"area, published by National Rail and Transport for London, includes suburban railway services. The tube map came second in a BBC and London Transport Museum poll asking for a favourite UK design icon of the 20th century and the underground's 150th anniversary was celebrated by a Google Doodle on the search engine. While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the trademark of the London General Omnibus Company registered in 1905, it was first used on the Underground in 1908 when the UERL placed a solid red circle behind station nameboards on platforms to highlight"
"125"" celebrations. While there it was paired with four original Metropolitan Railway carriages which have been restored by the Bluebell. During August 2008 it visited Barrow Hill and in October 2008 Llangollen, to participate in their heritage events. In 2010 an appeal was launched to fund the restoration of Number 1, and to fund its continued upkeep for the following ten years to enable it to participate at many more heritage events In 2013, for the 150th Anniversary of London Underground, No. 1 was loaned to the LT museum for several trips between Olympia and Moorgate via Edgware Road on"
"furthest London Underground station from central London. It is both the northernmost and westernmost London Underground Station. On 16 and 17 August 2014 the branch line celebrated its 125th anniversary of operating. It was celebrated using London Underground's first steam locomotive, Metropolitan 1. It ran from to Chesham (with the first and last service of each day starting or ending at to allow stabling of the set at Ruislip), meaning that the line from Chalfont and Latimer to Chesham had to be closed for a period of time to allow for the special service. The station was opened on 8"
"150th anniversary of the opening of the Metropolitan, special services ran in January 2013 using a restored 1892 ""Jubilee"" carriage, 1898–1900 Ashbury and Cravens bogie carriages, Metropolitan Railway milk van No.3, Metropolitan Railway E Class steam locomotive No. 1 and electric locomotive ""Sarah Siddons"". Further events are planned in 2013 for Locomotive No. 1, ""Sarah Siddons"" and the Jubilee carriage, including a ""Steam back on the Met"" scheduled for May. With the introduction of S Stock, the track, electrical supply and signalling systems are being upgraded in a programme planned to increase peak-hour capacity on the line by 27 per"
"successive weekends in January of that year to honour the actual anniversary of the first Underground journey from Paddington (Bishop's Road) to Farringdon on 9 January 1863. The train was made up of Metropolitan Locomotive Number 1, Metropolitan Railway Milk Van number 4 and the Metropolitan Railway Jubilee Carriage 353 (the oldest surviving operational tube carriage dating from 1892), both the property of the London Transport Museum Heritage Fleet. Coupled to these were the set of four 'Ashbury' Coaches of 1898 (ex Chesham Shuttle coaches 387, 412, 394 and 368, on loan from the Bluebell Railway) and Metropolitan Electric Railway"
"July 2013 and one in February 2014. London Underground—also known as the Underground or the Tube—is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire. The network opened in 1863 and contained of route track by 1975; that year three million people used the service each day. The Tube was one of the safest methods of transport in Britain in 1975. Apart from suicides, there were only 14 deaths on the Underground between 1938 and 1975, 12 of which occurred in the 1953 Stratford crash. Moorgate station, in the City"
"Buses, Tramlink, London Overground, London River Services and Docklands Light Railway. Crossrail, due to open in 2019, is to be identified with a roundel. The 100th anniversary of the roundel was celebrated in 2008 by TfL commissioning 100 artists to produce works that celebrate the design. Seventy of the 270 London Underground stations use buildings that are on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, and five have entrances in listed buildings. The Metropolitan Railway's original seven stations were inspired by Italianate designs, with the platforms lit by daylight from above and by gas lights in"
