#OnThisDay 190 years ago, the London & Greenwich Railway's pre-opening trial ceased, resulting in closure of temporary stations at Blue Anchor Lane and Grand Surrey Canal. Woodcut from 09/01/1835 'The Penny Magazine' showing the viaduct passing St. James Church, Bermondsey.

#OnThisDay 33 years ago North Pole Eurostar depot was officially opened by Chair of British Rail Sir Bob Reid, 2 years before revenue services started. It closed just 13 years after that, but reopened in 2017 as a Hitachi Depot for GWR. Image: Colin Marsden buff.ly/8Sryq48

28 years ago today this strange boy joined London Underground as a Guard on a 6 month contract… we were assured we were a stop-gap until the 1959 Stock were retired, but they limped into the 21st century and I got to drive them too… time flies when you’re having fun! 🙂🚇

#OnThisDay 105 years ago at 20:32 a mail train carrying the remains of the Unknown Warrior arrived at Victoria platform 8. The roof of the carriage carrying the soldier's remains was painted white, so people en route could salute it. Image: MoorwaySouth buff.ly/a6rGQhb

#OnThisDay 175 years ago, Dalston Kingsland station opened as 'Kingsland'. It closed after just 15 years due to all NLR services diverting to Broad Street, but reopened in 1983 for a North Woolwich to Camden Road diesel service. 1984 image: Kevin Lane buff.ly/6fSXLTG

#OnThisDay 49 years ago York Road Curve connecting the East Coast Mainline and the 'City Widened Lines' towards Farringdon closed, when services were diverted over the Great Northern & City at Finsbury Park. Image from when Robin Morel (shadowy figure) very kindly gave me a tour.

#OnThisDay 76 years ago, Bow Road (GER) station closed, not to be confused with the Underground station of the same name or the adjacent Bow NLR station which it shared an interchange walkway with. Today the building is a William Hill. Images / more info: buff.ly/BoQWu1c

#OnThisDay 143 years ago the Bury & Tottington District Railway opened from Bury to Holcombe Brook. In 1913 this branch saw experiemental overhead 3.5kV DC electrification by the LYR, this only lasted 5 years, replaced by 3rd rail 1918. Image / more info: buff.ly/1EUwgnw

#OnThisDay 102 years ago the GWR opened West and North Acton stations as they owned the line. West Acton was rebuilt after just 17 years, you'd be forgiven for thinking designed by Charles Holden, in fact it was the GWR's architect Brian Lewis. Sunil060902 buff.ly/F6rKOeY

#OnThisDay 158 years ago Aberdeen station opened as 'Aberdeen Joint', replacing two separate termini at Waterloo and Guild Street. The impressive concourse dates from a rebuild 1913-1916, pictured here by Waldemar Zboralski buff.ly/Uh7vPDr

#OnThisDay 67 years ago West Wycombe station closed, its impending doom immortalised on the cover of Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury's 2007 book 'Along lost lines'. With thanks to Gerald Rivett, who happens to be the young spotter on the cover buff.ly/qLbX2NX

#OnThisDay 100 years ago the Met Line's Watford branch opened. It was intended to end on the High Street, optimistically seen in this 1925 poster. The current Moon Under Water pub was purchased for the station but the extension stalled leaving today's remote terminus. Poster: LT Museum collection

#OnThisDay 160 years ago the North London Railway opened its terminus at Broad Street and the line between there and Dalston Junction (including that station, and Shoreditch). Looking very run-down here in 1981, 5 years before closure: geoff7918 buff.ly/rCu6sBh

#OnThisDay 44 years ago Blake Hall was served for the last time. In rural Essex, at the point of closure it only had 17 daily passengers. The station remains closed despite the Epping-Ongar Railway reopening the route, as it is a private residence. Image: ee20213 buff.ly/ERTbLpQ

#OnThisDay 87 years ago Aldgate East moved... east. Fascinatingly the operational railway was suspended from the ceiling while the new station was built below it, the track being dropped into place overnight before opening. Look up, the hooks are still there! Image: LT Museum collection

#OnThisDay 30 years ago Canning Town station reopened on its current site following a 17 month closure of the line to North Woolwich due to Jubilee Line works. The DLR platforms were still over 2 years, and the Jubilee over 3 years, away from opening. Image: Roger Goodrum buff.ly/rDFJqDc

The railway network across Britain and Ireland is constantly evolving, so it's no surprise then that the Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland is now in its 16th edition. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/new...

