The Subterranean Railway (46 page)

Ruislip Manor,
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Ruislip Manor Ltd,
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Russell Square,
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St James’s Park,
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St John’s Wood,
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St Pancras,
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St Paul’s Cathedral,
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Sandy Lodge,
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Scotland,
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Scotland Yard,
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Selbie, Robert,
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Selfridges,
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Sellon, Stephen,
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Sevenoaks,
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‘sewer-rats’,
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Shakespeare, William,
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Shaw, Norman,
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Shenfield,
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Shepherd’s Bush,
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Sheridan, H. B.,
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Shillibeer, George,
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Shoreditch,
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Siemens, Sir William (Wilhelm),
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signalling,
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Sloane Square,
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Smithfield,
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smoking,
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Snow Hill,
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songs,
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South Acton,
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South Eastern Railway,
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South Harrow,
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South Kensington,
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South Kentish Town,
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South London Press
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South Sea Bubble,
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Southend,
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Southern Railway,
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Southgate,
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Southwark,
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Speyer, Sir Edgar,
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Spiers and Pond,
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spivs,
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Stalin, Josef,
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Stamford Hill,
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Stanley, Albert,
see
Ashfield, Lord

Stanmore,
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Star
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station staff,
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stations

architecture,
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cast-iron construction,
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distance between,
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on inclines,
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lighting,
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upgrades,
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steamboats,
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Stephenson, George,
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Stephenson, Robert,
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Stockwell,
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Stoke Mandeville,
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Strand, The,
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straphanging,
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Stratford,
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strip tickets,
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Submarine Railway Company,
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Sunday Dispatch
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Sutherland, Graham,
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Sutton,
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Swiss Cottage,
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Tate Gallery,
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Tavistock Square,
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Temple,
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Tennant, Henry,
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terrorist attacks,
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Thames Embankment,
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Thames Tunnel,
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Thameslink,
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Thatcher, Margaret,
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theatres,
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Thomas, J.P.,
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Thrush, Ernest,
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Times, The
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and Central London Railway,
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and City & South London Railway,
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and electrification,
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and Metropolitan and District construction,
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and strip tickets,
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Tooting,
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Tottenham,
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Tottenham Court Road,
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Tower Bridge,
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Tower Hill,
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Tower of London,
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Tower Subway,
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track gauge,
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Trafalgar Square,
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train stop system,
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trams,
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and network integration,
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tramways

American,
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LCC,
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Transport & General Workers Union,
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Transport for London,
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Travelcards,
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Trav-o-lators,
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Tring,
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Trinity Square,
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Tube Lines,
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tunnel collapses,
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tunnels

cut and cover method,
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deepest on network,
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East London line,
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shield method,
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Tunnicliffe, Denis,
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Turnham Green,
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Twain, Mark,
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Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL),
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attention to detail,
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improvements,
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and London & North Western,
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and network integration,
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and wartime,
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Underground Group of

Companies,
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unemployment,
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United States Steel Corporation,
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university boat race,
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Upminster,
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Uxbridge,
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Uxendon Hill,
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Verney Junction,
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Victoria, Queen,
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Victoria,
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Victoria & Albert Museum,
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Victoria Line,
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Vienna,
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Walthamstow,
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Wanstead,
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Wapping,
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Waterloo,
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Waterloo & City Line,
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Watford,
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Watford Junction,
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Watford Observer
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Watkin, Edward,
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Channel Tunnel scheme,
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expansion plans,
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rivalry with Forbes,
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‘Watkin’s folly’,
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Watling Estate,
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Wealdstone,
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Webb, Sidney and Beatrice,
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weighing machines,
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Wells, H.G.,
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Wembley,
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Wembley Park,
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Wendover,
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West Brompton,
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West Croydon,
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West Hampstead,
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West India Dock,
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West Indians,
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West Kensington,
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West London Advertiser
,
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West London Line,
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West London Railway,
see
West London Line

West Ruislip,
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Westbourne, river,
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Westbourne Grove,
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Westminster,
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Westminster Central Hall,
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White City,
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White Star Line,
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Whitechapel,
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Whiteleys,
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Willesden,
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Willesden Green,
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Willesden Junction,
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Williams, Watkin,
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Willing, J.,
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Wimbledon,
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Windsor,
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Wire, David,
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Wolseley, Lieutenant General Sir Garnet,
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women staff,
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Wood Green,
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Wood Lane,
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Woodcock Hill and Woodcock Dell Estates,
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Woolwich,
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workmen’s trains,
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Wright, Whitaker,
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Yerkes, Charles Tyson,
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in America,
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his death,
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District Railway takeover,
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fares policy,
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forward thinking,
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and J.P. Morgan,
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and profit-sharing notes,
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property speculation,
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and UERL,
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Yerkes Observatory,
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Zeppelins,
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ILLUSTRATIONS

Traffic chaos on the streets, print by Gustave Doré

The ‘Great Victorian Way’ by Sir Joseph Paxton (Copyright © TfL reproduced courtesy of London Transport Museum)

The pneumatic railway at Crystal Palace (TfL)

Charles Pearson (TfL)

‘Cut and cover’ at Parliament Square

Notting Hill Gate station (TfL)

Sir Edward Watkin (TfL)

James Staats Forbes (TfL)

A Circle line train approaches Aldgate (TfL)

Station advertising on the underground railways (TfL)

First-class travel

Earls Court station (TfL)

Inhospitable carriages on the first tube trains

Boat race day at Baker Street station

The Big Wheel at Earls Court (TfL)

Central London Railway locomotive (TfL)

Building a station using the Greathead shield (TfL)

A 1908 map of the Underground

A 1932 map of the Underground

A modern-day version of Harry Beck’s map of the Underground (TfL)

A 1905 poster advertising the ‘Twopenny Tube’ (TfL)

Down Street station, Mayfair (TfL)

Charles Yerkes (TfL)

A station assistant at Queens Park station (TfL)

Gatewoman at work during the First World War

Lord Ashfield and his daughter at the reopening of the City & South London Railway (TfL)

Sudbury Town station (TfL)

An Underground poster advertising season tickets (TfL)

The cover of the 1930
Metroland
booklet (TfL)

Display of animals killed by trains at Charing Cross station, 1929 (TfL)

Frank Pick (TfL)

A 1930 poster encouraging people to go to the cinema (TfL)

A 1925 redesign of the famous roundel (TfL)

Crowds at Colindale on their way to RAF Hendon (TfL)

A crowded escalator during the Blitz (Getty Images)

Tube Refreshments Special

West Indian applicants for London Transport jobs (TfL)

A poster advertising the newly opened Victoria line (TfL)

Canary Wharf station (TfL)

The subterranean railway beneath Piccadilly Circus (TfL)