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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.
- Tube map
The Tube map (sometimes called the London Underground map)...
- Timeline of The London Underground
The transport system now known as the London Underground...
- Tube map
O Metropolitano de Londres, também conhecido como Metro de Londres (português europeu) ou Metrô de Londres (português brasileiro), ou no seu nome original London Underground, conhecido ainda por The Tube, Tube, The Underground ou Underground, é um sistema de metropolitano que serve grande parte da Grande Londres e as áreas vizinhas de ...
- The First Underground Railways
- Electric Underground Railways
- Integration
- London Passenger Transport Board
- Nationalisation
- Transport For London
- Goods Traffic
- See Also
During the first half of the 19th century, London had grown greatly and the development of a commuting population arriving by train each day led to traffic congestion with carts, cabs and omnibuses filling the roads. By 1850, there were seven railway termini located around the urban centre of London and the concept of an underground railway linking...
Deep-level tubes
During 1869, a passage was dug through the London Clay under the Thames from Great Tower Hill to Pickle Herring Stairs near Vine Street (now Vine Lane). A circular 7-foot-diameter (2.1 m) tunnel was dug 1,340 feet (410 m), using a wrought iron shield, a method that had been patented in 1864 by Peter William Barlow. A railway was laid in the tunnel and from August 1870 a wooden carriage conveyed passengers from one side to the other. This was uneconomic and the company went bankrupt by the end...
District and Metropolitan electrification
On the District and Metropolitan Railways, the use of steam locomotives led to smoke-filled stations and carriages that were unpopular with passengers and electrification was seen as the way forward. Electric traction was still in its infancy and agreement would be needed between the two companies because of the shared ownership of the inner circle. A tender was announced for an electric system, and the largest European and American companies applied to win the contract. When the experts of t...
Underground Electric Railways Company of London
The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, was authorised from Charing Cross to Hampstead and Highgate in 1893, but had not found financial backing. Yerkes bought the rights in 1900, and obtained additional approval for a branch from Camden Town to Golders Green. The Baker Street and Waterloo Railway had been authorised to run from Baker Street to Waterloo station. Work began in 1898, and extensions to Paddington station and Elephant & Castle were authorised in 1900, but came to a halt...
London Underground
To promote travel by the underground railways in London, a joint marketing arrangement was agreed that included maps, joint publicity and through ticketing. UNDERGROUND signs were used outside stations in Central London. The UERL acquired London bus and tram companies in 1912 and the following year the City & South London and Central London Railway joined the company. That year the Great Northern & City was taken over by the Met. Suggestions of merger with the Underground Group were rejected...
During 1933, Harry Beck's diagrammatic tube map appeared for the first time. On 1 July 1933, the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB), was created as a public corporation and the Metropolitan, the UERL underground railways, tramway companies and bus operators were merged into one organisation. On the former Metropolitan Railway the Brill Branch ...
Britain's railways were nationalised on 1 January 1948, and London Transport placed under the authority of the British Transport Commission (BTC). The BTC prioritised the reconstruction of the main line railways over the maintenance of the Underground and most of the unfinished plans of the 1935–40 New Works Programme were shelved or postponed. For...
Transport for London (TfL) was created during 2000 as part of the Greater London Authority by the Greater London Authority Act 1999.TfL eventually replaced London Regional Transport, and discontinued the use of the London Transport brand in favour of its own brand. The transfer of responsibility was staged, with transfer of control of London Underg...
Goods trains ran over Metropolitan tracks from 1866 when the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and then the Midland Railways began a service to south of the Thames via Farringdon and Snow Hill tunnel. Goods depots were opened in the Farringdon area, accessed from the City Widened Lines. The GWR opened Smithfield Market Sidings in 1869, the GNR opened it...
London transit: 1. Docklands Light Railway 2. London Overground 3. Tramlink Other subway histories: 1. History of the New York City Subway
16 de mai. de 2024 · London Underground, underground railway system that services the London metropolitan area. The London Underground was proposed by Charles Pearson, a city solicitor, as part of a city improvement plan shortly after the opening of the Thames Tunnel in 1843.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
"No seu primeiro relatório anual, a London Underground Ltd estava capaz de anunciar e afirmar que o sistema de metropolitano havia sido utilizado por mais passageiros do que antes fora. Em 1985-86, o Metropolitano de Londres serviu mais de 762 milhões de passageiros - bem acima do seu record anterior, com um total de 720 milhões ...
