Mansion House tube station
Mansion House is a London Underground station in the City of London which takes its name from Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It opened in 1871 as the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan District Railway. Today, Mansion House is served by the Circle and District lines. It is between Blackfriars and Cannon Street stations and it is in fare zone 1. The station is located at the junction of Queen Victoria Street and Cannon Street.
Entrance on Queen Victoria Street
Mansion House station depicted in 1888
1955 view of entrance on Cannon Street
Mansion House station in 2019, showing the buffers still in place on platform 2, but with tracks removed.
The Metropolitan District Railway, also known as the District Railway, was a passenger railway that served London, England, from 1868 to 1933. Established in 1864 to complete an "inner circle" of lines connecting railway termini in London, the first part of the line opened using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. The Metropolitan Railway operated all services until the District Railway introduced its own trains in 1871. The railway was soon extended westwards through Earl's Court to Fulham, Richmond, Ealing and Hounslow. After completing the inner circle and reaching Whitechapel in 1884, it was extended to Upminster in Essex in 1902.
Part of a UERL poster from 1914 shows the underground District Railway Embankment station under the South Eastern and Chatham Railway's Charing Cross terminus
The jointly owned experimental passenger train that ran for six months in 1900
Originally built with four chimneys, Lots Road Power Station provided electricity for all of the UERL's lines
When Sudbury Town was rebuilt in July 1931 it was the prototype developing Holden's architectural style.