The Metropolitan line was the Underground’s first route ... but was soon extended to Moorgate, with plans for a further leg to Baker Street. Built by digging a long trench, laying track and ...

The disaster is considered to be the worst peacetime loss of life on the London Underground when a Northern City line train failed to stop at Moorgate Tube station and crashed into a dead end.

50 years ago 43 people were killed, and 74 injured, after a packed rush-hour tube train smashed into a dead-end tunnel at Moorgate station. It's an event that has both a personal and professional ...

For now, though – here’s a brief history of the entire London Underground told through ten maps. Opened in 1863, the initial Metropolitan Railway route ran between Paddington and Farringdon, but was ...