shuttles 150
Aldwych Shuttle 150–4
Chesham 77
Epping-Ongar 208–10
signalling 136–7, 267
Central Line 115
Jubilee Line 251
Metropolitan Railway 41
Northern Line 180
Sillince, W. A. 233
Sloane Square 30–1, 39, 40, 61, 228–9
Smith, Stephen 39, 130
Smithfield Market 17, 22, 55, 56
smoking xiii, 40, 42, 102, 246
Snaresbrook 207, 256
Snow Hill 55
Snow Hill Tunnel 54, 55, 56–7
Sonia 115
Soul of London, The (Ford) 135
South Eastern Railway 12, 56, 64, 73, 91
South Kensington 57, 59, 60, 62
South Kentish Town 263–4
‘South Kentish Town’ (Betjeman) 264
South West Trains 80, 81
see also London & South Western Railway
South Wimbledon 201
South Woodford 115
Southern Railway 113, 179
Southgate 133, 183, 189
Speyer, Sir Edgar 148, 149–50
Spiers and Pond 39
Spiller, George 44
Sprague, Frank 65
staff 6, 279
drivers 216, 217, 235–6
gatemen 147, 210
guards xiv, 210–11
train captains 277
Yerkes Tubes 147
Stalin, Joseph 66
Standard stock 210, 212
Stanley, Albert see Ashfield, Lord
Stanmore 173, 174, 240, 247, 251
stations
advertising 40–1
automatic ticket barriers 213, 235, 237–8, 244–5
bars 39
Big Tube 123–4
brick roofs 36
Central Line 115, 116–17, 207–8
City & South London Railway 101–2, 103, 105
closed down 263–4
East London Railway 91
escalators xiv–xv, 142, 217–19, 246, 261
ghosts 261, 263
glass roofs 31, 33, 36
Jubilee Line 247, 250
lighting 37–8
Metropolitan Railway 36–9
Northern Line 186–7
passenger flow 213–14
passimeters 184
Piccadilly Line 183, 184, 187–8, 189–90
renaming 117–18
signage 160
smoking ban 40
suicide pits 180–1
surface buildings 145
ticket offices 279
Tube Upgrade 255–6
Victoria Line 235, 237–8
visiting in record time 267–8
waiting rooms 39
Yerkes Tubes 145–6, 151
see also platforms
steam engines 41–5, 56, 65–6, 99–100, 208–9
Stentorphone 217
Stephenson, Robert 23
Stingemore, F. H. 199
Stockwell 99, 100, 230, 237
Stonebridge Park 168
Strand (station) 151, 154
see also Aldwych; Charing Cross
Strand (street) 82, 151
Strand Theatre 151, 154
Stratford 207, 250–1
Street-Porter, Janet 153
Stroud Green 205
Studies in Art, Architecture and Design (Pevsner) 162–3
Submarine Railway Company 75
Subterranea Britannica 266–7
Subterranean Railway, The (Wolmar) 11, 50, 113, 192, 239, 249, 257, 261
Sudbury Town 189
Sugg, Christopher 38
suicides 3, 180–1, 257–8, 277, 279, 280
Surbiton 276
Sutherland, Graham 161
Swinton Street 29
Swiss Cottage 51, 72
T
Tagholm, Roger xv–xvi
Telefunken 220
Temple 61–2, 197–8
Tennant, Sir James Henry 113–14, 115
Teredo navalis 88
Terris, William 261
Terry, Quinlan 237
Thames
bridges 80, 81
District Line 60
floodgates 31
tunnels 102–3, 131
under-river loop 178–9
Waterloo & City Railway 110
Thames Tunnel 86–90, 91, 92
Thameslink 51–7, 274
Thatcher, Mrs 8, 245
Theatre Express 150, 151–2
Theydon Bois 208
third-rail electrification 103, 125, 135–6
‘Thoughts on The Diary of a Nobody’ (Betjeman) 167
Three Hundred Years Hence (Hay) 97
Times, The 20–1, 35, 147, 219
Tokyo 214
Tottenham 133
Tottenham Court Road xvi, 255, 274
Tower Bridge 94
Tower Hill 48, 57, 65, 91, 94
Tower Subway 94–7
Town and Country Planning Act 1947 222
traction current 134–9
Trade Facilities Act 1921 177, 180
train captains 277
trains 210–13
air conditioning 277
air-brake compressor xv
automated announcements 114–15
automatically driven 115, 137
catering 226
Central Line 114–15, 119
City & South London Railway 102–4
driverless 277, 279
frequency 41, 67–8, 118
gauge 33
multiple units 112–13
one-person operated 210–11, 216, 246
Pullman service 73
smoking ban 40
speed 41
steam 41–5, 56, 65–6, 99–100, 208–9
Victoria Line 235–6, 238
Waterloo & City Railway 112
Yerkes Tubes 147
see also carriages
trams 83, 84, 148, 149, 159, 192
Transport for London (TfL) 252, 274
see also London Regional Transport
Trav-o-lator 111–12
Travers, Pat 59
Treasury 89, 177
