Talk:History of the London Underground

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Reading the beginning of this article, I am struck by the difference of emphasis between it and an article I have in the January 1963 edition of the Railway Magazine. There it clearly states that the original scheme for the MetR came about gradually, beginning with the building of Farringdon Street between 1830-1838, which is in the River Fleet valley, a most squalid area at the time. With it came proposals to put in a covered railway to function as means of getting railways from the north into close contact with the City of London. After the Great Exhibition 1851 a revised scheme was put forward, as I show in my rewrite of the start of the article. The GWR got interested - so the extension to Paddington came about. Nothing about other termini or buses though... I shall hope to complete a rewrite over the next few days Peter Shearan 18:48, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have now completed the rewrite, incorporating new and revised info. Much of the information I have gleaned from two articles in the Jan/Feb 1963 Railway Magazine and from the 1912 Railway Year Book. Not all of the articles on individual railways - and I think it is a mistake to call them Piccadilly Line etc when discussing them in a historical sense! - contain full historical details as yet, I notice. My own article on the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways is fairly comprehensive, so I didn't see any necessity in trying to copy it here Peter Shearan 16:02, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)