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Authors: Christian Wolmar
FURTHER READING
This is a list of books to which I have referred and which are likely to be of interest to the general reader. It is by no means comprehensive.
Anthony Badsey-Ellis, London’s Lost Tube Schemes, Capital, 2005.
Benjamin Baker,
The Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways
, Institution of Civil Engineers, 1885.
Felix Barker,
Edwardian London
, Laurence King, 1995.
T.C. Barker and Michael Robbins,
A History of London Transport
, Volumes 1 and 2, George Allen & Unwin, 1963 and 1974.
Christian Barman,
The Man who built London Transport
, David & Charles, 1979.
John Wolfe Barry,
The City lines and extensions (inner circle completion) of the Metropolitan and District railway
, Institution of Civil Engineers, 1885.
David Bennett, Metro, the story of the underground railway, Mitchell Beazley, 2004.
David Bowness, The Metropolitan Railway, Tempus, 2004.
Simon Bradley, St Pancras Station, Profile, 2007.
J. Graeme Bruce,
Tube Trains Under London
, London Transport, 1968.
J.E. Connor,
Abandoned stations on London’s Underground
, Connor & Butler, 2000.
J.E. Connor,
Stepney’s own railway, a history of the London & Blackwall system
, Connor & Butler, 1984.
Mark D’Arcy and Rory MacLean,
Nightmare, the race to become London’s Mayor
, Politico’s, 2000.
Terry Farrell, Shaping London, the patterns and forms that make the metropolis, Wiley, 2010.
John Franch, Robber Baron, the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes, University of Illinois, 2008.
R. Davies and M.D. Grant,
London and its railways
, Book Club Associates and David & Charles, 1983.
John R. Day and John Reed,
The story of London’s Underground
, Capital Transport, 2001.
Tim Demuth,
The Spread of London’s Underground
, Capital Transport, 2003.
Bernard Donoghue and G.W. Jones,
Herbert Morrison, Portrait of a Politician
, Phoenix Press, 2001.
Hugh Douglas,
The Underground Story
, Robert Hale, 1963.
Dennis Edwards and Ron Pigram,
London’s Underground Suburbs
, Baton Transport, 1986.
Dennis Edwards and Ron Pigram,
The Romance of Metroland
, Baton Transport, 1986.
Andrew Emmerson,
The Underground Pioneers
, Capital Transport, 2000.
Desmond Fennell,
Investigation into the King’s Cross Fire
, HMSO 1988, Cm 499.
Clive Foxell,
The story of the Met and GC joint line
, self-published, 2001.
Jonathan Glancey,
London, Bread and Circuses
, Verso, 2001.
John Glover,
London’s Underground, the world’s premier underground system
, Ian Allan, 1999 (ninth edition).
John Glover,
Principles of London Underground Operations
, Ian Allan, 2000.
John Gregg,
The Shelter of the Tubes
, Capital Transport, 2001.
Stephen Halliday,
Making the Metropolis, creators of Victoria’s London
, Breedon Books, 2003.
Stephen Halliday,
Underground to Everywhere
, Sutton Publishing, 2001.
H.F. Howson,
London’s Underground
, Ian Allan, 1962.
Steve Humphries and Gavin Weightman,
The making of modern London, 1815–1914
, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983.
Steve Humphries and Gavin Weightman,
The making of modern London, 1914–1939
, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984.
Steve Humphries and Joanna Mack,
The making of modern London, 1939–1945, London at war
, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985.
Mecca Ibrahim, One stop short of Barking, uncovering the London Underground, 2004, New Holland.
Alan A. Jackson,
London’s local railways
, Capital Transport, 1999.
Alan A. Jackson,
London’s Metropolitan Railway
, David & Charles, 1986.
Alan A. Jackson,
London’s termini
, David & Charles, 1985.
Alan A. Jackson,
Semi-detached London
, second edition 1991, Wild Swan Publications.
Alan A. Jackson and Desmond F. Croome,
Rails through Clay
, George Allen & Unwin, 1962.
John Kellett,
The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities
, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
Charles Klapper,
London’s lost railways
, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976.
Peter Laurie,
Beneath the City Streets
, Penguin, 1972.
Henry Mayhew,
The shops and companies of London and the trades and manufactories of Great Britain
, Strand Printing and Publishing, 1865.
O.S. Nock,
Underground Railways of the World
, A & C Black, 1973.
Mark Ovenden,
Metro Maps of the World
, Capital Transport, 2003.
Ben Pedroche, Do Not Alight Here, walking London’s lost Underground and railway stations. Capital, 2011.
Ben Pimlott and Nirmala Rao,
Governing London
, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Roy Porter,
A Social History of London
, Penguin, 1994.
Steen Eiler Rasmussen,
London, the Unique City
, MIT Press, 1934.
Sheila Taylor (ed.),
The Moving Metropolis, a history of London’s transport since 1800
, Laurence King, 2002.
Reg Thomas, London’s First Railway, The London & Greenwich, B.T Batsford, 1972.
Richard Trench and Ellis Hillman,
London under London, a subterranean guide
, John Murray, 1985.
H.P. White,
A regional history of the railways of Great Britain
, Vol. 3
Greater London
, David St John Thomas, 1987.
John Withington,
Capital Disasters
, Sutton Publishing, 2003.
Christian Wolmar,
Down the Tube
, Aurum Press, 2002.
Peter Zimonjic, Into the Darkness, an account of 7/7, Vintage, 2008.