#OnThisDay 62 years ago BR closed Horsted Keynes station which by then was the end of an electrified branch from Haywards Heath. This was not the end as the Bluebell Railway had already commenced services in 1962, one pictured here in 1964 (Ben Brooksbank buff.ly/xidodCx)

#OnThisDay 101 years ago, Burnt Oak station opened on the Northern Line two months after the rest of the Edgware extension. Before opening it was named 'Sheves Hill', and initially it carried the suffix (Watling). Another awesome @tubemapper.bsky.social image: buff.ly/AG1I51S

#OnThisDay Beaulieu Park station opened: the first new station on the Great Eastern main line for over 100 years. I have updated the 'Baker' Rail Atlas of GB & Ireland, the reprint of the 16th edition is available for preorder: buff.ly/sUsLsR6 @crecyrail.bsky.social

#OnThisDay 85 years ago the original 1898 Waterloo & City Line stock was withdrawn after 42 years service. 5 motor cars were double-ended, operating the off-peak service with a single car: one poses at Waterloo near to withdrawal (LT Museum collection) buff.ly/Q7dBx9n

#OnThisDay three years ago Bond Street Elizabeth Line station opened, five months after the rest of the line. Photo by Robert Camp buff.ly/sQHvcgM

#OnThisDay 8 years ago the new Abbey Wood station was opened in prepartion for the Elizabeth Line's opening (which transpired to be another 5 years away!). A typically brilliant capture of the new building by the wonderfully talented @tubemapper.bsky.social buff.ly/bpKPEGm

#OnThisDay 170 years ago the Wimbledon & Croydon Railway opened, partly using the 1802 Surrey Iron Railway route. A real railway backwater, this 1980 Jeremy Chapter image of Beddington Lane captures it beautifully; unrecognisable today as part of London Trams buff.ly/8yQWrsJ

#OnThisDay 85 years ago the West London Line lost passenger services closing Battersea, Chelsea & Fulham, West Brompton (pictured: John Alsop), Kensington Addison Road and Uxbridge Road. St Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubs station had been destroyed in an air raid 3rd October 🧵1/3

#OnThisDay 174 years ago, the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction (later North London) Railway opened an extension from Bow Junction to Poplar Dock, and goods traffic commenced on the EWIDBJR. June 1981 image of the 1851 Poplar Dock Yard: buff.ly/iXLAkzh

#OnThisDay 22 years ago the rear car of a northbound Northern Line train derailed and struck the tunnel wall at Camden Town. Fortunately being a Sunday morning, only 7 people were injured. The root cause pointed to a flaw in the point switchblade design. buff.ly/L3pAS5S

#OnThisDay 167 years ago Uckfield station opened, initially on a branch from Lewes. The line south of here closed in 1969 resulting in this inconvenience of a level crossing just north of the terminus, so the station was moved across the road in 1991. Andy: buff.ly/A9Jcboi

#OnThisDay 38 years ago Ripple Lane Depot hosted an open day revealing the new railfreight sector liveries, just a day after the Great Storm of 1987. A shuttle passenger service ran between here and Barking. A works-fresh coal sector 58050: V.Barnard buff.ly/Wt5dbtx

#OnThisDay 117 years ago Spalding station opened. Once a major junction with routes radiating across The Fens, now heavily rationalised. The annual flower parade resulted in significant extra traffic, this 1970s example plus more BR blue era shots here: buff.ly/qssfs2Z

#OnThisDay 115 years ago Sir Misha Black was born in Baku (now Azerbaijan) - Misha would later design amongst many other things the Victoria Line's 1967 Stock (LT Museum collection), British Rail's Classes 71 (Phil Scott) and 52 ('Westerns' - Roger Geach).

#OnThisDay 8 years ago, the first public run of the @GWR.com IEP (Intercity Express Programme) Hitachi Rail bimode Class 800 train arrived at Paddington from Bristol... notwithstanding a few teething problems en route. Image (2000): New Engine Desperado buff.ly/wEkU6Ol

#OnThisDay 58 years ago the new northbound Bank Branch Northern Line platform opened at Euston. This allowed the original northbound side of the 1907 island platform to be in-filled giving rise to today's wide southbound platform. Poster: @ltmuseum buff.ly/yY5xyIi

#OnThisDay 173 years ago King's Cross station was opened by the Great Northern Railway. Lewis Cubitt's magnificent pair of trainsheds were gradually hidden over the years before being unmasked in 2012 - a long overdue transformation. Image: Paul Wright buff.ly/kkuHsZu

