Read The Subterranean Railway Online
Authors: Christian Wolmar
Ruislip Manor,
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Ruislip Manor Ltd,
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Russell Square,
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St John’s Wood,
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Sandy Lodge,
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Scotland,
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Selbie, Robert,
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Selfridges,
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Sellon, Stephen,
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Sevenoaks,
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‘sewer-rats’,
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Shakespeare, William,
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Shaw, Norman,
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Shenfield,
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Shepherd’s Bush,
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Sheridan, H. B.,
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Shillibeer, George,
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Siemens, Sir William (Wilhelm),
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signalling,
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smoking,
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songs,
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South Acton,
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South Eastern Railway,
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South Kensington,
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South Kentish Town,
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South London Press
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South Sea Bubble,
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Southend,
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Southern Railway,
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Southwark,
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Speyer, Sir Edgar,
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Spiers and Pond,
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spivs,
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Stalin, Josef,
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Stamford Hill,
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Stanley, Albert,
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Ashfield, Lord
Star
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station staff,
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stations
architecture,
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cast-iron construction,
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distance between,
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on inclines,
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lighting,
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upgrades,
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steamboats,
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Stephenson, George,
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Stephenson, Robert,
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Stoke Mandeville,
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Strand, The,
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straphanging,
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Submarine Railway Company,
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Sunday Dispatch
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Sutherland, Graham,
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Swiss Cottage,
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Tate Gallery,
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Tavistock Square,
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Tennant, Henry,
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Thatcher, Margaret,
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theatres,
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Thomas, J.P.,
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Thrush, Ernest,
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Times, The
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and Central London Railway,
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and City & South London Railway,
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and electrification,
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and Metropolitan and District construction,
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and strip tickets,
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Tooting,
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Tottenham Court Road,
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Tower Bridge,
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Tower Subway,
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track gauge,
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trams,
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and network integration,
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tramways
American,
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LCC,
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Transport & General Workers Union,
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Transport for London,
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Tring,
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Trinity Square,
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Tube Lines,
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tunnels
cut and cover method,
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deepest on network,
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East London line,
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shield method,
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Twain, Mark,
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Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL),
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attention to detail,
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improvements,
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and London & North Western,
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and network integration,
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and wartime,
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Underground Group of
Companies,
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unemployment,
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United States Steel Corporation,
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university boat race,
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Uxendon Hill,
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Verney Junction,
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Victoria, Queen,
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Victoria,
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Victoria & Albert Museum,
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Victoria Line,
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Vienna,
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Wapping,
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Waterloo & City Line,
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Watford Junction,
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Watford Observer
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Channel Tunnel scheme,
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rivalry with Forbes,
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Watling Estate,
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Wealdstone,
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Webb, Sidney and Beatrice,
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weighing machines,
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Wells, H.G.,
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Wembley Park,
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Wendover,
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West Hampstead,
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West India Dock,
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West Indians,
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West London Advertiser
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West London Line,
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West London Railway,
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West London Line
West Ruislip,
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Westbourne, river,
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Westbourne Grove,
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Westminster,
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Westminster Central Hall,
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White City,
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White Star Line,
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Whiteleys,
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Willesden Green,
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Williams, Watkin,
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Willing, J.,
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Wire, David,
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Wolseley, Lieutenant General Sir Garnet,
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women staff,
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Wood Green,
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Woodcock Hill and Woodcock Dell Estates,
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workmen’s trains,
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Wright, Whitaker,
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Yerkes, Charles Tyson,
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in America,
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District Railway takeover,
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forward thinking,
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and J.P. Morgan,
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and profit-sharing notes,
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property speculation,
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and UERL,
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Yerkes Observatory,
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Zeppelins,
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Traffic chaos on the streets, print by Gustave Doré
The pneumatic railway at Crystal Palace (TfL)
‘Cut and cover’ at Parliament Square
Notting Hill Gate station (TfL)
A Circle line train approaches Aldgate (TfL)
Station advertising on the underground railways (TfL)
Inhospitable carriages on the first tube trains
Boat race day at Baker Street station
The Big Wheel at Earls Court (TfL)
Central London Railway locomotive (TfL)
Building a station using the Greathead shield (TfL)
A modern-day version of Harry Beck’s map of the Underground (TfL)
A 1905 poster advertising the ‘Twopenny Tube’ (TfL)
Down Street station, Mayfair (TfL)
A station assistant at Queens Park station (TfL)
Gatewoman at work during the First World War
Lord Ashfield and his daughter at the reopening of the City & South London Railway (TfL)
An Underground poster advertising season tickets (TfL)
The cover of the 1930
Metroland
booklet (TfL)
Display of animals killed by trains at Charing Cross station, 1929 (TfL)
A 1930 poster encouraging people to go to the cinema (TfL)
A 1925 redesign of the famous roundel (TfL)
Crowds at Colindale on their way to RAF Hendon (TfL)
A crowded escalator during the Blitz (Getty Images)
West Indian applicants for London Transport jobs (TfL)