THE CITY & SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY

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From 1908, they began to present themselves through common branding as the Underground. The Waterloo and City Railway, operated by the mainline London and South Western Railway, was the only tube railway that did not participate in the arrangement. At the same time, the UERL also bought the Central London Railway, swapping one of its shares for one of the Central's On 13 October 2005 the Northern line service was suspended due to maintenance problems with the emergency braking system on the entire train fleet. [27] A series of rail replacement buses was used to connect outlying stations with other Underground lines. [28] Full service was restored on 18 October. New safety and fire regulations are introduced following the Fennell Report into the King's Cross fire

Work to install new signalling and control system begins on the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines - the Four Lines Modernisation (4LM) project The C&SLR stations at Angel and Euston were also originally constructed with a single central platform. Reconstruction means that the original station tunnel now serves trains in one direction only – trains in the other direction have been diverted into a new tunnel. a b "Boris slammed on South London Line". South London Press. 12 October 2009 . Retrieved 18 October 2009. The peak-hour service pattern was to be 21 trains an hour each way on the High Barnet branch north of Camden Town, 14 of them via the Charing Cross branch and seven via the Bank branch. 14 would have continued on beyond Finchley Central, seven each on the High Barnet and Edgware branches. An additional seven trains an hour would have served the High Barnet branch, but continued via Highgate High-Level and Finsbury Park to Moorgate, a slightly shorter route to the City. It does not seem to have been intended to run through trains to the ex-Northern City branch from Edgware via Finchley Central. Seven trains an hour would have served the Alexandra Palace branch, to/from Moorgate via Highgate High-Level. In addition to the 14 through trains described, the ex-Northern City branch would have had 14 four-car shuttle trains an hour. Between September 1940 and May 1945 most Tube station platforms are used as air raid shelters. Some, like the Piccadilly line Holborn-Aldwych branch, are closed to store British Museum treasuresthrough a red painted door onto a landing on the emergency staircase, underneath the original London Bridge Underground station. On 13 August 2010, a defective rail maintenance train caused disruption on the Charing Cross branch, after it travelled four miles in 13 minutes without a driver. The train was being towed to the depot after becoming faulty. At Archway station, the defective train became detached and ran driverless until coming to a stop at an incline near Warren Street station. This caused morning rush-hour services to be suspended on this branch. All passenger trains were diverted via the Bank branch, with several not stopping at stations until they were safely on the Bank branch. [30] [31]

Construction of the two authorised extensions was delayed while funds were raised and plans were finalised. Between 1895 and 1898, three further bills were put before Parliament to keep the permissions alive and obtain additional approvals: It was used as a WW2 shelter, and later for document storage, but has otherwise remained a lost echo of the early transport history, until now.The bill received Royal Assent as the City of London and Southwark Subway Act, 1884 on 28 July 1884. Section 5 of the Act stated: "The works authorised by this Act are as follows:- A subway commencing ... near ... Short Street at the ... junction ... with Newington Butts and terminating at King William Street ...The subway shall consist of two tubes for separate up and down traffic and shall be approached by means of staircases and by hydraulic lifts." The LBSCR scheme, authorised in 1903, pioneered main-line rail electrification in the UK, and the first electric train ran on 1 December 1909. For the following three years, steam trains alternated with electrics, the latter operating every 15 minutes from 7.30am to midnight. Passenger numbers had fallen on introducing electric tramways in South London by 1.25million in six months. In the first year of the rival line's electric operation passengers increased from 4million to 7.5million. The electrification used the overhead system at 6700 V AC, supplied by a power station at Deptford. [1] After creation of the Big Four railway companies, the Southern Railway installed standard third-rail 660 V DC supply on 17 June 1928. [1] Pre-extension route Despite the modernisation of the C&SLR and other improvements made to other parts of the network, [note 13] the Underground railways were still struggling to make a profit.

The C2C which transports 916 million passengers per year, is the Essex Thameside franchise since 1996 and is operated by National Express. The works authorised by this Act are as follows: "A subway commencing ... near ... Short Street at the ... junction ... with Newington Butts and terminating at King William Street ... "The subway shall consist of two tubes for separate up and down traffic and shall be approached by means of staircases and by hydraulic lifts." Major Northern line signalling upgrade is completed, increasing passenger capacity by 20% and reducing journey times by 18% The CCE&HR (commonly known as the "Hampstead Tube") was opened in 1907 and ran from Charing Cross (known for many years as Strand) via Euston and Camden Town (where there was a junction) to Golders Green and Highgate (now known as Archway). It was extended south by one stop to Embankment in 1914 to form an interchange with the Bakerloo and District lines. In 1913 the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL), owner of the CCE&HR, took over the C&SLR, although they remained separate companies.an extension of time for the 1890 Act and to allow for a new approach tunnel to be built into King William Street station. [33] Approved as the City and South London Railway Act, 1895 on 14 April 1895. [34] This is King William Street station, and it’s currently serving a useful function as part of the Bank station upgrade project, which I wrote about last week. The Price of ELL Phase 2: Victoria-Bellingham Cancelled". London Reconnections (blog). 23 April 2009. Archived from the original on 16 October 2010 . Retrieved 31 October 2009. Although the lift shaft that passengers would have used is long since gone, the spiral staircase remains, and that’s how people get down to the disused tube station. The Northern line is extended to Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms - the first major Tube extension this century