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
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