The Morden-Edgware Line #4
Continuing the Morden Edgware Line series. So far there’s been three specific Morden Edgware line posts plus one spin off. These are shown below: Morden-Edgware Line #1Morden-Edgware Line #2Morden-Edgware Line #3 (Leicester Square Special) Woodstock (Brent Cross) on the Edgware Line Modern-Edgware Line in print (2): The 1930s-1950s tube maps:…
Give my regards (to Broad Street)
Forty years ago in 1983 a noted pop star gave his regards to Broad Street! The iconic London railway terminus was given a few minutes of fame just a couple of years before bulldozers moved in and razed the entire station to the ground. Give My Regards to Broad Street…
Coffee Pot Signals 2023
Coffee pot signals developed from the very early types of signals in use on the tube and indeed these were derived from the most simple hand held railway lamps. When exactly it was that coffee pots signals were first used on London’s underground is not known, although general consensus is…
Woodstock (Edgware line)
The line from central London to Edgware was built in three stages. First the section from Charing Cross to Golders Green where a terminus and a large depot had been built was opened in 1907. The next stage to Hendon opened in November 1923 and the final stage to Edgware…
The Morden – Edgware Line #3 Leicester Square special
A tweet by Tim Dunn about the new rotunda at Leicester Square in ‘Northern Line’ days (it actually opened in Morden-Edgware line days) prompted an even deeper look at the archives at the LT Museum – plus some detail from a post I wrote in 2016. Hence this is an…
The Morden – Edgware Line #2
The Morden-Edgware Line was a real London tube line few have heard of even though most know it as the Northern Line! Surely the Morden-Edgware was a total misnomer especially when it came to renaming the line in 1937 – and the Northern Line is in fact the better choice?…
The Morden – Edgware Line
The Morden-Edgware Line – a real London tube line few have heard of – even though its to all purposes and intents the Northern Line! The Morden-Edgware Line is practically an unknown in terms of the history of the London Underground. Certainly it is mentioned in quite a number of…
East London Line Renewal 2006 – 2010
This post was originally written in 2020 for the 10th anniversary of the East London Line but it never got published! It was to be a follow up to the earlier East London Line 10 years on. The difference was the first feature (published April 2020) covered the line’s history from…
The Tokyo to Osaka Line #8: Addenda
Following the publication of the five parts of the The Tokyo to Osaka Line covering the classic railway route and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, three further parts were drawn up covering other aspects of the New Tōkaidō Line. In other words mostly stuff that’s little known to the English speaking world!…
Rails – to the Moon
Sylvester Marsh was a New England entrepreneur whose proposed mountain line received considerable ridicule when the idea was put forward in the late 1850s – for it was seen as a ‘railway to the moon!’ People thought the idea most inconceivable and it was a struggle for Marsh to get…