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. Exploring 20th Century London, Padded Cell carriage". Archived from the original on 30 September 2011 . Retrieved 20 September 2007. Runaway of an engineering train from Highgate 13 August 2010 (Technical report). RAIB. 2011. 09-2011. Wolmar, Christian (2005) [2004]. The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever. Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-023-1.

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. Work continued on the rest of the northern extension. The City and South London Railway Act, 1900, approved on 25 May 1900, gave permission to enlarge the station tunnel at Angel to a diameter of 30 ft and the rest of the extension opened on 17 November 1901, with stations at: Old Street, City Road (closed 1922) and Angel.

London Underground takes over the Waterloo & City line and responsibility for the stations on the Wimbledon branch of the District line from Putney Bridge to Wimbledon Park Given the small dimension of the tunnels, steam power, as used on London's other underground railways, was not feasible for a deep tube railway. Like Greathead's earlier Tower Subway, the CL&SS was intended to be operated by cable haulage with a static engine pulling the cable through the tunnels at a steady speed. [12] Section 5 of the 1884 Act specified that: Runaway train on London Tube's Northern Line". BBC News. 13 August 2010 . Retrieved 18 August 2010. Tunnelling work at the project to modernise and expand Bank Underground station finishes, marking a major milestone in the project

an extension of time for the 1893 Act and changes to the construction of Bank station. [35] Approved as the City and South London Railway Act, 1896 on 14 August 1896. [36] Like Greathead's earlier Tower Subway, the CL&SS was originally intended to be operated by cable haulage with a static engine pulling the cable through the tunnels at a steady speed. Section 5 of the 1884 Act specified that: "The traffic of the subway shall be worked by ... the system of the Patent Cable Tramway Corporation Limited or by such means other than steam locomotives as the Board of Trade may from time to time approve It was reasoned that there was nothing to look at in the tunnels so the only windows were in a narrow band high up in the carriage sides.The railway was opened officially by Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) on 4 November 1890. [22] It was opened to the public on 18 December 1890. [16] Initially, it had stations at: By having a virtual monopoly of bus services, the LGOC was able to make large profits and pay dividends far higher than the underground railways ever had. In 1911, the year before its take-over by the Underground Group, the dividend had been 18 per cent Wolmar 2004, p. 204.