The City and South London Railway was the first successful deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction. The railway was originally intended
Plaque on Monument to James Henry Greathead
A picture of a City and South London Railway train from The Illustrated London News, 1890
C&SLR locomotive number 13 at the London Transport Museum Depot in 2005
Kennington station, the only one of the original station buildings not replaced or substantially altered
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The Northern line is a London Underground line which runs between North London and South London. It is printed in black on the Tube map. It carries more passengers per year than any other Underground
City and South London Railway
…its merger with another of the Group's railways, the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, forming a single London Underground line called the Morden–Edgware line. In 1933, the London Passenger Transport Board was created by amalgamation of the C&SLR with the rest of the Underground Group, bus and other transport…
1995 Stock arrives at Stockwell tube station heading northbound to Edgware via Bank
The abandoned high-level platforms at Highgate station, intended for Northern City line trains
Southbound platform at Angel, the original northbound track having been filled in