A London Transport booklet from 1964 with a few ideas for visiting villages around London.
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A London Transport booklet from 1964 with a few ideas for visiting villages around London.
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A 1938 leaflet issued by London Transport with ideas for days out by Underground, bus and Green Line Coach.
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A London Transport leaflet announcing changes to bus routes 26 and 84, starting 27 September 1980.
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A London Transport leaflet from September 1961 informing Metropolitan line passengers of upcoming changes to the line between Amersham and Harrow-on-the-Hill.
New rolling stock, electrification and additional tracks would lead to an improvement in services on the whole line.
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Here we see the northern entrance to the disused Tower Subway on Petty Wales. Tower Subway is considered to be the world's first 'Tube' railway, a cast iron circular tunnel with a diameter of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and a length of 410 m (1,340 ft). A 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge railway was laid in the tunnel which carried cable-hauled cars carrying just twelve people. James Henry Greathead took on the task of constructing the subway, which started in February 1869 and was completed in less than a year.
This short underground railway opened to the paying public on 2 August 1870. However, the service was unprofitable, and the company went into receivership in November the same year. The railway closed on 7 December 1870.
The tunnel was rapidly converted into a foot tunnel and was opened to paying pedestrians on 24 December 1870 by the Tower Bridge Subway Company. The foot tunnel was a success until the nearby toll-free Tower Bridge opened in 1894. A huge drop in the number of paying pedestrians caused the tunnel to close in 1898 and be sold to the London Hydraulic Power Company (LHPC). The entrance shown in the photos is not the original entrance but a replacement built by the LHPC in 1926.
On the left in the top photo is Tiger Tavern public house. The pub stood on this site in one form or another from 1504 until 1991.
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Looking north along Portsmouth Street from Sheffield Street.
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Looking south down Upper Street from Highbury Corner.
On the right is The Cock Tavern next to Highbury & Islington station. The pub was demolished in 1956 and a new pub was built on the site. It is currently called The Famous Cock Tavern.
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Times of northbound Northern line services from central London to High Barnet and Mill Hill East.
Starting April 20 1970
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A 1997 flyer giving times of trains to central London from High Barnet, Totteridge & Whetstone, Woodside Park and West Finchley starting 28 September.
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In the left photo we see St Augustine's, Kilburn on the left and St John the Evangelist church on the right.
St John the Evangelist church was built in 1871 and closed in its centenary year when it was joined with St Augustine's. The building was demolished after being damaged by a fire in 1975.
In the right photo we see that St Augustine's, which was founded in 1870 and consecrated in 1880, is still towering over this part of Kilburn.
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A London Transport booklet from January 1948 containing conditions of issue for passenger tickets on London Transport buses and coaches.
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Looking north along Ladbroke Grove from Holland Park Avenue.
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In the top photo we see a 1938 Stock train working a northbound Bakerloo line service to Wembley Park. In the bottom photo, a 1996 Stock train working a Jubilee line service to Stanmore.
West Hampstead station was opened on 30 June 1879 and was the northern terminus of the Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway (MSJWR) until 24 November 1879. The line was extended first to Willesden Green in 1879 and then to Harrow, now called Harrow-on-the-Hill, in 1880, by which time the MSJWR had been absorbed by the Metropolitan Railway (MET). The MET itself was absorbed by the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) in July 1933.
On 20 November 1939, the stopping service between Finchley Road and Wembley Park, along with the branch to Stanmore, was transferred to the new branch of the Bakerloo line. The Metropolitan line last served West Hampstead station on 7 December 1940.
Services were transferred to the newly opened Jubilee line on 1 May 1979.
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Tooting Broadway station was opened on 13 September 1926 by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) as part of the extension of what is now the Northern line to Morden.
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Panel poster timetable for westbound Central line services to central London from Debden, Loughton and Buckhurst Hill stations.