Metropolitan Railway E Class 0-4-4T No.1 at the Epping Ongar Railway, 11th February 2018

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Metropolitan Railway A Class 4-4-0T No.23 at the London Transport Museum, 31st January 2025

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🚂 #OTD in #History 10 January 1863, the #MetropolitanRailway, the world's oldest underground #railway, opened between #Paddington and #Farringdon, marking the beginning of the #LondonUnderground.

Verney Junction looking east in the 1960s An eastward panorama from the footbridge at Verney Junction railway station showing wagons in the former Metropolitan Railway exchange sidings, the overgrown Met platform and an Oxford-bound ’bubble car’ Derby DMU approaching the down platform with its weed-strewn flower display.

Verney Junction looking east in the 1960s

An eastward panorama from the footbridge at Verney Junction railway station

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Portrait of Sir Edward W. Watkin (1819-1901) by Augustus Henry Fox.

Portrait of Sir Edward W. Watkin (1819-1901) by Augustus Henry Fox.

Edward Watkin was Chairman of both the Metropolitan Railway and the South Eastern Railway.

🎨 National Railway Museum

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#Class50 Alliance 50035 ‘Ark Royal’ & 50044 ‘Exeter’ plus TfL #MetropolitanRailway No.12 ‘Sarah Siddons' - Alstom Derby Litchurch Lane #Railway200 #GreatestGathering

Metropolitan Railway Paddington Underground Station, London. 1866-68 by Sir John Fowler, engineer; frontage rebuilt 1914 by Charles W. Clark. Photo: 03.03.2024. #London #Paddington #underground #station #RailwayStation #JohnFowler #CharlesClark #MetropolitanRailway

🚂 #OTD in #History 10 January 1863, the #MetropolitanRailway, the world's oldest underground #railway, opened between #Paddington and #Farringdon, marking the beginning of the #LondonUnderground.

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