The line history pamphlets produced by Capital Transport and written by various authors are very useful. They now cover all the Underground lines and earlier versions for most were produced in the 1970s by London Transport.
Underground News
is a monthly newsletter produced by the London Underground Railway Society with a wealth of information about the system.
INDEX
accidents and disasters
boiler explosions,
ref1
Charing Cross station collapse,
ref1
King’s Cross fire,
ref1
Moorgate disaster,
ref1
tunnel collapses,
ref1
Acton Works,
ref1
air temperature, in tunnels,
ref1
Albert Hall,
ref1
Aldersgate Street,
ref1
Aldgate,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
Aldwych,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Alexandra, Princess,
ref1
all-night services,
ref1
Antwerp,
ref1
Archway,
ref1
Army and Navy Stores,
ref1
Arnos Grove,
ref1
Arts and Crafts Movement,
ref1
Ashfield, Lord (Albert Stanley),
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
and London Transport,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
and network integration,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
partnership with Pick,
ref1
atmospheric railways,
ref1
,
ref2
Austro-Hungarian empire,
ref1
Automatic Train Operation,
ref1
Baker Street,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
and Bakerloo Line,
ref1
Chiltern Court development,
ref1
,
ref2
and Jubilee Line,
ref1
and Metropolitan Railway,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
and Underground history,
ref1
Baker Street & Waterloo Railway,
see
Bakerloo Line
Bakerloo Line,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
fares,
ref1
passenger numbers,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
Bank of England,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Banstead,
ref1
Barbados,
ref1
Barcelona,
ref1
Barlow, Peter,
ref1
Barlow Commission,
ref1
Barn Hill,
ref1
Barnett, Dame Henrietta,
ref1
Battersea,
ref1
Bayswater,
ref1
Beck, Harry,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
Beckton,
ref1
Becontree,
ref1
bedbugs,
ref1
Bedford Park,
ref1
Bedford Park Estate,
ref1
Bell, Col. John,
ref1
Belsize Park,
ref1
Bennett, Arnold,
ref1
Bermondsey,
ref1
Bevin, Ernest,
ref1
Beyer, Peacock locomotives,
ref1
,
ref2
Big Wheel,
ref1
Birkenhead,
ref1
Birmingham, Bristol & Thames Junction Railway,
ref1
Birmingham New Exchange,
ref1
Blackfriars Bridge,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
Blake, Charles,
ref1
Blumenfeld, R.D.,
ref1
Blumenthal, J.D.,
ref1
Boer War,
ref1
boiler explosions,
ref1
Bonar Law, Andrew,
ref1
booking clerks,
ref1
Borough,
ref1
Bounds Green,
ref1
Bramwell, Frederick,
ref1
Brandon-Thomas, Jevan,
ref1
Brent,
ref1
Brent Valley viaduct,
ref1
British Empire Exhibition,
ref1
British Freehold Land Company,
ref1
British Transport Commission (BTC),
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway,
ref1
,
ref2
see also
Piccadilly Line
Brompton Road,
ref1
Brunel, Isambard and Marc,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
Buckingham Palace,
ref1
Budapest,
ref1
building societies,
ref1
Burnt Oak,
ref1
bus conductors,
ref1
bus stops,
ref1
buses (motor),
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
,
ref9
and London Regional Transport,
ref1
and London Transport,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
and network integration,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
pirate operators,
ref1
see also
omnibuses
Bushey,
ref1
Bushey Heath,
ref1
Byers, Stephen,
ref1
cable railways,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
‘call boys’,
ref1
Camden Town,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
Campden Hill,
ref1
Canada Water,
ref1
Canary Wharf,
ref1
Canons Park,
ref1
Carr, Jonathan,
ref1
Cassel, Ernest,
ref1
Catford,
ref1
Cave, Sir George,
ref1
Cecil Park,
ref1
Central Line
competition with Metropolitan Line,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
construction and opening,
ref1
,
ref2
extensions,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
fares,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
finances,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
gradients,
ref1
hand signals,
ref1
improvements,
ref1
interchanges,
ref1
parcels service,
ref1
passenger numbers,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
safety,
ref1
travelling conditions,
ref1
,
ref2
Twopenny Tube nickname,
ref1
working hours,
ref1
workmen’s trains,
ref1
Central London Railway,
see
Central Line
Chamberlain, Neville,
ref1
Chancery Lane,
ref1
Chaplin, Charlie,
ref1
Chapman, James,
ref1
Charing Cross,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
flood barriers,
ref1
and Jubilee Line,
ref1
station collapse,
ref1
terrorist attacks,
ref1
Charing Cross & Waterloo Electric Railway,
ref1
Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway
alternate trains,
ref1
construction and opening,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
,
ref8
express trains,
ref1
integration into Northern Line,
ref1
interchanges,
ref1
passenger numbers,
ref1
see also
Northern Line
Cheam,
ref1
Chesham,
ref1
Chingford,
ref1
Chiswick Park,
ref1
choke damp,
ref1
Chorley Estate,
ref1
Churchill, Winston,
ref1
Circle Line,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
completion,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
,
ref6
,
ref7
costs per mile,
ref1
electrification,
ref1
open-air sections,
ref1
opening,
ref1
passenger numbers,
ref1
siding dispute,
ref1
terrorist attacks,
ref1
travelling conditions,
ref1
,
ref2
circuses,
ref1
City & South London Railway
compared with Central,
ref1
construction,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
,
ref4
,
ref5
integration into Northern Line,
ref1
,
ref2
,
ref3
passenger numbers,
ref1