THE LONDON UNDERGROUND CENTENARY was celebrated with a demonstration of railway equipment organised by London Transport at the Neasden depot. Veteran locomotives and rolling stock paraded, the passengers being members of the London Transport Musical and Dramatic Society in period costume. TOP: The oldest exhibit, Locomotive No. 23 (known as “The Old Girl”), sets off. The locomotive was built in 1866. and kept running until 1948, when it was retired to the Transport Museum at Clapham. BOTTOM: Members of the society re-enact the journey of Mr Gladstone and his guests when they inspected the original London Underground line between Paddington and Farringdon before it was opened in 1863.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30147, 3 June 1963, Page 3
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108THE LONDON UNDERGROUND CENTENARY was celebrated with a demonstration of railway equipment organised by London Transport at the Neasden depot. Veteran locomotives and rolling stock paraded, the passengers being members of the London Transport Musical and Dramatic Society in period costume. TOP: The oldest exhibit, Locomotive No. 23 (known as “The Old Girl”), sets off. The locomotive was built in 1866. and kept running until 1948, when it was retired to the Transport Museum at Clapham. BOTTOM: Members of the society re-enact the journey of Mr Gladstone and his guests when they inspected the original London Underground line between Paddington and Farringdon before it was opened in 1863. Press, Volume CII, Issue 30147, 3 June 1963, Page 3
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