Underground, Overground (37 page)

The author and publisher would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce the illustrations: © akg-images, p. 227; © Bloomberg via Getty Images, p. 278; © Bob Krist/CORBIS, p. 248; © David Secombe, p. 107; © Getty Images, p. 53; © Johnny Stiletto, p. 262; © TfL from the London Transport Museum, pp. 7, 8, 32, 74, 96, 140, 164, 185, 218.

Peter Ackroyd,
London: The Biography
(2000)

T. C. Barker and M. Robbins,
A History of London Transport: Passenger Travel and the Development of the Metropolis
, vols 1 and 2 (1974)

Jeremy Black,
London: A History
(2009)

Michael Freeman,
Railways and the Victorian Imagination
(1999)

Ken Garland,
Mr Beck's Underground Map: A History
(1994)

Oliver Green,
Underground Art: London Transport Posters 1908 to the Present
(2001)

Stephen Halliday,
Underground to Everywhere: London's Underground Railway in the Life of the Capital
(2004)

Alan A. Jackson and Desmond F. Croome,
Rails through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways
(1962; 2nd edn 1993)

Simon Jenkins,
Landlords to London: The Story of a Capital and Its Growth
(1975)

David Leboff,
London Underground Stations
(1994)

John Scott-Morgan,
Red Panniers: Last Steam on the Underground
(2010)

David Welsh,
Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf
(2009)

Christian Wolmar,
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built, and How It Changed the City Forever
(2004)

John Betjeman,
Metroland
(1973)

