A nearly century-old snapshot of the London Underground could be yours – that is, if you have £100,000 to spare. Christie's is set to auction off a rare 1932 draft of the Tube map created by Harry ...

The London Underground stretches past the confines of the capital to Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Berkshire, but it used to go even further - all the way to the coast. In the early 20th Century, London ...

London’s Tube is the oldest underground railway in the world, with the first trains travelling between Paddington and Farringdon in 1863. The Metropolitan line was the Underground’s first route to ...

Marlborough Road was one of the earliest stations on the Tube network but closed in 1939 and for many decades its ticket hall operated as ...

Just after 1 P.M. on January 9, 1863, a smaller-than-average steam train loaded with Victorian dignitaries and other men in tall hats left Paddington Station, in London, and headed east, beneath the ...

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