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by Andrew Martin


  Leinster Gardens 5, 58–9

  Leyton 207, 208

  Leytonstone 5, 207, 208

  “Life in London” (Travers) 59

  Lindsay, Sir Coutts 83

  Liverpool 24

  Liverpool Street

  Central Line 116, 204, 207

  East London Line 90

  Metropolitan Line 39, 57

  Livingstone, Ken 241–2, 243–4, 245–6, 251–4

  Lodge, Peter 220–1

  logo see roundel

  London

  buses 18, 20–1, 34, 84–5

  electricity 83–4

  expansion 8, 11–12

  Green Belt 8, 149, 206, 209, 221–2

  mayor 251–2

  Metroland 168–74

  music halls 82

  population 81, 166, 240, 241

  railways 12–14, 23–5, 52–4

  red 211–12

  ringways 242–3

  shops 82–3

  slums 16

  sound 21

  south 97–8

  streets 21–2

  suburbs 81–2, 166–8, 240, 275–6

  trams 84

  London: A History (Black) 166

  London: The Biography (Ackroyd) 21, 29–30, 106, 165

  London: The Unique City (Rasmussen) 223

  London & Birmingham Railway (L&B) 13–14

  London & Blackwell Railway 13

  London & Brighton Railway 12

  London & Croydon Railway 12

  London and Globe Finance Corporation 130, 131–2

  London & Greenwich Railway 12, 13, 20

  London & North Eastern Railway (LNER)

  colours 256

  electrification 205–6

  Epping-Ongar line 207, 209

  freight 76, 91

  and Piccadilly Line 182, 183

  see also Great Northern Railway

  London & North Western Railway 167–8

  London & South Western Railway 80, 81, 110, 113, 159

  see also South West Trains

  London Bridge (railway station) 12

  London Bridge (Underground station) 102, 104, 105

  London Brighton & South Coast Railway 12, 91

  London, Chatham & Dover Railway 52, 54, 56, 64

  London County Council (LCC) 148–9, 166, 169, 191

  Kingsway 150, 151

  see also Greater London Council; Metropolitan Board of Works

  London Encyclopaedia, The (Weinreb and Hibbert) 82

  London Evening Standard xv, 238

  London General Omnibus Company 85, 158, 159, 191

  London Hydraulic Power Company 94

  London Overground 2–3, 94, 120

  East London Line 93, 94

  Richmond 80

  Stratford 250

  London Passenger Transport Board see London Transport

  London Regional Transport 245–6, 252

  see also Transport for London (TfL)

