominate: H A Ivatt
Or, of course, Dugald Drummond
Ivatt’s got a real sheepdog moustache (not the official name of the style…).
Patrick Stirling
John Ramsbottom
Moustache only … C J Bowen-Cooke
James Holden
And … G J Churchward’s wonderful soup-strainer ‘tache!