The Circle line name was not used officially until 1936 – but its existence is fundamental to the Tube’s early beginnings.

The Hammersmith & City line was largely built on a viaduct across fields in west London, also using the “cut and cover” tunnels of ...

London’s Tube is the oldest ... under central London. Map of the Metropolitan Railway in 1865 (Image: TfL Corporate Archives) Just one year later, the Hammersmith & City Railway opened ...

London’s Tube ... Tube map as we know it to be produced in 1908. The map included the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway – now the Piccadilly line – which ran between ...

It’s the second oldest Tube service in London, but it took 125 years for the Hammersmith & City line to be shown on the modern Underground map ... long and has 29 stations, all of which are ...