#OnThisDay 141 years ago the Met Railway's short-lived terminus 'Tower of London' closed, replaced by Mark Lane next door... oddly both were open together for a week. 83 years later roles reversed; the original station reopened as Tower Hill, seen here in 1979 (John Atkinson)

#OnThisDay 17 years ago Wood Lane station opened on the Hammersmith & City Line. It is not to be confused with the nearby Central Line 'Wood Lane', closed 1947 (replaced by White City). The original's beautiful mosaic roundel lives on thanks to @mikeyashworth.bsky.social - Matthew S buff.ly/uEJVt5U

#OnThisDay 41 years agoat 18:04, a commuter train from Euston to Bletchley collided with a Freightliner service from Willesden to Holyhead near Wembley Central resulting in 3 deaths and 17 injuries. Brief Thames TV clip: buff.ly/a4DBr6E More info: buff.ly/uIK0Xg0

#OnThisDay 61 years ago, the District Line service to Hounslow West was withdrawn, leaving what would later become the line to Heathrow the sole preserve of the Piccadilly Line. Extract from 1958 Harry Beck Tube map:

#OnThisDay 120 years ago, Barons Court station opened on the District Line in advance of the Piccadilly Line opening a year later. This charming station designed by Harry Ford is in a typical Edwardian style, and is Grade II listed. Image: @tubemapper.bsky.social buff.ly/nZDpbn1

#OnThisDay 9 years ago I marked the first ever Jubilee Line 'Night Tube' service with a hastily-made laminated sign as Train 134 departed Stanmore at 00:24. We take it for granted now, but starting Night Tube on each line was a lengthy process and took a lot of planning.

#OnThisDay 176 years ago, the GWR opened a branch from Slough to Windsor, now Windsor & Eton Central. The magnificent building dates from a rebuild 1895-97, and sadly no longer sees trains as the branch was truncated to create a shopping centre. buff.ly/NiERYDP

#OnThisDay 147 years ago Palace Gates (Wood Green) station opened on a short extension from Noel Park. The least conveniently located of Ally Pally's three stations and competing with the Piccadilly Line, it only lasted 85 years. Image: Colour-Rail buff.ly/7hPD2T6

#OnThisDay 47 years ago Hannah Dadds qualified as a District Line driver, the first woman driver in the UK (predating Karen Harrison on the mainline by a year). When sister Edna became a Guard, they formed the first all-woman train crew. Image LT Museum Collection buff.ly/4P2MH59

#OnThisDay 61 years ago Belmont closed (in Middlesex, as opposed to the still-open one near Sutton). For the final 12 years after Stanmore Village closed, Belmont was a one-stop shuttle from Harrow & Wealdstone. Image of final day: Nick Catford buff.ly/izRXRo1

#OnThisDay 49 years ago at 08:05 the first InterCity 125 in regular service left Paddington station with a service to Bristol Temple Meads. 12 years ago, I was privileged to have a cab ride to Reading... hitting platforms at 100mph+ was unnerving for this ex-Tube driver!

#OnThisDay 42 years ago the sleepy peak hours weekdays only terminus at Coulsdon North closed, primarily due to the Brighton mainline resignalling. Images jon33040: buff.ly/QX2o6jI buff.ly/6KbqSNM Map extract London Railway Atlas @CrecyRail.bsky.social buff.ly/yjwJ0aN

#OnThisDay 143 years ago St Ann's Road station opened at the intersection of Seven Sisters Road and St Ann's Road, between today's Harringay Green Lanes and South Tottenham. Image: buff.ly/bUoSUJe Map: London Railway Atlas 6th edition @CrecyRail.bsky.social buff.ly/yjwJ0aN

#OnThisDay 165 years ago, London Victoria was opened by the Victoria Station & Pimlico Railway, a joint venture between several companies, replacing a temporary terminus on the south bank of the Thames named Pimlico. Image SWD Photographs flic.kr/p/2hXspbg

#OnThisDay 54 years ago at 18:04 the last 4DD double-decker train departed Charing Cross for Dartford. An ingenious way to increase capacity with restricted loading gauge, the two 1949-built units had 'interleaved' compartments. Michael Taylor / more info: buff.ly/DpLe2D3

Oopsie. I’ve done that thing again where I foraged for something geekily wonderful for a few quid and spent a fortune framing it 😬 A rather fabulous in-car diagram from 1977 showing the District & Circle and East London Lines, from the LT Museum Depot open day 🟢🟡🟣