"NZ Rail 150 NZ Rail 150 was a celebration to celebrate 150 years of the New Zealand Railways, held in 2013 by KiwiRail, the Canterbury Railway Society, Ferrymead Heritage Park, and the Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand. The celebrations commenced 19 October with the Christchurch Model Train Show and carried on the next day. KiwiRail commenced their part in the celebrations on 29 September with their Exhibition Express that commenced in Auckland and traveled south to Invercargill and then finally to Lyttelton on 26 October. The Mainline Steam Heritage Trust also commenced their part for the celebrations on the"
"and the C Stock trains have recently been replaced by new seven-car S Stock trains, in a programme completed in 2015. In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon, connecting the Great Western Railway's relatively remote terminus at Paddington with Euston and King's Cross stations and the City, London's financial heart. In the same year a select committee report recommended an 'inner circle' of railway lines connecting the London termini that had been built or under construction. In the next year the Metropolitan District Railway (commonly known as the District Railway)"
"as ""Plarail Day"", where a commemorative limited edition item is released each year. In 1999, the 40th Anniversary of the Plarail system was celebrated with the release of a tinplate version of the C53-43 locomotive and carriage, as well as a re-release of the 'Plastic Railroad Set' with a battery-powered version of the original locomotive. In 2008, the Hyper Guardian Series was launched. In 2009, the 50th Anniversary of the Plarail system was celebrated. A new version of the original 'Plastic Railroad Set' was released titled the 'C12 Steam Train Arch Bridge and Rail Set', and the first official Plarail"
"running to Charlton, CWG suggest the current Jubilee Line not being able to cope with demand from the yet to be approved new Canada Water scheme. On 9 January 2013, the station appeared on a £1.28 British postage stamp as part of a set commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first London underground train journey. The stamp's captions read ""Jubilee Line at Canary Wharf"" and ""1999"". The Canary Wharf stamp represented the most modern phase of the Underground in the set of six stamps. The station was used as a location for some scenes of Danny Boyle's 2002 film ""28"
"both currently in passenger use in British Rail Blue & Grey livery, which both vehicles were painted in on the original run. 2008 was the 40th Anniversary since '1T57' and end of steam on British Railways and to celebrate a re-run of the tour ran on Sunday 10 August (as 11 August was a Monday in 2008). It again ran from Liverpool Lime Street-Newton Le Willows-Manchester Victoria-Carlisle-Blackburn-Newton Le Willows-Liverpool Lime Street. 2013 marked the 45th Anniversary of '1T57' and as 11 August was on a Sunday there was to be a second re-run. However due to the original route from"
"trains. Trains are also stabled overnight at Uxbridge, Watford, Rickmansworth and Wembley Park. In 1989, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Metropolitan to Chesham, the first Steam on the Met event took place with London Underground running two weekends of steam specials between Chesham and Watford. The event was a success and so in 1990 London Underground ran steam between Harrow and Amersham. In 1992, to celebrate 100 years of the Met at Amersham, the event was extended to five days at the end of May. From 1994, diesel locomotive 20227, owned by the Class 20"
"""Skyfall"" and temporarily returned to its original ""91007"" number to mark the James Bond film of the same name, which featured trains extensively and became the highest-grossing film of all time in the United Kingdom. On 14 October 2014, 91111 was unveiled to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I. The specially-designed East Coast locomotive, named 'For The Fallen', carries a livery filled with images, stories and tributes to regiments and people who served in them across the East Coast route. The public performance measure (PPM) shows the percentage of trains which arrive at their terminating station on time."