  London Rhapsody (Frosterus) 111

  London Road Car Company 85

  London Transport 192–3

  Big Tube 123, 125

  Central Line 114

  East London Railway 91–2

  Heathrow 184

  Lost Property Office 193–7

  map 197–8, 200–4

  Metropolitan Railway 76

  nationalisaton 233–4

  New Works Programme 193, 205–10, 211, 233

  Pick 222

  postcards 117

  see also Underground Electric Railways of London

  London Transport at War (Graves) 226

  London Transport Board 239, 241

  London Transport Executive 233, 234

  London Transport Museum 102–3, 117, 203, 269–70, 271–2

  London Underground Gourmet 271

  London Underground Limited 246, 252

  London Underground Railway Society 211, 265–6

  London Underground Stations (Leboff) 37, 79, 208

  London United Tramways 84, 126, 132–3

  London’s Disused Underground Stations (Connor) 263

  London’s Historic Railway Stations (Betjeman) 59

  London’s Metropolitan Railway (Jackson) 2, 36

  Lord of the Dynamos, The (Wells) 100

  Lord’s 117, 173–4

  Lost London (Davies) 22

  Lost Property Office 193–7

  Lothbury 123

  Lots Road 139–41

  love 258–9

  Ludgate Circus 52, 54

  Ludgate Hill 52

  M

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington 165

  McKie, David 130–1

  McLaughlin, Mr 267

  Maidenhead 274

  Maile, William 196–7

  Malins, Richard 245

  Man from the North, A (Bennett) xi, 80–1, 166

  Man in the Brown Suit, The (Christie) 137–8

  Man Ray 143

  Man Who Built London Transport, The (Barman) 157, 160–1, 179, 186

  Manchester Guardian 188, 189

  Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway 64, 73, 75

  Mandelson, Peter 191

  Manhunt 138

  Manor House xii

  Mansion House 63, 65

  maps 158, 197–9

  Beck xii, 8, 199–204

  Central Line 114

  Circle Line 66

  District Line 60

  East London Line 92, 93

  ‘The Way Out’ 125

  Marble Arch 4

  Marchant, Ian 272

  Marks, Laurence 124–5

  Marlborough Road 173

  Marshall, Geoff 268

  Martin, John 15

  Marylebone (railway station) 75, 78

  Marylebone (Underground station) 75

  Marylebone Road 17

  Mason, Mark 165–6

  Matthew, H. G. C. 34

  Mayhew, Henry 46

  MCC 117, 173

  Memories of London in the 1940s 21

  Metroland 76, 168–74

  Metroland (Barnes) 72

  Metroland (Betjeman) 170–2

  Metronet 253–4

  Metropolitan & St John’s Wood Railway 51

  Metropolitan Board of Works 61, 64, 148

  see also London County Council

  Metropolitan District Electric Traction Company 130

  Metropolitan District Railway 48, 129–30

  see also District Line

  Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion Company 64

  Metropolitan Line 1, 6

  Baker Street 37

  and Circle Line 68

  classes 46

  colour 200

  electrification 233

  postcards 117

  tunnels 5

  Metropolitan Murder, A (Jackson) 39

  Metropolitan Railway 158, 159, 191, 192

  air quality 42–4

  bars 39

  Big Tube 123, 124

  Brunel tunnel 90

  carriages 38, 77–8

  City Widened Lines 51–7, 61, 121

  class consciousness 38, 45–7

  construction 28–9, 31

  and District 57, 62, 79

  East London Section 91–2

  electrification 126, 135, 141

  expansion 71–8, 134, 168, 173–4

  Extension Railway 51, 168–9

  Fleet River 29, 30

  gauge 33

  Hammersmith & City Railway 49–50

  Inner Circle 48, 64–6, 91

  Leinster Gardens 5, 58–9

  on maps 66

  Metroland 168–73

  Moorgate 48, 105, 122

  nostalgic affection for 134–5

  opening 10, 11, 28, 34–5, 60

  operation 41

  passenger numbers 64

  Pearson 26–7, 35

  smoking ban 42

  stations 36–40

  steam engines 1–2, 41–5, 99–100

  Watkin 63

  ‘Metropolitan Railway, The’ (Betjeman) 17
