see also seats
Carvel, John 241
Cassel, Sir Ernest 115–16
Castle, Barbara 239
Castling, Harry 82
celebrities 259
Central Line 4, 9, 113–20
Bank 105, 106, 220, 221
colour 199
and Crossrail 275
Epping 76
Epping-Ongar 201, 208–10
Holborn 263
on map 204
New Works programme 205, 207–8, 233
postcards 117
smell 119
stations 116–17, 207–8
Stratford 250
train frequency 115, 118
trains 114–15, 137, 147, 211
Tube Upgrade 255–6
and Waterloo & City Line 113
Central London Railway 101, 113, 114, 115–19, 133, 157–8, 159
Chalfont & Latimer 76, 77
Chalk Farm 146, 220
Chambers, Ajit 263
Chancery Lane 115, 116, 230
Channel tunnel 75
Chapman, Herbert 117
Charing Cross 48, 144, 152, 217
Jubilee Line 153, 240, 247, 249
music 228
Northern Line xii, 133, 175, 181
see also Embankment
Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway 129, 130, 133, 144, 148, 157–8, 175
and City & South London 177–81
Golders Green 175–7
South Kentish Town 263–4
see also Northern Line
Charmley, Keith 260
Cheap Trains Act 1883 47
Chelsea 274
Chelsea Monster 134, 139–41, 143
Chemin de Fer du Nord 73
Chesham 76–7, 150
Children of Light (Weightman) 83
Chiltern Court 172–3
Chiltern Railways 78
Chorleywood 76
Christie, Agatha 137–8
church interval 142
Churchill, Winston 80, 156, 192, 222–3, 231
Circle Line 48, 52, 66–7
Baker Street 37
colour 66–7
cut-and-cover 28
direction of travel 67
and District Line 61
Edgware Road 68–9
and Hammersmith & City Line 49
Leinster Gardens 59
on map 200
Paddington 37
train frequency 67–8
urban myths 67
see also Inner Circle
Citizen Ken (Carvel) 241
City & South London Railway 98–108, 148, 157–8, 159, 175
centenary 271
crest 3
and Hampstead Tube 177–81
Moorgate 3, 122
trains 147
tunnelling 131
see also Northern Line
City of London 11, 12, 13, 16, 21, 106, 166
Big Tube 121
Central Line 116
Metropolitan Railway 26–7, 35
Morgan Tube 133
New Road 17–18
Pearson’s plan 25–6
City of London & Southwark Subway 98–9
City Thameslink 57
City Widened Lines 51–7, 121
Clapham 99
Clapham Common 81, 105, 179, 230
Clapham North 105, 230
Clapham South 230
classes 38, 45–7, 101, 123
Clouded Yellow, The 153
Cockfosters 182, 279
Colindale 178, 179
Coming Race, The (Bulwer-Lytton) 97
Coming Up for Air (Orwell) 170
Commercial Railway 13
Conan Doyle, Arthur 63
Congestion Charge 252
Connor, J. E. 263
Conspirator 153
Cooper, Austin xiii
Corporation of London 10, 13, 22, 25, 27, 110, 113
Covent Garden xiii, 165, 261
Cowan, Paul 196–7
Cranley Gardens 206
Creep 137, 249
Cromwell Curve 62–3
Croome, Desmond F. 123, 127, 147, 261
Cross, Mr 257–8
Crossrail 17, 255, 274–5
Crouch End 205, 206
culex molestus 228
Cunningham, Granville C. 97, 119
Curwen, Harold 161
cut-and-cover lines v, 6, 28
air-raid shelters 228–9
District Line 79
electrification 134
glass roofs 31, 33
on map 204
Metropolitan Railway 28, 75
pigeons 259–60
trains 33, 45
tunnels 35–6
Cutler, Horace 241
D
Daily Express 149
Daily Mail 41, 101, 118
Davies, Philip 22
Day, Robin 197
Day (Epstein) 188–9
de Vries, Jean 202–3
dead man’s handle 103–4
Death Line xiv, 153
deep-level lines see Tubes
Delaney, Frank 172–3
Demuth, Tim 198
