Railway line, known as the 'Twopenny Tube', as all tickets were sold at the price of two pre-decimal pennies. It was taken over by London Underground, becoming the Central line.
See for a good succinct history of the line.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Central London Railway
Lancaster Gate is a London Underground station on the Central line. The plaqu...
This station was created in two halves. The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened their side (the west side, largely outside our photo, on the right) in 1860. The east side, The London Cha...
Asquith Camile Xavier was born in the West Indies. One of the Windrush generation who migrated to the UK after WW2. He died Chatham, Kent. In 1966 Xavier successfully fought to become the first Bl...
Leonard Philip Maris was born in 1886 in Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, the youngest of the ten children of Alfred Maris (1841-1886) and Mary Ann Maris née Chittenden (1846-1930).His birth was regis...
As we write the work on the new river-spanning Blackfriars Station is close to completion.  It seems Blackfriars Station has never known whether it is a North or a South Londoner.  The first Blackf...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them