The Subterranean Railway

by Christian Wolmar

  council housing, ref1

  tramways, ref1

  London General Omnibus Company, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  London, Midland & Scottish Railway, ref1

  London Overground, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  London Passenger Transport Board, see London Transport

  London Regional Transport, ref1

  London Stock Exchange, ref1

  London Transport

  board members, ref1

  finances, ref1, ref2, ref3

  formation, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  GLC control, ref1

  headquarters, ref1

  loss of independence, ref1, ref2

  New Works Programme, ref1, ref2

  publicity and design, ref1

  and racial integration, ref1

  reputation and ethos, ref1, ref2

  staff and conditions, ref1

  and suburban railways, ref1, ref2

  London Transport museum, ref1, ref2

  London Underground

  budget process, ref1, ref2

  Johnston typeface, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  map, ref1, ref2, ref3

  posters, ref1, ref2, ref3

  public private partnership (PPP), ref1

  publicity and design, ref1, ref2

  renewed investment, ref1

  roundel logo, ref1, ref2, ref3

  tickets, ref1, ref2

  Underground signs, ref1

  underinvestment and overcrowding, ref1

  wartime operation, ref1

  London United Tramways, ref1

  Lord’s Cricket Ground, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lots Road, ref1

  Louderback, DeLancey, ref1

  Lucas, Charles, ref1

  Ludgate Hill, ref1, ref2

  Lyttleton, Alfred, ref1, ref2

  MacDonald, Ramsay, ref1

  McEwan, Ian, ref1

  McIntosh, Andrew, ref1

  Maida Vale, ref1

  Maidenhead, ref1

  Maidstone, ref1

  Manchester, ref1, ref2

  Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, ref1, ref2

  Manor House, ref1

  Mansion House, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  Marble Arch, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Margate, ref1, ref2

  Markes, Francis, ref1

  Marlborough Road, ref1

  Marylebone, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Marylebone, Great Central Hotel, ref1

  Mayhew, Henry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Mersey Railway, ref1

  messengers, ref1

  Metroland, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Metroland booklets, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Metronet, ref1

  Metropolitan Board of Works, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Metropolitan District Railway, see District Line

  Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion Company, ref1

  Metropolitan Line, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  advertisements, ref1, ref2

  church interval, ref1, ref2

  Circle Line and merger, ref1

  City widened lines, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  competition with Central Line, ref1, ref2, ref3

  construction, ref1

  electrification, ref1

  expansion, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  fares, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  finances, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  freight services, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  gas lighting, ref1

  Great Northern & City takeover, ref1, ref2

  improvements, ref1, ref2

  interchanges, ref1, ref2, ref3

  and leisure travel, ref1, ref2

  locomotives, ref1, ref2

  logo, ref1

  and London Transport, ref1

  and Metroland, ref1, ref2, ref3

  open-air sections, ref1

  opening, ref1, ref2, ref3

  outside UERL control, ref1, ref2

  passenger numbers, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Pullman service, ref1, ref2

  refreshment bars, ref1

  safety and accidents, ref1, ref2, ref3

  signalling, ref1

  and smoking, ref1

  Stanmore branch, ref1

  stations, ref1, ref2

  terrorist attacks, ref1

  travelling conditions, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  trial runs, ref1

  and underground railway concept, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Watford branch, ref1

  working hours, ref1

  workmen’s trains, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  see also Hammersmith & City Line

  ‘Metropolitan Mixture’, ref1

  Metropolitan Railway, see Metropolitan Line

  Metropolitan Railway Country Estates, ref1, ref2

  mice, ref1

  Midland Railway, ref1

  Mill, John Stuart, ref1

  Mill Hill East, ref1, ref2

  Mill Hill Park, ref1

  Millennium Dome, ref1, ref2

  Mills, Darius Ogden, ref1

  Mitcham, ref1

  Montague Smith, H.H., ref1, ref2

  Moor Park, ref1

  Moore-Brabazon, John, ref1

  Moorfields chapel, ref1

  Moorgate, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  disaster, ref1

  Moorgate Street, ref1, ref2

  Morden, ref1

  Morgan, John Pierpont, ref1

  Morning Advertiser, ref1

  Morris, William, ref1

  Morrison, Herbert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Moscow Metro, ref1, ref2

  mosquitoes, ref1

  motor cars, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Motor Traction Company, ref1

  Moxon, John, ref1

  Munich Agreement, ref1

  Muswell Hill, ref1, ref2

  Napoleon III, Emperor, ref1

  National Gallery, ref1

  National Portrait Gallery, ref1

  navvies, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Neasden, ref1, ref2, ref3

  New Cross, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  New Cross Gate, ref1

