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

🚂 #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.

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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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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Verney Junction looking east in the 1960s

An eastward panorama from the footbridge at Verney Junction railway station

🎨 Wiki Commons/Lamberhurst

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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.

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

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