London Underground 160th Anniversary, 10.1.23

The 160th Anniversary of the first section of the Metropolitan Railway, which is NOT a tube, its a sub-surface line, despite the emblem at Baker Street, on 10th January 2023.
David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/F/Farringdon'>Farringdon</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>LU S7 stock with a clockwise Circle Line service departing from Farringdon station on 10th January 2023, the 160th Anniversary of the opening of the first section of the Worlds First Underground line. 1/7</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Great_Portland_Street'>Great Portland Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Great Portland Street station, as rebuilt in 1930, on 10th January 2023, the 160th anniversary of its opening as Portland Road with the first stage of the Metropolitan Railway. It was renamed 100 years ago in 1923 but in fact fronts onto Marylebone Road. 2/7</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Great_Portland_Street'>Great Portland Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>LU S7 stock on clockwise Circle Line service departing from Great Portland Street on 10th January 2023, the 160th anniversary of its opening as Portland Road with the first stage of the Metropolitan Railway, renamed in 1923. This station in particular has a lot of its original Victorian brickwork on show on both platforms although, sadly, hoardings cover some of this up at both ends. 3/7</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Baker_Street_Met'>Baker Street [Met]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Unlike the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Railway in 2013, where all kinds of events were held, this was TfL's only nod to the 160th anniversary, seen here at Baker Street station on the day, 10th January 2023. Of course the Metropolitan is NOT and never has been a tube (by rights it is a cut-and-cover subway). The term originated from the City and South London Railway but is now applied, quite wrongly, to the entire London Underground system. 4/7</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Baker_Street'>Baker Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Baker Street, on the World's First Underground, the Metropolitan Railway, looking east on its 160th birthday on 10th January 2023. It was restored in 1983 to resemble as closely as possible how it looked in mid-Victorian times. The vents above the walls on both platforms were once open to the sky, letting in natural daylight, but were filled-in before the refurbishment with lights installed later to help resemble daylight and the Victorian effect. Note also the widened platforms over the site of the lifted GWR broad gauge rails. 5/7</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Baker_Street_Met'>Baker Street [Met]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Chiltern Court, the luxury block of flats built over the entrance to Baker Street station in 1929, seen here on 10th January 2023, 160 years to the day since the station opened with the first stage of the world's first Undergound, the Metropolitan Railway. 6/7</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Edgware_Road'>Edgware Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Edgware Road station, as rebuilt in 1925, seen here on 10th January 2023, 160 years to the day after its opening with the first stage of the Metropolitan Railway. There are two stations of this name on the London Underground, the other being about 150 metres away on the Bakerloo Line. That at least is sited on Edgware Road whereas the Metropolitan station is round the corner on Chapel Street. Suggestions that one or other is renamed, and the Met station would be the prime candidate, have all fallen on deaf ears. It is surprising that a low level pedestrian subway between the two has never been considered. 7/7</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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