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Underground railway construction, Euston Road, LondonUnderground railway construction, earth-hoisting machine, drawn by horses, operating in Euston Road, London. 1861
Underground railway construction, Kings Cross, LondonUnderground railway construction for the Metropolitan line, Kings Cross, London. Date: 1860
Underground railway, Waterloo and City Line opening LondonUnderground railway, Waterloo and City Line opening, London. Starting from Waterloo, a driver working the motor, the entrance to one of the iron tunnels. Date: 1898
Underground railway construction, Lord Mayor of London 1881Underground railway construction, the Lord Mayor of London commencing works for the extension of the Inner Circle railway. Date: 1881
Underground railway, Aldgate Station interior, London. Date: 1876
Underground passage to the House of Commons 1908The underground passage from Westminster Station to the House of Commons, a section of which was privatised for MPs, usually used in bad weather but increasingly as a way of avoiding suffragettes
Thames Embankment Railway, construction 1870Works on the Thames Embankment Railway, from Waterloo Bridge, looking westward. Date: January 1870
Waiting room at Tower Hill underground station 1870The Tower Hill subway, waiting room and entry to the omnibus. Date: 1870
A Sohere suggestion for meeting increasing congestionIllustration suggesting the need for specially constructed motor-ways to help ease increasing traffic congestion in 1924. The drawing accompanies an article by R. P
First underground train, Edgware Road to Kings Cross, LondonFirst underground train, running from Edgware Road to Kings Cross, London. Building works on the Metropolitan Line began in 1853, and the first journey took place ten years later. Date: 1863
Metropolitan Underground Railway 1862Series of illustrations depicting the Metropolitan Underground Railway. 1862
Fossil brachiopods, ox-eye oreo and geological organsFossil brachiopods, Discinisca lamellosa 1, ox-eyed oreo, Oreosoma atlanticum 2, and underground geological organs at Saint Pierre 3. Orbicules, oreosome, orgues geologiques
Interior of a house in UnalaskaInterior of an underground Aleut house in Unalaska, with women caring for children and weaving straw goods. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient
Exterior of an Aleut house in Unalaska, early 19th centuryExterior of an underground Aleut house in Unalaska with children playing and men fishing in kayaks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient
Egyptian mummies and coffinsEgyptian mummies: mummy in coffin 1, coffin cover 2, bird urn 3, bird urn without cover 4, mummy of an embalmed ibis 5, and plan of underground chambers in a pyramid
Plan and entrance to the Labyrinth caves of CretePlan of the underground caves near Agioi-Deka, Gortyn, Crete, and entrance to the caves. Believed to be the site of the mythical Labyrinth by Charles Robert Cockerell
Interior of Holland Tunnel, New York City subway, USA. Date: 1937
Descending a coal mine at Wielliczka, Hungary. early 19th century
Aerial view of Kingsway, London (looking south), with the underground station on the left, and Bush House at the far end. Date: circa 1920s
Construction of underground railway King William Street 1888Driving the tunnels of the London and Southwark sub-railway passing under the River Thames. 1888
Underground railroad, Brooklyn Bridge Terminal, New YorkUnderground railroad and Brooklyn Bridge Terminal, New York, USA. Date: circa 1905
Kings Cross underground station 1868Junction of the Midland, Great Northern, and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross. Part of new work being carried out between Kings Cross and Farringdon Road in 1868. 1868
Metropolitan Extension under construction 1864Metropolitan Extension Railway under construction at Smithfield, London. 1864
Section of the Holborn Viaduct, showing the subways, taken by permission from Mr. Haywoods report. Date: 19th Century
Entrance to the Clerkenwell tunnel from Farringdon Street, London, on the Metropolitan line, Great Northern Railway. 1860s
Trial-trip on the Underground Railway 1862Dignitaries taking a ride on the first underground train on the Metropolitan Railway line, waving their hats in the air as they ride on a wooden steam locomotive between Paddington and Farrinton
Cutting sixty miles of tunnel in ParisCross-section of plans for the tunnel extension to the Paris Metro under the Paris Opera House 1903
Building a boat to go beneath a streetPurpose-built boat -shaped caisson which will be lowered into the hole made for the extension of the Paris Metro under the River Seine 1906
New tunnel under the Seine 1905Night staff work on the new tunnel extension under the River Seine. Date: 1905
Metropolitan railway and Fleet Ditch 1862Engraving from the foot of Frederick Street, Grays Inn Road, at its junction with Bagnigge Wells Road. of a portion of the works in progress for this vast undertaking. 1862
General Strike - volunteer driving electric tube trainThe General Strike - a volunteer driving an electric tube train on the Metropolitan underground railway. 1926
Map, Metropolitan Underground Railway, serving Aldgate, City, Kew Gardens, Richmond and other London locations. 1880
Opening of Chicago Subway for Freight Traffic, 7 July 1905. 1905
Three divisions of the shield of the Thames Tunnel 1825Section of the three divisions of the shield of the Thames Tunnel in 1825, using Marc Isambard Brunels and Thomas Cochranes newly invented tunnelling shield technology. Date: 1825
Longitudinal section of Thames Tunnel 1825First of the construction took part in 1825, hundred and fifty feet under the River Thames. Date: 1825
Cemetery of a Capuchin convert, near PalermoCatacombs in Palermo, Sicily consists of a large subterranean space, clean and airy, divided into galleries, surrounded with nichies after the bodies were dehydrated on the racks of ceramic pipes in
Work at a coal mine 1878Work at a coal mine, low travelling and holding the bottom coal. Date: 1878
Miners at Schemnitz, SlovakiaMiners at Schemnitz (Banska Stiavnica), Slovakia. 1832
Golders Green tube station, NW London, and an earlier view from 1904. Date: circa 1920s
Southampton Row with underground tramway, London. circa 1910s
Solidarity campaign: barbed wire hammer & sicklePolish Solidarity Campaign pamphlet cover illustration: Solidarity underground : free trade unionism in Poland today by Magda Zalewska, Henryk Gawinski, John Taylor, 1983 Date: 1983
In a Kimberley Diamond Mine by John H F BaconIn a Kimberley Diamond Mine (Northern Cape, South Africa), by John Henry Frederick Bacon. circa late 19th century
Excavating tube railway 1903Under construction, workers in the shield, Great Northern and City Railway. 1903
Poster, For comforts sake stagger office hours, WW2Wartime poster, For comforts sake stagger office hours -- how to avoid congestion on the London Underground. Designed by Misha Black and David Langdon. 1942
Underground train - new station indicator 1896New station indicator on a underground train in London, after the train leaves the station a bell rang and the name of the next station appeared. 1896
Kings Cross underground station, London 1868Junction of the Midland, Great Northern, and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross. Part of new work being carried out between Kings Cross and Farringdon Road in 1868. 1868
Chadwell Spring, near Ware, Hertfordshire, England, one of the sources of the New River. Opened in 1608, sourced from an underground river, some 629 feet below ground level. Date: 1930s
During the cold winter of February 1855, people were skating underground, between Regents Park end of the tunnel through which the canal runs under Aberdeen-place and maida Hill