Photographer Mark McEvoy documented London Underground passengers on Friday and Saturday nights between 1992 and 1995, capturing revellers, lovers and members of the city’s varied youth subcultures. The images matter as a record of late-night social life before smartphones and the Night Tube, when many people rushed for the final train home.

McEvoy, then involved in London’s music scene, was inspired by the mix of ages, races, sexualities and styles he saw on journeys from nights out. He generally sought permission before photographing people, preserving scenes featuring punks, goths, rockabillies and casuals amid the era’s distinctive trains and fashions. The article argues that, although youth culture and drinking habits have changed, the emotional energy of London’s night-time journeys remains recognisable.