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The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...

Timeline of Events

1863

1.10.1863

The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.

1890

11.4.1890

City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.

1906

12.15.1906

The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

1907

6.22.1907

The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.

1987

11.18.1987

King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.

1994

9.30.1994

Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.