  New Jersey, ref1

  New York, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  New York Rapid Transit Commission, ref1

  Newington Causeway, ref1

  Nock, O.S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Nokes, G.A., ref1, ref2, ref3

  North Eastern Railway, ref1, ref2

  North Kensington, ref1

  North London, Hammersmith & City Railway, ref1

  North London Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Northampton, ref1

  Northern Line, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  and Automatic Train Operation, ref1

  Bank branch, ref1, ref2

  Charing Cross branch, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  extensions, ref1, ref2

  flood barriers, ref1

  Moorgate disaster, ref1

  upgrade scheme, ref1

  and wartime, ref1, ref2

  see also Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway; City & South London Railway; Great Northern & City Railway

  Northfields, ref1

  Northwood, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Northwood Hills, ref1

  Notting Hill, ref1

  Notting Hill Gate, ref1

  Oakwood, ref1

  Old Colony Trust, ref1

  Old Street, ref1

  Olympia, ref1, ref2

  Olympia & York, ref1

  Olympic Games, ref1, ref2

  omnibuses, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  see also buses (motor)

  Ongar, ref1

  Oppenheim, Henry, ref1

  Osglim lighting, ref1

  Osterley, ref1
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br />   Otis lifts, ref1

  outer circle scheme, ref1, ref2

  Oxford Circus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Oxford Music Hall, ref1

  Oxford Street, ref1, ref2

  Oyster Cards, ref1

  Paddington, ref1, ref2, ref3

  and Bakerloo extension, ref1

  and Crossrail, ref1, ref2, ref3

  and electrification, ref1

  and Metropolitan Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

  slum housing, ref1

  terrorist attacks, ref1

  see also Bishop’s Road

  Palmers Green, ref1

  Palmerston, Lord, ref1, ref2

  Pardoe, J.W., ref1

  Paris, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  RER, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Paris Métro, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  fire, ref1, ref2

  Parson, John, ref1

  passimeters, ref1

  Passing Brompton Road, ref1

  Paxton, Sir Joseph, ref1

  Pearson, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  his death, ref1, ref2

  idealism, ref1, ref2

  and Metropolitan Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  and underground railway concept, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Pearson, Mary, ref1, ref2

  Pearson, Thomas, ref1

  Pearson, Sir Weetman, ref1

  Perks, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Peterborough, ref1

  Pevsner, Nikolaus, ref1

  Philadelphia, ref1

  Piccadilly Circus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  station architecture, ref1

  Piccadilly Line

  Aldwych branch, ref1

  alternate trains, ref1

  equipment purchases, ref1

  extensions, ref1, ref2, ref3

  fares, ref1

  finances, ref1

  formation, ref1

  improvements, ref1

  interchanges, ref1, ref2

  and King’s Cross fire, ref1

  and LT control, ref1

  passenger numbers, ref1

  precursor schemes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  stations, ref1, ref2, ref3

  terrorist attacks, ref1

  ticketing, ref1, ref2

  and wartime, ref1

  Pick, Frank, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  flair for publicity and design, ref1

  and London Transport, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  partnership with Ashfield, ref1

  and wartime, ref1

  Pinks, William, ref1

  Pinner, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Plessey aircraft factory, ref1

  Plummer, Desmond, ref1

  Porter, Roy, ref1, ref2

  porters, ref1

  Portland Road, ref1, ref2, ref3

  post office railway, ref1

  Powell, Albert, ref1

  Powell, Thomas, ref1

  power generation, ref1

  Praed Street, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Prescott, John, ref1, ref2

  Price Waterhouse Cooper, ref1

  Prince of Wales, see Edward VII, King

  Princess Alice disaster, ref1

  profit-sharing notes, ref1, ref2

  Public Record Office, ref1

  publicans, ref1

  Punch, ref1, ref2

  Putney, ref1, ref2

  Putney Bridge, ref1

  Queen’s Park, ref1

  Queensbury, ref1

  Railway and Travel Monthly, ref1

  Railway Engineer, ref1

  Railway Executive, ref1

  Railway Gazette, ref1, ref2

  Railway Magazine, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Railway News, ref1

  Railway Times, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  railways

  business model, ref1, ref2

  and capitalism, ref1

  commissions and inquiries, ref1

  development of, ref1, ref2

  and First World War, ref1

  investment, ref1

  land holdings, ref1

  legislation, ref1, ref2

  mania of 1840s, ref1

  privatization, ref1, ref2

  and profit motive, ref1

  and smoking, ref1

  suburban, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  and suburban expansion, ref1

  underinvestment, ref1

  rats, ref1

  Rayners Lane, ref1, ref2

  Reeves, Thomas, ref1

  refreshment trains, ref1

  Regent’s Park, ref1, ref2

  Reid, E.S., ref1

  Richmond, ref1, ref2

  Rickmansworth, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  road improvements, ref1

