THE London Underground carries 4.8 million passengers per day, on 543 trains that run across and beneath the capital.

So it's no surprise that -- coffee in one hand and a phone in the other -- we're all guilty of shuffling through our morning commute taking no notice of our surroundings.

But, if you can, next time you catch the Tube, take a moment to appreciate the architecture of the world's oldest underground railway. 

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Commissioned by lenders Pounds to Pocket, a team trawled through all 270 Underground stations and identified 82 of them as the most architecturally-recognised buildings.

The aim was to inspire travellers to see the stations in a new light and to explore the network with the eyes of a tourist.

Illustrator Luis Gómez Feliu spent more than 82 hours painstakingly sketching each station and here they are: 

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