Mid to late 1800s

Chancellor of the Exchequer William Ewart Gladstone with directors and engineers of the Metropolitan Railway Company on an inspection tour of the world's first underground line in 1862

1900s

Two men stand before carriages used on the Central London Railway in 1905

1910s

The interior of a District Line Underground carriage around 1910

1920s

A Tube carriage in 1928 when the Piccadilly Tube Station was opened by Mayor of Westminster

1930s

A driver perches atop a new London Underground train at Acton Town station in 1936 (Image: KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

1940s

A London Underground train at Blackfriars Station taken during the 1940s

1950s

A new prototype 'silver' Tube train at Northfields station on the Piccadilly line in 1957

1960s

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