Great Portland Street
A scene on the world's first Underground, the Metropolitan Railway, with a now withdrawn train of LUL C69 stock on a Hammersmith & City Line service to Barking departing from Great Portland Street station, while just above outside in the street heavy snow was falling, on 20th January 2013. Wikipaedia, like most Londoners, insists on calling the sub-surface lines 'tubes' which is quite incorrect. It was only when the deep-level lines that were bored through the clay came into being, starting with the City & South London Railway (now part of the Northern Line) in 1890, that the word 'tube' was coined but that term is now applied, very wrongly, to the entire London Underground network.
Location: Great Portland Street
Original line: Metropolitan Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Now withdrawn LU C stock trains, 2011-2014
Date: 20/01/2013
Image number: 71764
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