Prime Minister William Gladstone opens the Metropolitan Railway, London mb-code MP_0119171 Inscribed in pencil 'Photog 334'

Inscribed in pencil 'Photog 334'

Leicester City manager Jimmy Bloomfield working hard on the exercise bike

cousin of the late Emperor Louis Napoleon

Farey delin' {John Farey junior (1791-1851)

Prime Minister William Gladstone opens the Metropolitan Railway, London mb-code MP_0119171 Inscribed in pencil 'Photog 334'Prime Minister William Gladstone opens the Metropolitan Railway, London, 1863 (1951). Engineered by John Fowler, the Metropolitan Railway was the first line of what would eventually become the London Underground. On January 10 1863, the railway operated its first service, which ran from Farringdon Street north to King's Cross, and west to Paddington (Bishop's Road), utilising trains hauled by steam engines. A print from 100 Years in Pictures, A