Deptford Power Station 84
Design and Industries Association 160, 161, 186
Designed for London (Green) 187
Development (Loan Guarantees and Grants) Act 1929 182
Diary of a Nobody, The (Grossmith) 167
Dickens, Charles 13–14, 15, 22
Dickens, Monica 242
disability discrimination legislation 213, 216
Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century (Routledge) 36
‘District Dave’s London Underground Site’ 45
District Line v, 8–9, 28, 59–62, 134, 158
bomb 69
Brunel tunnel 90
and Circle Line 68
colour 199, 200
and Crossrail 275
and East London Railway 91
Edgware Road 68
electrification 126, 135
expansion 71, 79–81, 179
Gladstone’s funeral train 33
Hammersmith 50
Heathrow 184
hustlers 214
Inner Circle 64–6, 91
Leinster Gardens 59
on maps 66
and Metropolitan Railway 57
moquette 6, 270
Paddington 37
passenger numbers 64, 84
and Piccadilly Line 182
roundel 159
Southend 198
trains 210, 212
Westminster 261
“District Line, The” (Milburn) 59
District Railway see Metropolitan District Railway
Dobson, Frank 252
Docklands 249
Docklands Light Railway (DLR) 92, 250, 277, 279
Doddinghurst 209–10
Dollis Brook Viaduct 205
Dollis Hill xii, 247
Dombey and Son (Dickens) 13–14, 15
Doré, Gustave 52, 54
Dover Street 231
see also Green Park
Down Street 183, 231–2
Drain, The see Waterloo & City Line
Drayton Park 121, 122, 124, 125
Dreiser, Theodore 141
drinking 73
bars 39, 40
drunks 258
drivers
communications 216, 217
Victoria Line 235–6
E
Ealing Broadway 66, 71, 80, 120, 207
Earl’s Court xiii, 60, 79, 217, 261
Early Tube Railways (Pennick) 131
East Finchley 179
East London Line 64, 90–4
East London Railway Company 90
East Putney 81
Eastenders 59
Edgware 69, 178, 206
Edgware Road (Bakerloo Line) 69, 143, 232
Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines) 68–70
Edgware Road (Metropolitan Railway) 18, 31
Eisenhower, General 230
Elborough, Travis 17–18, 157
Electric Lighting Act 1882 84
Electrical Multiple Units 112–13, 119, 147, 211
electricity 82–3
Betjeman 171–2
Central Line 118–19
Chelsea Monster 139–41
electrocution 137–9
signalling 136–7
electrification 86, 125, 134, 135–6
City & South London Railway 99–101, 103
East London Railway 91
Epping-Ongar line 209
LNER 205–6
Metropolitan Line 44, 56, 76, 126, 135, 141, 171, 233
Elephant & Castle 98, 99, 130, 143, 261
Eleven Minutes Late (Engel) 15
Elgin Marbles 152
Eliot, T. S. 108
Elizabeth II 235
Elliot, Sir John 244, 274
Ellis, C. Hamilton 104
Embankment
District Line 61
Northern Line xii, 133, 178–9, 220, 221
see also Charing Cross
Engel, Matthew 15
England’s Hour (Brittain) 232–3
English Heritage 92
Epping 76, 201, 209
Epping-Ongar shuttle 150, 208–10
Epstein, Jacob 188–9
escalators xiv–xv, 142, 217–19, 246, 261
Essex Road 122
Euston (railway station) 13, 23
Euston (Underground station)
Northern Line 108, 177, 220, 236–7
Victoria Line 236–7
Euston Road (station) see Warren
Street
Euston Road (street) 1–2, 17, 42
see also New Road
Euston Square 36
Evening Standard xv, 238
Extension Railway, The 51, 52
F
Fairlop 208, 256
Fares Fair 243–4, 245
Farringdon
Crossrail 255
Fleet pipe 29, 30
Metropolitan Railway 1, 10, 22, 26, 34–5, 52