"months in 1856 it was ""Chigwell Road""). The railway's 150th anniversary was celebrated by an exhibition and activity day at Loughton station on 19 August 2006. The section of line between Loughton and Leyton is the oldest railway alignment in use of the London Underground system, pre-dating the Metropolitan Railway by some seven years. There are many bus routes in Loughton, which are either London Buses routes, commercial routes or Essex County Council contract routes. Services operating to destinations south of Loughton are mostly frequent and are London Buses services. Services operating to destinations north of Loughton are not London"
"Jubilee line The Jubilee line is a London Underground line that runs between in east London and in the suburban north-west, via the Docklands, South Bank and West End. Opened in 1979, it is the newest line on the network, although some sections of track date back to 1932 and some stations to 1879. The western portion beyond was previously a branch of the Bakerloo line, while the new build was completed in two major sections: initially in 1979 to , then in 1999 with an extension to Stratford. The later stations are larger and have special safety features, both"
"La Brugeoise subway carriages were replaced by new Chinese 200 Series rolling stock, just 11 months prior to their 100-year anniversary on the line. The original rolling stock has since been maintained, some in exhibition and some being converted to 1500 V to run tourist services on the line. During the festivities of the 100-year anniversary of the underground on 1 December 2013, many restored La Brugeoise trains circulated Line A and there was a symphonic orchestra at Plaza de Mayo station as well as free rides for the entire city in order to mark the event. Throughout the week"
"London's New Year's Day Parade The London New Year's Day Parade also known as ""LNYDP"" is an annual parade through the streets of the West End of London on 1 January. The parade first took place in 1987, as the Lord Mayor of Westminster's Big Parade. The parade was renamed in 1994 and for 2000 only it was called the Millennium Parade. The London parade is the biggest New Year's Day street event of its kind. It attracts around a million spectators, and there is ticket-only seating at various points along the route. The parade route is two miles (3.2"
"performances by members of Spandau Ballet. A Thanksgiving Service was held at St Paul’s Cathedral on 30 April 2013. In November, the train company First Capital Connect named one of its trains ""Dame Alice Owens 400 years of learning"" to honour the occasion. The programme of various sporting occasions, a drama production and a ball at the school (on 13 July 2013) ended with a carol service at St Albans Cathedral on 16 December 2013. Old Owenians could keep in touch with what was happening by joining the school’s 400th anniversary email list, to which over 3 300 alumni signed"
"the stations are shared with one or more of the three other sub-surface lines, namely the District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. On the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines combined, over 114 million passenger journeys were recorded in 2011/12. The first section became operational in 1863 when the Metropolitan Railway opened the world's first underground line between Paddington and with wooden carriages and steam locomotives. The same year a select committee report recommended an ""inner circle"" of lines connecting the London railway termini, and the Metropolitan District Railway (commonly known as the District Railway) was formed to build"
"are not included in the business case for the scheme. The project was approved by the Government on 14 December 2011 and clearing vegetation started during 2013. The project received final Government approval through an Order of the Transport and Works Act on 24 July 2013 and was signed off and formally given the green light by the government on 17 March 2015 when it was confirmed that Transport for London would be responsible. Work on the extension stopped in 2016 due to anticipated cost overruns and an unresolved dispute over funding. The present-day London Underground Watford Met station is"
"demolished in 1967, but remains of the platforms and goods dock are still visible. 2010 marked the Bluebell's 50th anniversary of running trains. To mark the event, the railway held a gala over 6–8 August 2010 with all available home engines and two visitor engines. Some of the society's founder members gathered at Horsted Keynes to mark the arrival of a commemorative LB&SCR A1X class No.55 ""Stepney""-hauled steam train. The entourage then travelled towards Sheffield Park. From its inception, the society had always planned to work northwards towards East Grinstead, where the line would connect with the national network. BR"
"29 July 1991 and connected with London Underground and then British Rail services. The DLR platforms were connected at one end to the Central line and at the other to Monument station. A new link between the Waterloo & City and the Central line was excavated which uncovered part of one of the Greathead tunnelling shields used for the Waterloo and City line. This shield forms part of the new passageway, and passengers pass through when transferring between the two lines. In January 1994 a statue of James Henry Greathead was erected outside the station, next to the Royal Exchange."
