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Metropolitan Extensions: Herne Hill to the Metropolitan Railway (London, Chatham and Dover Railway)

Dates

02/03/1874	Metropolitan Extensions: Herne Hill to the Metropolitan Railway (London, Chatham and Dover Railway) Holborn Viaduct opened.
/07/1925	Metropolitan Extensions: Herne Hill to the Metropolitan Railway (London, Chatham and Dover Railway) Holborn Viaduct line electrified.
26/01/1990	Metropolitan Extensions: Herne Hill to the Metropolitan Railway (London, Chatham and Dover Railway) Holborn Viaduct closed.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

Blackfriars [1st] to Herne Hill

319009, with a Thameslink service to Sutton in Surrey, arriving at Elephant & Castle on 19th October 2013. ...
David Bosher 19/10/2013

LU 1972 stock, now the oldest trains on the Underground having finally achieved their 50 years of service, waiting to depart for Queen's Park from the ...
David Bosher 14/01/2022

700043 to London Blackfriars departing from its penultimate stop at Elephant & Castle on 24th September 2020. ...
David Bosher 24/09/2020

The entrance to the National Rail station at Elephant & Castle, from the shopping centre, on 24th September 2020. This was the final day of the ...
David Bosher 24/09/2020

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Walworth Road

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The site of Walworth Road, just south of Elephant & Castle, seen from a Thameslink service to Sutton, on 15th May 2021. This station opened as ...
David Bosher 15/05/2021

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Camberwell

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The remains of Camberwell station, seen from a Thameslink service to Sutton, on 15th May 2021. This was opened by the LC&DR in 1862, but passenger ...
David Bosher 15/05/2021

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Loughborough Junction

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319366, with a Thameslink service from and back to St. Albans City, now on the southbound part of its journey via Wimbledon and Sutton and returning ...
David Bosher 19/10/2013

Loughborough Junction, which gave its name to the surrounding south London district, looking north on 19th October 2013. It is on the LCDR City ...
David Bosher 19/10/2013

View from the surviving island platform at Loughborough Junction, towards the disused platforms on the Cambria Road spur to the South London Line, ...
David Bosher 10/12/2022

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Herne Hill to Tulse Hill

Farringdon Extension

City Thameslink

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700141 with Thameslink train to Horsham at City Thameslink, looking back north, on 15th May 2021. This station is built in the Snow Hill tunnel that ...
David Bosher 15/05/2021

City Thameslink in landscape format see image 35100. No shortage of steel in these parts. ...
Ken Strachan 09/11/2012

A well-named station - it's hardly in rolling countryside. Very convenient for the surrounding offices - so long as your local booking office sold you ...
Ken Strachan 10/06/2011

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Blackfriars

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Thameslink 700152 calls at Blackfriars with the 0944 from Brighton to Cambridge on 26 January 2023.
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Bill Roberton 26/01/2023

The 2012 south side entrance to London Blackfriars, seen on 11th May 2021. This station was opened by the LCDR on 10th May 1886 as St. Pauls. The ...
David Bosher 11/05/2021

319436 to Bedford calling at the rebuilt London Blackfriars station, on 28th November 2012. Until 1937, the original station was known as St. Paul's. ...
David Bosher 28/11/2012

The through Thameslink platforms at Blackfriars looking north towards Snow Hill Tunnel and the Metropolitan Widened Lines in July 2005 with a Bedford ...
John Furnevel 23/07/2005

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Holborn Extension

Holborn Viaduct

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Near the end. Holborn Viaduct (1874 - 1990) bathed in winter sunshine. Photographed in December 1989, a month before final closure. See image ...
Ian Dinmore 12/12/1989

Last days at Holborn Viaduct, with 4EPB and 2HAP units standing at the buffer stops in December 1989. The station finally closed at the end of January ...
Ian Dinmore 12/12/1989

Last days at Holborn Viaduct, December 1989. ...
Ian Dinmore 12/12/1989

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Blackfriars

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Thameslink 700152 calls at Blackfriars with the 0944 from Brighton to Cambridge on 26 January 2023.
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Bill Roberton 26/01/2023

The 2012 south side entrance to London Blackfriars, seen on 11th May 2021. This station was opened by the LCDR on 10th May 1886 as St. Pauls. The ...
David Bosher 11/05/2021

319436 to Bedford calling at the rebuilt London Blackfriars station, on 28th November 2012. Until 1937, the original station was known as St. Paul's. ...
David Bosher 28/11/2012

The through Thameslink platforms at Blackfriars looking north towards Snow Hill Tunnel and the Metropolitan Widened Lines in July 2005 with a Bedford ...
John Furnevel 23/07/2005

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Blackfriars Bridge

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A 2-car unit Class 416 (2-EPB) on Blackfriars Bridge pre-Thameslink Upgrade (formerly Thameslink 2000) leaving Blackfriars Station in summer 1995. ...
Charlie Niven //1995

The rebuilt London Blackfriars station, unveiled in February 2012, spans both sides of the river Thames and is seen here looking north across the ...
David Bosher 11/05/2021

The magnificent crest of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway on Blackfriars Bridge, London, in the summer of 2009. ...
Alistair MacKenzie 23/08/2009

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Blackfriars Junction

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Metropolitan Extensions: Herne Hill to the Metropolitan Railway (London, Chatham and Dover Railway)

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Portions of line and locations

Blackfriars [1st] to Herne Hill

Blackfriars [1st]

Blackfriars Junction

Borough Road

Elephant and Castle [1st]

Elephant and Castle

Walworth Road

Camberwell

Loughborough Junction

Herne Hill to Tulse Hill

Farringdon Extension

City Thameslink

Blackfriars

Holborn Extension

Holborn Viaduct

Blackfriars

Blackfriars Bridge

Blackfriars Junction

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