Picture source: London Remembers
This was the world's first underground passenger railway.
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.
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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...
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...
Full name James Keaney White. Took command of HMS Peruvian in October 1814. S...
A railway company which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Li...
Aircraft designer and manufacturer. His company manufactured the Halifax bomb...
the V&A (our picture source) hold in their collection part of the façade ...
