The London Underground dates back to 1863, with its first railway opening between Paddington and Farringdon on the Metropolitan Line. Much of its central network was completed in the first 50 ...

In 1933, the Metropolitan line was finally amalgamated with the other Tube lines to form the London Passenger Transport Board. It was not long after this that all services north of Aylesbury in ...

Two years later, the Underground Electric Railway Company of London was formed, bringing all lines apart from the Metropolitan Railway under one umbrella. This paved the way for the first London ...

London’s Tube is the oldest underground railway in the world, with the first trains travelling between Paddington and Farringdon in 1863. The Metropolitan line was the Underground’s first ...

The humble pocket map has become a tourist staple, but often it's unnoticed and unappreciated by the London local. An ...

Each Underground line has been reimagined as a different aspect of the city’s music scene, with the Jubilee line displaying London-made albums, the Metropolitan line showing independent record ...

The London Underground map has been redrawn in a “circles and spokes” design by a university lecturer who called the official map “garbage”. Maxwell Roberts, who posted a picture of his ...

Incredible map shows what London Underground could look like in 2050 with £66bn new line A plan made in 2015 to transform London's public transport shows how different the city could look by 2050.

The loop was called the Inner Circle in Parliamentary papers from the 1860s, as the Metropolitan and District Railways started to construct the capital’s first underground train lines.

Transport for London (TfL) will be shutting down the Circle, District, Hammersmith and City, Jubilee, and Metropolitan Lines on Saturday, November 11.