Images Dated 17th September 2019 (page 3)

Double tunnel near Farringdon Street Station, London
Double tunnel near Farringdon Street Station, Metropolitan underground railway, London. Date: 1860s

Dignitaries on Metropolitan underground railway, London
Dignitaries taking a ride on the first train of the Metropolitan underground railway, London. Date: 1863

Banquet at Metropolitan underground opening, London 1863
Banquet in Farringdon Street Station at the opening of the Metropolitan underground, London, on 9 January 1863. Date: 1863

Railway cutting works in progress in the early days of rail expansion. Date: 1840s

Portland Road Underground Station, London
Portland Road (now Great Portland Street) Underground Station, London, with street view above and underground section below. It opened in 1863. Holy Trinity Church is directly behind it. Date: 1865

Cartoon, Clapham Junction Station, SW London
Cartoon, Metropolitan Prize Puzzles No.6, underground passage at Clapham Junction Station, SW London - a passenger can t remember which stairs to take

Underground railway electrification, London -- one of the new electric trains. Date: circa 1904

London Underground, carriage interiors -- one of the original CLR coaches (top), and a remodelled CLR coach (bottom). Date: 1926

Advert, Travel Metro to Watford, Metro Extension Line, underground to overground. Date: 1926

London Underground railway, High Street Kensington
London Underground railway, aerial view of platforms, passengers and train at High Street Kensington. Date: 1894

Railway cutting works at Wormwood Scrubs, West London. Date: circa 1840s

London Underground railway, platform scene. Date: 1888

Sutton-in-Ashfield Town railway station, Nottinghamshire
Platform scene with passengers and footbridge at Sutton-in-Ashfield Town railway station, on the Leen Valley Extension Railway (GNR), Nottinghamshire, in the year that it opened. Date: 1898

Notting Hill Gate Underground Station, street view. Date: 1900s

Shepherds Bush Underground Station, platform scene. Date: 1900s

Willesden Green Underground Station, street view. Date: 1906

Hammersmith Underground Station, street view. Date: circa 1905

South Kensington Underground Station, street view. Date: 1907

Pier Head Station, Overhead Electric Railway, Liverpool
Scene outside Pier Head Station on the Overhead Electric Railway Line running through Liverpool Docks, in the year of the services opening. The line was seven miles long. Date: 1893

Underground railway, scenes from three stations, London -- Mansion House (District Line), Sloane Square (District Line), and the ticket office at Shepherds Bush (Central Line). Date: 1903

Underground railway, Bank Station, London 1903
Underground railway, Bank Station, London, showing passengers waiting for the lifts. Date: 1903

Extension of London Underground railway, 1906
Extension of the London Underground railway in 1906, showing the Booking Office at Piccadilly Station, the line running from Hammersmith in the west to Finsbury Park in the north

London Underground, double tunnel at Clerkenwell 1884
London Underground, double tunnel at Clerkenwell, with two steam trains passing through, one above the other. Date: 1884

Map of London Underground railway, 1906
Map of the London Underground railway in 1906, showing its expansion in all directions. Date: 1906

Underground railway electrification, London 1904
Underground railway electrification, Metropolitan Line, London -- showing the driver at his post, and passengers seated in a carriage. Date: 1904

Great floods in East Anglia 1912
Plight of Norwich, a view of the floods in Magdalen street. Date: August 1912

Underground railway construction, Kings Cross, London
Underground railway construction for the Metropolitan line, Kings Cross, London. Date: 1860

Underground railway, Waterloo and City Line opening London
Underground 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 1881
Underground 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

Railway passengers taking refreshments at York Station 1872
Railway passengers taking refreshments at York Station, with ten minutes to spare between trains. Date: 1872

Railway manufacture, celebration at Crewe Works 1876
Railway manufacture of locomotives, celebration at Crewe Works, Cheshire. Date: 1876

Railway construction, delivery of monster bar, Port Talbot
Railway construction, delivery of a monster bar, 62 feet 5 inches long, at Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, with a large crowd of celebrating spectators. Date: 1851

Railway construction, Baker Street, London 1868
Railway construction at Baker Street, London, at the junction of the St Johns Wood and Metropolitan railways. Date: 1868

Railway construction accident, Camden Town, London 1849
Railway construction accident at Camden Town, NW London, when some newly constructed arches collapsed on the western side of Kentish Town Road

Construction, Rose Hill cutting, Brighton & Lewes Railway
Construction work taking place on the Rose Hill cutting, Brighton & Lewes Railway. Date: 1846

Spalding railway station, Spalding, Lincolnshire. It opened in 1848 and was renamed Spalding Town railway station later the same year. Date: 1848

Great Northern Railway at Spalding, Lincolnshire
The Great Northern Railway at Spalding, Lincolnshire. Spalding station opened in 1848, and was renamed Spalding Town later the same year. Date: 1848

Wendon (Audley End) railway station, Wendon, Essex
Wendon railway station, Wendon (Wenden, or Wendens Ambo), Essex. It was opened in 1845 and three years later was renamed Audley End. Date: 1845

Swindon railway station, Swindon, Wiltshire, on the Great Western Railway. It opened in 1842 as Swindon Junction. Date: 1845

Thetford railway station, Thetford, Norfolk, seen here in the year it opened. Date: 1845

Rugeley railway station, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Scene outside Rugeley Trent Valley railway station, Rugeley, Staffordshire, on the Trent Valley line, seen here in the year it opened. Date: 1847

Dolly Sisters on front cover of the Sketch 1921
The Dolly Sisters photographed in their costumes for the new pantomime " The Babes in the Wood" by C B Cochran. The Dolly Sisters enjoyed immense success in London

Stoke-on-Trent railway station, Staffordshire 1849
Stoke-on-Trent railway station, Winton Square, Staffordshire, on the North Staffordshire Railway route. Built in Jacobean style, it opened in 1848. Date: 1849

Thrapston Bridge Street railway station, Northamptonshire
Thrapston Bridge Street railway station, Thrapston, Northamptonshire. It opened (as Thrapston Station) in 1845. Date: 1845

Playwright Clemence Dane 1921
Clemence Dane (1888 - 1865), famous female playwright. The Sketch comments particularly on her play " Will Shakespeare", at that time still running at the Shaftesbury

Peterborough East railway station, Peterborough 1845
A lively scene outside Peterborough East railway station, Station Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, seen here in the year it opened. Date: 1845

Miss Sylvia Storey, Countess Poulett
Countess Poulett, formerly stage star Miss Sylvia Storey, photographed after the announcement of her engagement to Major Percy Hansen

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