Farringdon Road 21
Feltz, Vanessa 177
Fenchurch Street 13
Fennell Report 246
Finchley Central 202, 203
Finchley Road 5, 51, 75, 173
Finsbury Park
Aldwych Shuttle 151–2
Big Tube 121, 122, 123–4, 125
Great Northern 182
Great Northern & Strand Railway 122, 130, 150
LNER line 205, 206
Piccadilly Line 5, 122, 123–4, 144
Victoria Line 5, 123–4, 234
fire 246
First Capital Connect 125, 183
First World War 152, 224
Fitzroy, Caroline 83
fleas 228
Fleet River 29–31
Fleet Valley 21, 27
Forbes, James Staats 56, 62, 64
Ford, Ford Madox 135
four-rail electrification 103, 135–6
Fowler, John 31, 42
Fowler’s Ghost 42
Franch, John 126, 143
Freud, Bella 259
Frosterus, Sigurd 111
Fulham 80–1
Fulham Railway Bridge 81
G
Gallop, Alan 60
Gants Hill xii–xiii, 207–8
Garden City Movement 169, 176
gardens
Chesham 77
Edgware Road 69–70
Garfield, Simon 160
Garland, Ken 200, 201, 203
gas lights 37–8
gatemen 147, 210
gauge 33
Gawley, Marc 268
Gentle Gunman, The 153
ghost stations 263–4
ghosts 261, 263
Gibb, Sir George 148, 149–50, 156
Gibson Square 237
Gill, Eric 188
Gillespie Road see Arsenal
Ginger, Lee 204
Gissing, George 40
Gladstone, Mrs 31
Gladstone, William 31, 33, 34
Glasgow 2
Gloucester Road 57, 62
gnomes 69–70
Golders Green 133, 144, 148, 175–7, 178, 179
Gooch, Sir Daniel 42
Goodge Street 147, 230
Gower Street 36
see also Euston Square
Grand Central Hotel 75, 78
Graves, Charles 226
Great Central Railway 75
Great Eastern Railway 13, 47, 90, 256
Great Northern & City Railway 105, 120–5, 130, 158, 159, 182, 191, 206
Great Northern & Strand Railway 122, 130, 133, 150
Great Northern Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP & B) 130, 150–1
see also Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway; Piccadilly Line
Great Northern Railway 25, 42, 75, 158
Big Tube 121–2, 123, 130
Edgware 178
Finsbury Park 121, 122, 150, 182
and Metropolitan Railway 26, 52, 56
Great Portland Street 36
Great Western Railway 14, 26, 33, 42, 43, 49, 207
Greater London Authority 251–2
Greater London Council (GLC) 166, 241, 242, 243–4
abolition 245
creation 239
Jubilee Line 240
see also London County Council
Greathead, James Henry 95, 98, 100, 115, 116, 121, 141
tunnelling shield 95, 99, 115
Green, Hughie 172
Green, Leslie 6, 145–7
Green, Oliver 187, 208
Green Belt 8, 149, 206, 209, 221–2
Green Belt (London and Home Counties) Act 1938 222
Green Park 231, 247
Grigsby, Emilie Busbey 128
Grossmith, George and Weedon 167
Grosvenor Gallery Power Station 83, 84
guards xiv, 210–11
Gunnersbury 80
H
Hackney 274
hackney carriages 18
Hainault 208
Hale, George Ellery 142
Halliday, Stephen 132, 142, 156, 169, 224, 261
Hammersmith 50
Circle Line 68
District Line 79
Piccadilly Line 133, 144, 182
Hammersmith & City Line 28, 49–50, 79
Baker Street 37
and Circle Line 68
Edgware Road 68
Paddington 37
Wood Lane and White City 119, 120
Hammersmith & City Railway 49
Hampstead 148, 178
Hampstead Garden Suburb 176, 177
Hampstead Heath 129, 133, 176
Hampstead Road 264–5
Hampstead Tube see Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway
Hancock, Tony 257
Hardy, Brian 220
