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t. e. The history of the London Underground began in the 19th century with the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. The Metropolitan Railway, which opened in 1863 using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, worked with the District Railway to complete London's Circle line in 1884.
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. [5] The Underground has its origins in the Metropolitan Railway, opening on 10 January 1863 as the world's ...
t. e. The transport system now known as the London Underground began in 1863 with the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. Over the next forty years, the early sub-surface lines reached out from the urban centre of the capital into the surrounding rural margins, leading to the development of new commuter suburbs.
Secrets of the London Underground is a British factual documentary series presented by railway historian Tim Dunn and London Transport Museum 's Engagement Manager Siddy Holloway, co-developer of 'Hidden London', the museum's programme of tours that gives visitors access to disused and historical parts of the network. [3][4] Secrets of the ...
This espionage story culminates in the war-time bunker built in the uncompleted tunnels of North End station, although this is incorrectly identified as Paddock, a separate bunker in Dollis Hill. Conrad Williams: London Revenant (2004) Catherine Storr: The Underground Conspiracy (1987), children's/teen novel. A teenage girl who travels on the ...
In 2015, a former London police detective called Geoff Platt published a book about Kelly called The London Underground Serial Killer, which claimed that Kelly had murdered about 31 people, and which alleged that the British Home Office had conspired to cover up Kelly's crimes to avoid a public panic. [4]
In 2013 he directed a six-part TV series on London with specials on the London Underground, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. He also wrote The Story of the London Underground published that same year. (GU2) The following year he produced and directed Glyndebourne:the Untold History (90 mins) for BBC TV.
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.