Picture source: London Remembers
This was the world's first underground passenger railway which opened from Paddington to Farringdon via Baker Street Station on 10th January 1863.
IanVisits has reproduced an Illustrated London News report on the construction of this line. Our picture is a detail off the Company's 1912 HQ in Allsop Place NW1.
Londonist have published a great piece on this historic infrastructure - they've even nailed the first piece of rude underground graffiti.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Metropolitan Railway Company
The walls of both platforms are adorned with information boards giving the hi...
Made of Carrara marble. The list of names is contained within an arch compose...
London's roads were heavily congested, the railways stopped on the fringes of...
Metropolitan Railway The world's first underground railway opened from Paddin...
Great Portland Street is a London Underground station on the Circle, Hammers...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Metropolitan Railway Company
This plaque is somewhat reticent about its function which is to commemorate t...
Made of Carrara marble. The list of names is contained within an arch compose...
The accident, caused by driver error after a signal failure, occurred on the Central line of the London Underground. A signal in the tunnel between Stratford and Leyton had been damaged, and this a...
It derives its name from the fact that It was King Charles II’s private road to Kew and wasn’t opened to the general public until 1830. Mary Quant opened her shop ‘Bazaar’ here in 1955. Along with ...
"In use in the 18th and 19th centuries" so the dates we give are very approximate.
A terminus of the London and Greenwich Railway, London's first railway. The original station was badly located and had a very narrow platform. Passengers were supposed to queue on the steps outside...