Now a single Tube route, the Northern line’s origins lie in two separate early underground railways. The first to be built was the City & South London Railway, which was also the first electric Tube ...

District Railway map 1890 (Image: TfL Corporate Archives ... although it took another 96 years for it to be incorporated into the London Underground network. At the turn of the century, the ...

The London Underground is an iconic piece of Victorian era engineering. What started in 1863 quickly became a core piece of infrastructure that would define the modern character of the British ...