2

  ‘Middlesex’ (Betjeman) 171–2

  Midland Railway 25, 54–5, 56, 75

  Milburn 59

  Mill, John Stuart 42

  Mill Hill East 5, 205, 206

  Mill Hill The Hale 206–7

  Millennium Dome 60–1, 249–50

  Miller, Jonathan 259

  Mills, Darius Ogden 116

  ‘Mind the Gap’ announcement 5, 116, 219–21

  Misery Line see Northern Line

  Miss Wingrove (Risque) 151

  mobile phones 277

  models 211, 268–9

  Modern Wonder 279

  ‘Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Station’ (Betjeman) 33

  Monument Street 105

  Monument to the Great Fire of London 11

  Moor Park 171

  Moore, Henry 188, 228

  Moorgate

  Big Tube 121–2, 123

  City & South London Railway 3, 105, 106

  disaster 124–5

  Metropolitan Railway 48, 52, 54–5, 56

  in poetry xvi

  moquettes

  District Line 6, 270

  Victoria Line 213

  Morden 108, 149, 179, 180

  Morgan, John Pierpont 132–4

  Mornington Crescent 201, 264–5

  Morrison, Herbert 191–2, 224, 230, 239, 241

  Morrow, George 214

  Moscow Metro 4, 66, 207, 208

  Move to Edgware 162

  moving walkway 111–12

  moving-block signalling 137, 251

  Mr Beck’s Underground Map (Garland) 200, 201, 203

  Müller, Franz 16

  multiple units 112–13, 119, 147, 211

  murder 16–17

  Murray, Dick 180

  music halls 82

  Muswell Hill 206

  My Early Life (Churchill) 80

  Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway, The (Orczy) 134–5

  N

  Napoleonic Wars 87

  Nash, Paul 161

  National Express East Anglia 183

  National Gallery 152

  Neasden 141, 170

  Network South-East 120

  New Bond Street 115

  New Cross 90, 91

  New Cross Gate 91

  New Oxford Street 21

  New Road 14, 17–18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 28–9

  see also Euston Road

  New Works Programme 123, 193, 205–10, 211, 233

  New York 4, 101, 271

  Newson, Leslie 124–5

  Nichols, Captain G. H. F. 144

  Nicholson, Geoff 165

  Night (Epstein) 188

  No Need to Ask! (Leboff and Demuth) 198

  Norfolk, Duke of 61–2

  North Acton 207

  North Eastern Railway 113–14, 148, 156

  North End 144

  North Greenwich 249, 250

  North Harrow 72

  North London Link 120

  North London Railway 93, 94

  Northern Heights programme 205–7

  Northern Line xii, 3, 108, 133, 134, 148, 175–81

  Bank branch 3, 98–108

  Camden 274

  Charing Cross branch 6, 126

  Edgware 69

  Embankment 179

  Euston 236–7

  extensions 133, 274

  floodgates 31

  London Bridge 105

  memorabilia 271–2

  Morden extension 186–7

  Mornington Crescent 201

  New Works 233

  Northern City branch 123

  Northern Heights programme 205–7

  platform gaps 220, 221

  south of the river 98

  stations 186–7

  trains 211

  Northfields 263, 279

  Northwood 72

  Notting Hill 31, 33

  Notting Hill Gate 57, 116

  Nouvel, Jean 212

  nuclear bunker 209–10

  O

  O2 centre 249

  Observer, The 237

  Old London Underground Company 263

  Old Street 122

  Olympia see Kensington (Olympia)

  Olympia & York 249

  Olympics

  1908 119

  1948 120

  2012 61, 250

  omnibuses see buses

  one-person-operated (O.P.O.) trains 210–11, 216, 246

  Ongar 201, 207, 208–9

  Orczy, Baroness 134–5

  Orwell, George 17, 40–1, 170, 215–16, 232

  Otis 219

  O’Toole, Tim 216

  Oval 99, 104, 118

  Overground see London Overground

  Oxford Circus 40, 146, 236, 237

  Oxford Companion to British Railway History, The 15, 24, 99, 112

  Oxford English Dictionary 99

  Oxford Street 17, 21, 82, 114, 117

  Oyster Card 47, 245

  P

  Pac-Mac’s Drinking Den 39

  Paddington (railway station) 14, 23

  Paddington (Underground station)

