Underground all-pink subway opens inside £1m Archie's burger and shake diner in Manchester

A spectacular all-pink underground subway station has now opened inside the original Archie's burger and milkshake diner in Manchester. The Oxford Road site has undergone a £1m transformation from the Manchester brothers behind the burgeoning brand.

Now they've unveiled the centrepiece of the development - a recreation of a New York style subway train in the basement. Archie's is famous for its all-pink interiors and each new site has offered more inventive places for customers to dine and grab a selfie.

But the pink subway is their most inventive yet - and features video screens to emulate the feeling of being on an actual train. There is booth seating on board though, so you can eat your burgers and shakes while admiring the extraordinary setting.

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Archie's founder Imran Rafiq said: "We just wanted to do something different that hasn't been done before. It's an underground basement in the restaurant so we thought how could we make that exciting?

"So the idea came to create a New York subway but Archie's style. We've got the whole feeling of it with there being a billboard, route map everything you'd expect to see in any subway."

The investment in the original Archie's diner, which first opened in the city 10 years ago, comes amid big plans from the the Manchester-founded company. They have previously announced plans to take Archie's "to the next level" with a multi-million pound rollout of new concept diners across the UK.

The diner was closed for six months for the transformation. The design is all a nod to subway stations in the US, with a mix of pink grids, metal frames with video screens and diner-style seating.

There's even a special