55 Broadway
188
–9,
269

1938 stock
211
–12,
269
,
270
,
279

1959 stock
211
,
269

1995 stock
211

A

Abbey Road
268

Abbey Wood
274

Ackroyd, Peter
21
,
29
–30,
106

Acton Town
182

Adlington, Mark
269

advertising
40
–1,
117
,
143
,
279
–80

posters
161
–5

air-raid shelters
105
,
224
–33

Aldersgate
33

see also
Barbican

Aldersgate Street
52

Aldgate
57
,
66
,
73
,
91
,
134
,
201

Aldwych (station)
151
,
152
–4

Aldwych (street)
150

Aldwych Shuttle
150
–4

Alexander I
87

Alexandra Palace
122
,
206

aluminium
212

Amersham
76
,
77
,
268

Anderson, Sir John
224

Archway
xii
,
133
,
144
,
175
,
181
,
205

Archway Road
243

armrests
114
,
117

Arnos Grove
183
,
184
,
186
,
189

Arsenal
117

Artangel
153

Arts on the Underground
163

Ashfield, Lord
155
,
167
,
177
,
178
,
188
,
207
,
234

London Transport
193

roundel
159

Underground Group
155
–8,
191
,
192

Ashworth, Mike
212
–13,
255
–6

Auerbach, Frank
264

Automatic Train Operation
115

Aylesbury
72

Aylesbury & Buckingham Railway
72

B

Baker, Joan
202
–3

Baker Street

Bakerloo Line
38
,
143

bar
39

Betjeman
172

Jubilee Line
38
,
240
,
247

Metropolitan Line
5
,
8
,
36
–7,
38
,
72
,
168
,
173

Baker Street & Waterloo Railway
130
,
131
,
143
–4,
157
–8

Bakerloo Line
126
,
130
,
143
–4,
157
–8

armrests
114

baby's birth
156

Baker Street
38

colour
199

and Crossrail
275

doors
103

Edgware Road
69

extension
147
–8,
167
–8

floodgates
31

Marylebone
75

Stanmore branch
173
,
174
,
240
,
247

stations
6
,
146
–7

trains
147
,
211

tunnelling
131

Waterloo
220
,
221

Balham
229

Bank

Central Line
116

‘Mind the Gap' announcement
116
,
220
,
221

Northern Line
105
,
179
,
181

St Mary Woolnoth
106
,
108

Second World War
229

Waterloo & City Railway
105
,
109
–12

Bank Holiday Act 1871
60

Barbican (estate)
243

Barbican (station)
33
,
52

Barker, T. C.
20
–1,
85
,
101
,
127
,
128
,
132

Barlow, Peter William
95

Barlow, William Henry
95

Barman, Christian
157
,
160
–1,
179
,
186
,
213

Barnes, Julian
72
,
259

Barnett, Henrietta
176

Baron's Court
60

bars
39
,
40

Battersea
274

Battersea Power Station
141

Bayswater
36
,
57
,
114

see also
Queensway

Bayswater, Paddington & Holborn Bridge Railway
26

Beaumont, Maureen
196

Beck, Harry
66
,
199
–203,
270

Behave Yourself
(Roberts)
214
–15

Bell, John
44

Belsize Park
220
,
230

Bendy Bus
242

Bennett, Arnold
xi
,
30
,
80
–1,
166
,
172
,
280

Berger, John
153
–4

Bethnal Green
229
–30,
255

Betjeman, John
267

Aldersgate station
33

Central Line
119

City & South London
104

commuters
167

District Line
59

Epping-Ongar line
209

Marylebone station
75
,
78

Metroland
169
,
170
–2,
174

South Kentish Town
264

Betjeman
(Wilson)
170

Betjeman Country
(Delaney)
172
–3

Beyer, Peacock & Co.
42

Big Tube
105
,
120
–5,
130
,
158
,
159
,
182
,
191
,
206

Birmingham, Peggy and Jack
232

Bishop's Road
37

Bishopsgate
57

see also
Liverpool Street

Black, Jeremy
166

Black, Misha
270

Blackfriars
61
,
111

Blackpool
84

Blair, Tony
249
,
251
,
252
,
259

Blake, Neil
268

Blake Hall
209

Blakemore Hotel
58

Bleeding London
(Nicholson)
165

Blomfield, Arthur
54
–5

Boat Race
60
,
80

bombs

air-raid shelters
224
–33

Edgware Road
69

Bond Street
117
,
274

Borough
104

Boston Manor
189

Bradley, Simon
55

Bramwell MD
153

Brent Cross
178

bridges
52
,
54
,
55
,
60
,
80
,
81

Briggs, Thomas
16
–17

Brighton
84

British Gas
249

British Museum
152
,
263

British Rail
76
,
113
,
123

British Railways
234

British Transport Commission
233
–4,
239

Brittain, Vera
232
–3

Bromley
244

Bromley-by-Bow
59
,
244

Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway
150

see also
Great Northern Piccadilly and Brompton Railway

Brompton Road
183

Brown, Mike
277

Bruce-Partington Plans, The
(Conan Doyle)
63

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
42
,
86
,
88
,
89

Brunel, Marc
86
–90,
95

Buchanan Report
242
–3

Buckhurst Hill
208

Buckingham Palace
261

Buffalo Bill's British Wild West
(Gallop)
60

Bull & Bush
144
,
176

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
97

Burnt Oak
178

Bus We Loved, The
(Elborough)
17
–18,
157

buses

East London Line
92

Gladstone
34

horse-drawn
20
–1,
84
–5

Livingstone
252

London Transport
192

petrol-driven
148
,
149

Pick
223

Routemaster
242

Shillibeer
18
–20,
102

UERL
158
,
191

Bushey Heath
206

C

cable railways
94
,
99

Calson Old Face
161

Camden
146
,
175
,
177
,
178
,
274

Camden Town
144
,
230
,
274

Canada Water
93
,
250

Canary Wharf (complex)
249
,
251

Canary Wharf (station)
250
,
251

Canning Town
250

Cannon Street
48

car ownership
240

carriages

1938 stock
211

Big Tube
122

Central Line
114
,
116
,
117

City & South London Railway
99
,
102
–3,
104

Metropolitan Railway
38
,
51
,
77
–8

Waterloo & City Railway
112

Yerkes Tubes
147

see also
seats

Carvel, John
241

Cassel, Sir Ernest
115
–16

Castle, Barbara
239

Castling, Harry
82

celebrities
259

Central Line
4
,
9
,
113
–20

Bank
105
,
106
,
220
,
221

colour
199

and Crossrail
275

Epping
76

Epping-Ongar
201
,
208
–10

Holborn
263

on map
204

New Works programme
205
,
207
–8,
233

postcards
117

smell
119

stations
116
–17,
207
–8

Stratford
250

train frequency
115
,
118

trains
114
–15,
137
,
147
,
211

Tube Upgrade
255
–6

and Waterloo & City Line
113

Central London Railway
101
,
113
,
114
,
115
–19,
133
,
157
–8,
159

Chalfont & Latimer
76
,
77

Chalk Farm
146
,
220

Chambers, Ajit
263

Chancery Lane
115
,
116
,
230

Channel tunnel
75

Chapman, Herbert
117

Charing Cross
48
,
144
,
152
,
217