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#OnThisDay 1916: Barnes Bridge station was opened by the London and South Western Railway.
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[Top photo - Dr Neil Clifton]

Hancock's Half Hour - The Missing Page (11th March 1960). A master at work.

Wyldes Farm, North End, Hampstead, captioned as 'Wildwood Farm' on an early 1900's colourised postcard....

Cover to the small format oblong booklet issued for the opening of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway on 10 March 1906 by Sir Edwin Cornwall MP Chairman of the London County Council. It is now known as the Bakerloo line.

Map of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway showing central London with the line in red. It also shows in blue the other lines of the UERL Group under construction - these are the Piccadilly line and the Charing Cross branch of the now Northern line. the 'Circle line' or the MDR is shown in light red and it too was part of the Yerkes UERL Group of railways. Other railways are shown in black,

Happy Birthday to the Bakerloo line - 120 years old today. The initial section of the tube line was formally opened on 10 March 1906 by the Chairman of the #London CC; the brochure has this fine map showing the line along with the other UERL tubes under construction.

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Kilburn High Road, Kilburn
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Dalston Lane, Dalston
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This is not just any tube train...This is a Siemens Mobility 2024 Stock tube train.

#OnThisDay 1966: Bath Green Park station was closed by British Rail.
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[Top photo - Ben Brooksbank]

#OnThisDay 1969: The Victoria line was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II, the same day that stage 3 of the line was opened between Warren Street and Victoria.
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Kilburn High Road, Kilburn
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Fleet Street Hill.
[left photo by John Claridge]
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#OnThisDay 1884: St Mary's station was opened by the South Eastern Railway.
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Kingston station, Wood Street, Kingston
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#OnThisDay 1941: London & North Eastern Railway trains served East Finchley station for the last time.
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[Top photo - Ben Brooksbank]

#OnThisDay 1871: West Hampstead Thameslink station was opened by the Midland Railway.
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#OnThisDay 1880: Fulham Broadway station was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway.
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#OnThisDay 1849: Enfield Town station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway.
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#OnThisDay 1888: West Hampstead station was opened by the London and North Western Railway.
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Corner of Parkway and Great West Road, Hounslow
In the top photo we see cut-and-cover construction work for the Heathrow extension of the Piccadilly line taking place.
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Horseferry Branch Road / Branch Road, Ratcliffe
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#OnThisDay 2011: Transport for London reopened the Dalston Western Curve, allowing passenger services to run between Canonbury and Dalston Junction stations for the first time in 25 years.
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#OnThisDay 1900: London Bridge station (deep-level) was opened by the City and South London Railway as part of its extension up to Bank and Moorgate.
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Congratulations! And thanks for the hard work it takes to create these amazing atlases.

#OnThisDay 1906: The Kingsway Subway was first opened to tram services.
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The Broadway / The Mall, Ealing
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Colmore Row, Birmingham
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I loved that job. Happy to have been one of the last Northern line guards, was always aware we were coming to the end of an era.

King Street, Hammersmith
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I think this is where Starbucks now stands.

#OnThisDay 1971: Decimal Day saw the first day of decimalisation of the British currency system.
British Rail employees received this booklet, published in August 1970, to help prepare them for the changes.
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