  Bakerloo Line 130, 143, 167

  Hammersmith & City Line 37, 49

  Mayhew 46

  Metropolitan Railway 1, 10, 26, 35, 37, 57

  Palmer, Mr 232

  Parallel Lines (Marchant) 272

  Paris Metro 4, 145, 146, 159, 180, 279

  Park Lea 130–1

  Parliamentary Trains 34

  Parrington, Edwin 158

  Parry, Richard 117–18, 163, 165

  Parsons Green v, xiii, 80, 81, 271

  passenger flow 213–21

  passenger safety alarm 258

  Paxton, Joseph 23

  Pears, Charles 163

  Pearson, Charles 10–11, 13, 14, 16, 128, 141, 274, 280

  atmospheric railway plan 22–3, 24

  City Terminus Bill 25–6

  death 35

  Metropolitan Railway 26–7

  walking 165

  workmen’s fares 45, 47

  Penguin Guide to London, The 98

  Pennick, Nigel 131

  Pentonville Road 17

  Pevsner, Nikolaus 162–3

  Piccadilly 41

  Piccadilly & Brompton Railway 130, 133, 158

  Piccadilly Circus xii, 187

  Piccadilly Line xii, 122, 126, 130, 134, 144, 183

  Arsenal 117

  Down Street 231–2

  extensions 148, 182–3

  Finsbury Park 123

  Hammersmith 50

  Heathrow 184

  Manhunt 138

  stations 5, 6, 187–8, 189–90

  trains 211, 279

  see also Great Northern Piccadilly and Brompton Railway

  Pick, Frank 6, 8, 155, 156–7, 159, 160–1, 167, 168–9, 200, 207

  buses 223

  and Churchill 222–3

  death 223

  Down Street 231

  Golders Green 176–7

  Green Belt 209, 221–2

  and Holden 184, 186, 189, 214

  London Transport 193

  Piccadilly Line 182, 183

  posters 161–2, 213, 270

  resigns from London Transport 222

  roundel 159

  Underground Group 191, 192

  Underground Group headquarters 188

  pickpockets 260

  Piece of Cake, The 39

  pigeons 259–60

  Pimlico 236

  Pinner 72, 171

  platforms

  Big Tube 123–4

  East London Line 93

  Finsbury Park 5

  gaps 219–21

  hustlers 214

  platform edge doors 277, 279

  tiles 6

  Playgoer Travels Underground, The (Pears) 163

  Pneumatic Despatch Railway 23

  Polley, John 268–9

  polycentric working 276

  Post Office 23–4

  Post Office (station) see St Paul’s

  posters xii, xiii,
161–5, 214–15, 270

  Power, Cyril Edward 216

  Praed Street 37

  Prodigy 153

  Public Benefit Boot Company 198

  Public Private Partnership (PPP) 253–4

  Punch 15, 99–100, 102, 104, 118, 162, 165, 233

  Putney 60

  Putney Bridge 80, 81

  Q

  Quainton Road 72, 73, 75

  Queen Mary 188

  Queen Victoria Street 22

  Queen’s Park 167–8

  Queensbury 247

  Queensway 57, 271

  R

  Rails through the clay (Jackson and Croome) 123, 127, 147, 261

  Railway Act 1844 34

  Railway Executive Committee 222, 231

  Railway Lover’s Companion, The (Ellis) 104

  Railway Magazine 10, 34, 73, 118, 144

  Railway Regulation Bill 1868 42

  Railways on the Screen (Huntley) 138

  Rasmussen, Steen Eller 223

  Ravenscourt Park 80

  Ray Street Gridiron 55

  red 211–12

  Redbridge 207

  Redhead, Mark 259

  Regent Street 82

  Regent’s Park 146–7

  Riceyman Steps (Bennett) 30

  Richmond 71, 79, 80

  Rickmansworth 76, 233

  Ridley, Nicholas 40

  Risque, W. H. 151

  Robber Baron (Franch) 126, 143

  Robbins, Michael 20–1, 85, 101, 127, 128, 132

  Roberts, Lunt 214–15

  Robinson, Robert 267, 268

  Rodding Valley 5

  Rodley, Nicholas 259

  Rogue Male (Household) 152

  Ross, Philip 276

  Rotherhithe 87, 93

  Rothschild, Natty 116

  roundel 6, 8, 93, 143, 159–60, 186, 270–1

  Routemaster bus 242

  Routledge, Robert 36

  Royal Commission on Metropolitan Termini 24–5

  Royal Oak 50

  Rubaiyat of Totteridge and Whetstone, The (Tagholm) xvi

  Run for Your Money, A 153

  Rushton, Willie 265

  Ruskin, John 160

  Russell Square 146

  S

  S stock trains 210, 277

  St James’s Park 61, 188

  St John’s Wood 174, 247

  see also Lord’s

  St Mary Woolnoth 106, 108

  St Pancras 25, 54–5, 95

  see also King’s Cross St Pancras

  St Pancras Station (Bradley) 55

  St Paul’s 116

  St Petersburg 87

  Schofield, Molly 196–7

  Scott-Morgan, John 45

  Scotting, Sandra 229–30

  seats 219

  armrests 114, 117

  moquettes 6, 213, 270

  Second World War 222

  air-raid shelters 105, 224–33

  Aldwych Shuttle 152

  floodgates 31

  Thames 179

  Selfridge, Gordon 117

  Selfridges 82, 83, 117, 118

  Severin, Marc 163

  Shadwell 91, 92

  Shanghai 4

  Shelter Sketchbooks (Moore) 228

  Shenfield 274

  Shepherd’s Bush 116

  Shillibeer, George 18, 20, 102

  ship worm 88

  shops 82–3, 117, 118

  Shops and Companies of London, The (Mayhew) 46

  Shoreditch 90

  short stages 18

 

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