Hardy, Thomas 55
Harris, Bumper 217, 261
Harrods 82, 83
Harrow 72
Harrow & Wealdstone 168
Hassall, John 161–2
Hay, William Delisle 97
Heap, D. 11
Heart of London, The (Dickens) 242
Heathrow 184, 274
Hendon 179
Henry VIII Hotel 58
Hertford 183
Hibbert, Christopher 82
High Barnet 9, 205, 206
High Holborn 114
‘High Road’ (Betjeman) 174
High Street Kensington 57, 62
High Wages (Whipple) 1, 2
Highbury 235
Highbury & Islington 120, 122
Highgate xii, 144, 147, 148, 205, 206
see also Archway
History of London Transport, A (Barker and Robbins) 20–1, 85, 101, 127, 128, 132
Holborn 150, 151, 152, 263
Holborn Viaduct 21, 55, 56
Holden, Charles 184, 186, 247, 255
55 Broadway 188–9
Arnos Grove 183, 184
Central Line stations 207
Northern Line stations 179, 186–7
Piccadilly Circus 187–8
Piccadilly Line stations 189–90
Hole in the Wall, The 39
Holland Park 116
Holloway Road 130
Holmes, Sherlock 38, 63, 75, 247
Hopkins, Anthony 259
Hornbys 33
Horne, M. A. C. 236, 237–8
Hounslow 182
Hounslow Barracks 80
Household, Geoffrey 152
How To Live on 24 Hours A Day (Bennett) 280
Hulse, Robert 87, 88, 89, 90
Huntley, John 138
hustlers 214
Hutchinson, Harold F. 201–2
Hyde Park 267
Hyde Park Corner 137–8, 231, 261
I
If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It (Livingstone) 243
Illustrated London News 34–5
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue 265
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Wilson) 54
In the Year of Jubilee (Gissing) 40
Independent, The 67
infracos 253
Inner Circle 52, 63, 64–7, 84, 91, 135
see also Circle Line
Inquiries Concerning Female Labour in the Metropolis 39
Islington 22, 27
It’s a Bank Holiday, Go Out 162
J
Jackson, Alan A. 2, 36, 123, 127, 147, 261
Jackson, Lee 39
James, Henry 128
Jenkins, Simon 16
Johnson, Boris 73, 242, 274
Johnston, Edward 160
Johnston Sans 93, 160, 161
Joseph, Stephen 15–16, 242, 243, 244
Jubilee Line 174, 240, 247, 249, 251
Baker Street 38
and Crossrail 275
Extension 6, 60–1, 93, 240, 247, 249–51, 268
name 30
platform edge doors 277, 279
seats 270
trains 137
Just My Type (Garfield) 160
K
Kauffer, Edward McKnight 161
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Orwell) 17, 40–1, 215–16
Keeps London Going 143
Kennington 99, 102, 178, 274
Kensington 133
Kensington High Street 68
Kensington (Olympia) 79, 269
Kentish Town xvi, 133, 220, 264
Kentish Town Road 263–4
Kew Gardens 80
Kew Railway Bridge 80
Key Asset Plan (KAP) 219
Khrushchev, Nikita 66, 207
Kiley, Robert 252, 253
King Solomon’s Carpet (Vine) 66, 181
King William Street 98, 99, 100, 104, 105, 108
King’s Cross (railway station) 25
King’s Cross St Pancras 255
Big Tube 122
Circle Line 66, 67
escalators 217
fire 246
Metropolitan Railway 26, 29, 36, 38, 40
Victoria Line 234, 236
Kingsbury 247
Kingsway 22, 150, 151
KingVic 234
see also Victoria Line
Knight, Ted 243
Knightsbridge 187, 267
L
Ladykillers, The 29
Lambeth Suspension Bridge 95
Landlords to London (Jenkins) 16
Landmark London 78
Last Judgement, The (Martin) 15
Leboff, David 37, 79, 198, 208
Leicester Square xii, 165, 187, 220
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