The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world - here's a brief history of the route in four forgotten historic maps.

Opening five years after the first Tube services of the Metropolitan Railway, the line was built by the Metropolitan District Railway. The tunnels were made by digging a long trench, laying track and ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...

The solid red line shows the trolleybus routes and dotted red routes are the tram lines which ran mainly south of the River Thames. Click on the map to ... to Hanwell, west London,on June 15 ...

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be using maps to tell you the ... Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith in west London, and Moorgate in east London. A northern spur of the line was also soon up and ...

The District line has 60 stations and spans from Upminster in east London all the way to Ealing and Richmond in west London. But when it first opened in 1868, passengers could travel just five ...

The line was largely built on a viaduct across open fields in west London ... we’ll be using maps to tell you the story of each of London’s Tube lines. The images used in this story have ...