Underground Electric Railways Company of London Its early success resulted in a rush of proposals to Parliament for other deep-level routes under the capital, but by 1901 only two more lines had opened: the Waterloo & City Railway (W&CR) in 1898 and the Central London Railway (CLR) in 1900. Construction had started on one other line and then stopped following a financial crisis. The rest of the companies were struggling to raise funding. The District Railway (DR) was a sub-surface underground railway which had opened in 1868. Its steam-hauled services operated around the "Inner Circle" and on branches to Hounslow, Wimbledon, Richmond, Ealing, Whitechapel and New
Hornchurch and Upminster (UK Parliament constituency) Census. The seat, like the London borough, is the only one in London that extends beyond the M25 motorway. The seat was the proposal of the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies in 2008-9 and was after consultation accepted by Parliament. Hornchurch and Upminster is essentially an expansion of the old Upminster seat to include a chunk of the old Hornchurch seat – specifically Hornchurch itself. Most of the western wards of Hornchurch went to the new Dagenham and Rainham seat. The constituency of Hornchurch and Upminster is made up of eight electoral wards from the London Borough