Treats 39
Tube map see maps
‘Tube Talk’ xv–xvi, 31, 41
Tube Train, The (Power) 216
Tube Upgrade 6, 253, 254–6
Circle Line 68
increase in capacity 275
moving-block signalling 137
station restoration 146–7
trains 238
Victoria 236
Tubes v, 97–8, 253, 254
air-raid shelters 224–8
City & South London Railway 98–108
electrification 135
on map 204
shape 88
shortest 110
trains 33
tunnelling 86, 88
TubeWhizzard 125
Tufnell Park 146
tunnelling shields 86, 88, 95, 99, 115, 274
tunnels
Big Tube 121
Brunel 86–90, 91, 92
Central Line 117
City & South London Railway 99, 102, 104–5
cut-and-cover lines 35–6
East Finchley to Morden 179
lights 145
Liverpool-Manchester railway 24
Metropolitan Railway 5, 51
minimum diameter 109
projected images 279–80
secret 261
Snow Hill 54, 55, 56–7
Thames 131
Tower Subway 94–7
Waterloo & City Railway 112
Tuppenny Tube 101, 118
see also Central London Railway
Twain, Mark 42–3, 84, 106
Twenty Minutes Letter to the Citizens of London, A (Pearson) 27
Tyburn brook 31
typefaces 93, 160, 161
U
Underground (film) 217
Underground Electric Railways of London (UER
L) (Underground Group) 148, 149, 159, 175, 191–2, 193
headquarters 188–9
map 198–200
shareholders 142
Stanley and Pick 155–9, 182
Tube lines 143–8
Yerkes 126, 132
see also London Transport
Underground London (Smith) 39, 130
Underground News 261, 266, 270
Underground Railway Block 160
Underground Ticketing System (UTS) 244–5
Underground to Everywhere (Halliday) 132, 142, 156, 169, 224, 261
Underground Writing (Welsh) 59, 97, 100–1, 215
United States 101, 112, 116, 127, 142
Upminster 79, 268
Uxbridge 71, 182
V
Verney Junction 71, 72–3, 76, 171
Victoria, Queen 99
Victoria (railway station) 203
Victoria (Underground station)
Circle Line 48
District Line 61
hustlers 214
pumping house 31
Victoria Line 234, 235, 236
Victoria Line 110, 233, 234–8
automatic ticket gates 213
colour 201
Finsbury Park 123
platforms 5
secret tunnel 261
stations 6
trains 115, 137, 210–11, 216
wooden benches 246
Victoria Line, The (Horne) 236, 237–8
Vine, Barbara 66, 181
W
waiting rooms 39
Walbrook, Waterloo & City Railway 110
Walk the Lines (Mason) 165–6
walking 165–6
Waltham Abbey 133
Walthamstow 235
Walton, Mike 269, 270
Wanstead 207
Wapping 90, 92–3
Warren Street 146, 237
Waste Land, The (Eliot) 108
Waterloo (railway station) 111
Waterloo (Underground station) 151
Jubilee Line 249
‘Mind the Gap’ announcement 220, 221
Northern Line 178
Waterloo & City Line 109–10, 111
Waterloo & City Line 31, 109–13, 131, 159, 191, 192, 237
Waterloo & City Railway 109
Watford 71
Watford Junction 168
Watkin, Sir Edward 63–4, 73, 75, 141
Chesham 77
death 76
Metropolitan Railway 63, 65, 72
South Eastern Railway 56, 64, 91
‘Way Out, The’ 125
Weightman, Gavin 83
Weinreb, Ben 82
Wellington, Duke of 87
Wells, H. G. 97, 100, 172
Welsh, David 59, 97, 100–1, 215
Welwyn 183
Wembley Park 173, 266
West Brompton 79, 80
West End 122, 124, 133, 234, 236
West Finchley 220
West Ham 250
West Ham Corporation Tramways 161
West London Line 49, 79
West Ruislip 207
Westbourne Park 50
Westbourne River 31, 61
Westminster
District Line 59, 61
Jubilee Line 247
MPs’ tunnel 261
Westway 50
When in Doubt Take the Underground (Hassall) 162
Whipple, Dorothy 1, 2
Whistler, James McNeill 139
White City 119–20
Whitechapel (railway station) 23
Whitechapel (Underground station) 64, 91, 94
District Line 79
pickpockets 260
Whiteleys 82
Wilson, A. N. 170
Wilson, J. M. 54
Wimbledon 71, 81, 200–1
Windsor 80
Winner, Michael 5, 220
Wolmar, Christian 11, 50, 113, 192, 239, 249, 257, 261
Wood Green 271
Wood Lane 119–20
Woodford 256
Woodside Park 220
Wright, Alan 60
Wright, James Whitaker 130–2, 141
Wright, Ronald 267
Y
Yerkes, Charles Tyson 126–30, 132–4, 135, 139, 141–50, 175, 214
Yerkes Observatory 142–3
York Road 183
Young Men’s Christian Association 159