24 May 1862:
Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Ewart Gladstone, and directors and engineers of the Metropolitan Railway Company, embark on an inspection tour of the world's first underground line. Built between Paddington and the City of London, it opened in January of the following year. Gladstone is seen in the front row, near right.
1863:
A contemporary lithograph of a steam locomotive on the Metropolitan line near Paddington Station
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An early Underground train is seen on the Central London Railway, opened in 1900, which eventually became the Central Line. This engine could be driven in both directions.
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Workmen break through a concrete wall during construction of the Central Line extension to Bank, circa 1912
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1926:
An underground train is transported on wheels through the streets of London
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1930:
London Underground workers building the Piccadilly Line extension are seen at Turnpike Lane
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A London Underground workers' canteen, circa 1935
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1939:
Evacuees at a London Underground station begin the journey to their new homes
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8 March 1939:
Some of the four million tickets collected from London Underground passengers are examined in a survey by London Transport to discover the most and least used routes to help future infrastructure development
Picture: Gerry Cranham/Fox Photos/Getty Images
1940:
People bed down for the night in an air raid shelter on a platform at Piccadilly Circus
Picture: Rex Features
1940:
Members of the public are entertained by an ENSA concert party in Aldwych Underground Station
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1940:
An air raid warden checks on children sleeping on hammocks strung between the train tracks in a London Underground station during the Blitz
Picture: Rex Features
12 January 1941:
Soldiers help to clear the debris of Bank Underground Station, the morning after it received a direct hit during the Blitz. Some 111 people were killed in the bombing raid by German aircraft.
Picture: H F Davis/Getty Images
August 1943:
Women war workers enter and leave an underground aircraft parts factory, which occupies an incompleted section of the London Underground network 60 feet below street level
Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
1945:
Soldiers return from Europe after D-Day, on a London Underground train
Picture: Keystone/Getty Images
1952:
Harry Weatheley, responsible for keeping the ventilator shafts clean, surfaces from a vent at Piccadilly Circus underground station
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12 August 1957:
Sir John Elliott, Chairman of the LTE, shakes hands with the driver of the new prototype 'silver' tube train at Northfields station on the Piccadilly Line
Picture: Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty ImagesDesign
Throughout the years that the underground has been in service there have been many changes with the design.
Poster available for passengers to buy. Celebrating 150 years of service.
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