The Metropolitan Railway, London, 1862 (original) (raw)

The Metropolitan Railway, London, before its official opening. 1862. According to Betjeman, "William Ewart Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, is on the right of the man wearing a white hat.

References

Betjeman, John. Victorian and Edwardian London from Old Photographs. London: B. T. Batsford, 1969. Plate 147.

Wolmar, Christian. The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground was built and how it changed the city forever. Rev. ed. London: Atlantic Books, 2005.

Last modified 3 January 2006