"1947 as ""Hanger Lane"" as it was near that road. The entrance and roof of the subsurface ticket hall form the centre of the Hanger Lane Gyratory System, a complex roundabout in West London where the A40 Western Avenue crosses the A406 North Circular Road in an underpass. Passengers must use pedestrian subways under the gyratory to access the station, which is itself above ground. In 2012 the station building exterior was repainted, refurbished and given new London Underground roundels. In 2018, it was announced that the station would gain step free access by 2022, as part of a £200m"
"would have been his 55th birthday, First Great Western named power car 43139 after the driver of the train. In July 2012 an Internet petition called for the level crossing to be replaced with a bridge. Network Rail subsequently announced that it was considering either converting the crossing to full barriers or a bridge. In March 2014, Network Rail stated that it ""remained on course"" to replace the level crossing ""by mid-2014 or 2015"". West Berkshire Council approved plans for a road bridge in August 2015, and preparatory work began the following month. On 18 April 2016, Network Rail held"
"buried at the station, to be unearthed in 2031. After a six-day shutdown, trains began running through the new tunnel on 18 July 2013. The final part of the project, the pedestrian underpass, was officially opened on 19 December 2013, signaling the completion of the rail project, six months ahead of schedule. The $249 million Perth Busport was the second stage of the Perth City Link. It involved the demolition of the Wellington Street Bus Station, which opened in 1973, and the construction of Australia's first dynamic stand allocation underground bus station at the same location. It opened on 17"
"under the auspices of British Railways Southern Region. On the 4 December 1957 the Lewisham rail crash occurred to the west of the station with 90 fatalities. As part of the London Bridge re-signalling a new loop line was opened with a reversible track down to the west (Fast Line) side of St Johns which opened up on 1 April 1976. Upon sectorisation in 1982, three passenger sectors were created: InterCity, operating principal express services; and London & South East (renamed Network SouthEast in 1986) who operated commuter services in the London area. Following de-nationalisation of British Rail on 1"
"is expected to change when it becomes a major interchange station between the two largest transport infrastructure programmes currently under construction in the city: Crossrail and the Thameslink Programme, both scheduled for completion in 2018–2019. The station was opened on 10 January 1863 as the terminus of the original Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground metro line. The station, initially named Farringdon Street, was originally a short distance from the present station building. The line ran from the Farringdon area to , a distance of . The station was relocated on 23 December 1865 when the Metropolitan Railway opened an"
"2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the railway. To commemorate this occasion a series of events were held during 2011, leading up to 'Stainmore 150', a large gala, where Steve Davis, the then-head of the National Railway Museum, drove the first fare-paying passenger train from the station in over 50 years, hauled by ex. Kirkby Stephen locomotive BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0 no. 78019. In 2013 the Stainmore Railway Company began its first operating season, running Peckett and Sons 0-4-0 'F C Tingey' on selected weekends. In 2014 this was joined by Yorkshire Engine Company 'Stanton 50' which operates diesel"
"not recovered, despite involving exactly the same circumstances - a situation he criticised while apologising to Lewis' mother. At the inquest, Hanson said that he thought that one of the engines had caught fire. On 12 June 2014, 12 years to the day after the crash, Lewis's death was commemorated by a flypast over Swanage station by a Lynx from RNAS Yeovilton, and the renaming of the preserved British Rail Class 33 diesel-electric locomotive No. D6515 to ""Lt Jenny Lewis RN"". Lewis was a fan of the class. The locomotive was used to haul trains between London and Corfe Castle"
"In December 2013 work started on an upgrade to the station, this included the opening of an additional car park in February 2014 and construction of a new station building. On New Year's Day 1946 it was the site of a points failure resulting in an express Fleetwood to London Broad Street fish train being diverted into a stationary local passenger train standing in the up platform loop, resulting in the deaths of 20 people and injury of 21 more. The disaster is one of the very rare cases in the UK of mechanical point interlocking failing to prevent an"
"House Railway staged a ceremony for Honing East Signal box for its 50th Year anniversary at its new home. A new 7¼"" gauge Riverside Railway was added in 1979. In 2013, Barton House Railway held their 50th Special anniversary, with celebrations happening all over the year from April to October. In mid-2012, Barton House Railway started to create a new line from the museum to the top lawn by the booking office; this line is still under construction. Barton House Railway The Barton House Railway (BHR) is a miniature railway in Wroxham, Norfolk; it is open on the third Sunday"
"was published by London-based publisher Art / Books in two editions in January 2013. In February 2013, it was announced that Wallinger had created ""Labyrinth""a set of 270 enamel plaques of unicursal labyrinth designs, one for every London tube station, to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground; each will be numbered according to its position in the route taken by the contestants in the 2009 Guinness World Record Tube Challenge. In October 2014, Art / Books published ""Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Mark Wallinger"", a comprehensive photographic book of all 270 labyrinth designs in situ in"