Mapping The History Of The Underground

The world's outset secret railway describe of piece of job opened inwards London inwards 1863. The Metropolitan Railway ran from Paddington to Farringdon Street. The describe of piece of job was a huge success (it carried 38,0000 passengers on its outset day) together with it wasn't long earlier the describe of piece of job was extended together with novel lines were built.

To this solar daytime the London Underground continues to grow. Last calendar month tunneling began to extend the Northern Line from Kennington to Battersea. This extension to the Northern Line should opened upwardly inwards 2020.

If yous are interested inwards visualizing how the London Underground has grown since1863 together with then yous tin forcefulness out role the novel Citylines interactive map. Citylines is busy mapping the history of the world's carry networks together with provides mapped visualizations of the increase of metropolis transit networks over time.

Click on a transit describe of piece of job or station on a city's transit map on Citylines together with yous tin forcefulness out thought details on when it was constructed together with added to the city's shipping network. If yous role the fourth dimension slider inwards the map sidebar yous tin forcefulness out thought the extent of the city's transit network for whatever twelvemonth inwards its history. In other words yous tin forcefulness out role the fourth dimension slider to thought how the city's transit network has grown over time.