Borough
The northbound platform at Borough station, LUL Northern Line, looking south, on 1st January 2019. This is one of the original stations on the world's first deep-level Underground, the City & South London Railway (originally to have been called the City of London & Southwark Subway) that opened on 18th December 1890. The station and line closed for two years between 1922 and 1924 to enable the tunnels to be enlarged (with replacement bus services running) and at the same time, the line was connected to the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, opened on 22nd June 1906, at Camden Town in the north and at Kennington in the south. When reopened in 1924, the combined line became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when somebody at the LPTB decided to rename it the Northern Line, notwithstanding that a large portion of the route lies in SOUTH London! Obviously one of London Transport's little jokes which has remained to the present day.
Location: Borough
Original line: London and Southwark Subway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: LU Northern Line + 1938 and 1995 stock, 1973-2022 London Underground stations 2010-2023
Date: 01/01/2019
Image number: 68714
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