The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world - here's a brief history of the route in four forgotten historic maps.

Map of the Central line in 1912 (Image: TfL Corporate Archives) Two years later, the Underground Electric Railway Company of ...

Soviet map of central London, circa 1985 ... Here's a section of the London Tube map, which contains a number of errors, including transposed stations, misspelled names and non-existent sections ...

As the Tube network has evolved, so has the map by which Underground passengers ... the line made use of steam trains to carry passengers under central London. Just one year later, the Hammersmith ...

Despite the city's tremendous size, London's main attractions are concentrated in central London or along ... via the St. Paul's and Mansion House tube stops. The City, which is centrally located ...

London’s Tube is the oldest underground railway in the world ... the line made use of steam trains to carry passengers under central London. Map of the Metropolitan Railway in 1865 (Image: TfL ...