  Roehampton, ref1

  Ruislip, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Ruislip Manor, ref1

  Ruislip Manor Ltd, ref1

  Russell Square, ref1

  St James’s Park, ref1, ref2

  St John’s Wood, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  St Pancras, ref1, ref2

  St Paul’s Cathedral, ref1, ref2

  Sandy Lodge, ref1

  Scotland, ref1

  Scotland Yard, ref1, ref2

  Selbie, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Selfridges, ref1

  Sellon, Stephen, ref1

  Sevenoaks, ref1

  ‘sewer-rats’, ref1

  Shakespeare, William, ref1

  Shaw, Norman, ref1

  Shenfield, ref1

  Shepherd’s Bush, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Sheridan, H. B., ref1

  Shillibeer, George, ref1

  Shoreditch, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Siemens, Sir William (Wilhelm), ref1

  signalling, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Sloane Square, ref1, ref2

  Smithfield, ref1, ref2, ref3

  smoking, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Snow Hill, ref1, ref2

  songs, ref1

  South Acton, ref1

  South Eastern Railway, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  South Harrow, ref1, ref2, ref3

  South Kensington, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12

  South Kentish Town, ref1

  South London Press, ref1

  South Sea Bubble, ref1

  Southend, ref1

  Southern Railway, ref1

  Southgate, ref1, ref2

  Southwark, ref1

  Speyer, Sir Edgar, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Spiers and Pond, ref1

  spivs, ref1

  Stalin, Josef, ref1

  Stamford Hill, ref1

  Stanley, Albert, see Ashfield, Lord

  Stanmore, ref1, ref2

  Star, ref1

  station staff, ref1

  stations

  architecture, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  cast-iron construction, ref1

  distance between, ref1

  on inclines, ref1

  lighting, ref1

  upgrades, ref1

  steamboats, ref1

  Stephenson, George, ref1

  Stephenson, Robert, ref1

  Stockwell, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Stoke Mandeville, ref1

  Strand, The, ref1

  straphanging, ref1

  Stratford, ref1, ref2

  strip tickets, ref1, ref2

  Submarine Railway Company, ref1

  Sunday Dispatch, ref1

  Sutherland, Graham, ref1

  Sutton, ref1, ref2

  Swiss Cottage, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Tate Gallery, ref1

  Tavistock Square, ref1

  Temple, ref1, ref2

  Tennant, Henry, ref1

  terrorist attacks, ref1, ref2

  Thames Embankment, re
f1, ref2

  Thames Tunnel, ref1, ref2

  Thameslink, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Thatcher, Margaret, ref1

  theatres, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Thomas, J.P., ref1

  Thrush, Ernest, ref1

  Times, The, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  and Central London Railway, ref1, ref2

  and City & South London Railway, ref1

  and electrification, ref1

  and Metropolitan and District construction, ref1

  and strip tickets, ref1

  Tooting, ref1

  Tottenham, ref1, ref2

  Tottenham Court Road, ref1, ref2

  Tower Bridge, ref1

  Tower Hill, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Tower of London, ref1, ref2

  Tower Subway, ref1

  track gauge, ref1

  Trafalgar Square, ref1, ref2

  train stop system, ref1, ref2

  trams, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  and network integration, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  tramways

  American, ref1

  LCC, ref1

  Transport & General Workers Union, ref1

  Transport for London, ref1, ref2

  Travelcards, ref1, ref2

  Trav-o-lators, ref1, ref2

  Tring, ref1

  Trinity Square, ref1

  Tube Lines, ref1

  tunnel collapses, ref1, ref2

  tunnels

  cut and cover method, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  deepest on network, ref1

  East London line, ref1

  shield method, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Tunnicliffe, Denis, ref1, ref2

  Turnham Green, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Twain, Mark, ref1

  Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  attention to detail, ref1

  improvements, ref1

  and London & North Western, ref1

  and network integration, ref1, ref2

  and wartime, ref1

  Underground Group of

  Companies, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  unemployment, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  United States Steel Corporation, ref1

  university boat race, ref1

  Upminster, ref1, ref2

  Uxbridge, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Uxendon Hill, ref1

  Verney Junction, ref1

  Victoria, Queen, ref1

  Victoria, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Victoria & Albert Museum, ref1

  Victoria Line, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Vienna, ref1

  Walthamstow, ref1, ref2

  Wanstead, ref1, ref2

  Wapping, ref1

  Waterloo, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Waterloo & City Line, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Watford, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Watford Junction, ref1

  Watford Observer, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Watkin, Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Channel Tunnel scheme, ref1

  expansion plans, ref1, ref2