History of the London Underground History of the London Underground The history of the London Underground began in the 19th century with the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. The Metropolitan Railway, which opened in 1863 using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, worked with the District Railway to complete London's Circle line in 1884. Both railways expanded, the Metropolitan eventually extending as far as in Buckinghamshire, more than from Baker Street and the centre of London. The first deep-level tube line, the City and South London Railway, opened in 1890 with electric trains. This was followed by the Waterloo
London Bridge station service in trains per hour (tph) is: The typical weekday off-peak services in trains per hour (tph) is: The Thameslink timetable through London Bridge was introduced in May 2018. The typical weekday off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is: The Underground station is served by the Jubilee line and the Bank branch of the Northern line. In , it was the station on the network with million users. It is the only station on the London Underground network with "London" in its name (while the NR termini are named, for instance, "London Waterloo" the Underground station is simply named