The world's commencement surreptitious railway work opened inwards London inwards 1863. The Metropolitan Railway ran from Paddington to Farringdon Street. The work was a huge success (it carried 38,0000 passengers on its commencement day) together with it wasn't long earlier the work was extended together with novel lines were built.
To this 24-hour interval the London Underground continues to grow. Last calendar month tunneling began to extend the Northern Line from Kennington to Battersea. This extension to the Northern Line should opened upwards inwards 2020.
If you lot are interested inwards visualizing how the London Underground has grown since1863 together with thus you lot tin purpose the novel Citylines interactive map. Citylines is busy mapping the history of the world's carry networks together with provides mapped visualizations of the increment of metropolis transit networks over time.
Click on a transit work or station on a city's transit map on Citylines together with you lot tin persuasion details on when it was constructed together with added to the city's shipping network. If you lot purpose the fourth dimension slider inwards the map sidebar you lot tin persuasion the extent of the city's transit network for whatsoever twelvemonth inwards its history. In other words you lot tin purpose the fourth dimension slider to persuasion how the city's transit network has grown over time.
