Birthplace of the Underground
Paddington, London
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Paddington Station, Paddington, London W2 1RH
Tube:
- Paddington Tube Station (<0.1 km)
- Lancaster Gate Tube Station (0.4 km)
Nearby stations:
- Paddington Station (<0.1 km)
- Paddington Railway Station (0.3 km)
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We take the underground (Tube) network for granted but of course there was a time it wasn’t there. Soon to be extended yet again..this is where it began. Paddington Station could be called the birthplace of the London Underground.
Paddington station was one of the great rail portals into London, receiving the trains that ran on Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway (GWR), from Cardiff and other towns to the west of London.
It was therefore a natural birth place for the London Underground railway. The first section of the Underground was opened on 10th January 1863, running from Paddington eastward to Farringdon.
In the following year, this was extended toward the south-west, beyond Paddington through Westbourne Park to Hammersmith (opening 13th June 1864), and a new branch built southwards to Kensington (opening 1st July 1984). By 1868, a second branch took it up north-west in the direction of Wembley as far as Swiss Cottage (opening 13th April 1868), and a third branch went south to South Kensington (opening 24th December 1868)....and the rest they say is history.
I understand the next new station witll be Battersea Power Station.
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A female railway anorak, AKA 'gricer’? :-) Have you checked out the London Transport museum in Covent Garden? It’s brilliant.
My ex art tutor, and my vice chair when I was museum chair, write railway books (Alf Ludlam) so I took an interest. I hope I am not an anorak :0))) just an historian.
Have you ever been on the Glasgow Subway, it is handy but like a toy compared to the London system.