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Fifty Years of the Hampstead Tube London Transport 1957
Fifty Years of the Hampstead Tube London Transport 1957
Soft Cover
28 pages Stapled
Copyright 1957
CONTENTS
Fifty Years of the Hampstead Tube
The First Step
Deep Level Developments
Charing Cross to Hampstead
American Support
Survey by Cab
Golders Green to WatfordWork in Hand
Problem of Charing Cross
Good Progress
Yerkes Plans Completed
A Ghost Station
Work Above Ground
The Permanent Way
Rolling Stock
Signalling
The London Passenger Traffic Conference
Three Into One
Albert Stanley
Post-War Etensions
Linking Up
Extensions to the South
London Transport and the Northern Line
A New Assessment
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George; Lord Ashfield Golders Green in 1904 and 1957 between pages 6 and 7
Golders Green Yard and Highgate Station in 1907 Car interiors 1920 and today between pages 10 and 11
The Edgware Extension 1922
The Growth of Edgware between pages 18 and 19
The Signal Cabin at Camden Town in 1907 and 1957
Warren Street Station, then and now between pages 22 and 23
FOREWORD BY THE CHAIRMAN OF LONDON TRANSPORT
WHEN the Hampstead Tube was opened fifty years ago it was proclaimed as `the last link' in London's underground railway system. At the time, that was a reasonable thing to say; and Mr Lee shows in this book how wise as well as venturesome our predecessors were in their planning. The three new tubes of 1906 and 1907 took the strain of London's travel requirements, and with the extensions that were made in the years between the wars they did all, and more than all, that their promoters had hoped. We have good reason to be grateful for the pioneering risks that they accepted.
The audacities of one generation become the necessities of the next. We face a situation today which is in many ways similar to that which confronted London during the Edwardian decade. A new tube link across the heart of London-the Victoria Line-needs to be built. It is vital for the life of the capital city that more traffic should be taken off the streets. We shall have to find ways and means of building the Victoria Line. It will be a big undertaking, but the story recounted in the following pages is an example to encourage us.
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