Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway

The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CE&HR) was a deep-level underground tube railway in London. Construction of the railway was delayed for more than a decade while funding was sought. When opened in 1907, the line served 16 stations and ran for 7. 67 miles in a pair of tunnels. In the 1920s the route was connected to the City and South London Railway, and services on the two lines were merged into a single London Underground line, eventually called the Northern line. In 1933 the CCE &HR and the rest of the UERL were taken into public ownership.

About Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway in brief

The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CE&HR) was a deep-level underground tube railway in London. Construction of the railway was delayed for more than a decade while funding was sought. When opened in 1907, the line served 16 stations and ran for 7. 67 miles in a pair of tunnels. In the 1920s the route was connected to the City and South London Railway, and services on the two lines were merged into a single London Underground line, eventually called the Northern line. In 1933 the CCE &HR and the rest of the UERL were taken into public ownership. Today, the C CE&HR’s tunnels and stations form the CharingCross branch from Kennington to Camden Town, the Edgware branch from Camden Town to Edg ware, and the High Barnet branch from Archway to Golders Green. The HStP&CCR opened in November 1890 and had seen large passenger numbers in its first year of operation. In November 1891, a private bill was presented to Parliament for the construction of the Hampstead, St Pancras & Champing Cross Railway. The railway was planned to run entirely underground from Heath Street in Hampstead to Strand in Charingcross. Although the company had permission to construct the railway, it still had to raise the capital for construction works. Only the London and South Western Railway was able to raise its capital for the railway and was backed by a dividend from its parent company, the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway.

The company was not alone; four other tube railway companies were looking for investors – Baker Street, the Great City & City Railway and the Central London and Northern Railway and Central London & Great City Railway. In 1891 a Joint Select Committee was established to review the proposals. The committee took evidence on various matters regarding the construction and operation of deep-tube railways, and made recommendations on the diameter of tube tunnels, method of traction, and the granting of wayleaves. After the committee’s report was published in 1892, the bill was approved and given a royal assent on August 24, 1893. The bill received a change of the name, the Chared Cross, Hampstead and Eust on 24 August 1893, and assent was assent to the Act of 1893, Act 24 of 1893. It was then known as the Charsing Cross, Hampstead and Euston Railway (CCE&HR). The line was later renamed the H Hampstead Travelling Railway (HST&T) in 1894. The CCE&T was the first of the London Underground lines to be named after a town in the South East of England, and opened in 1896. It is now one of the busiest lines in the UK, serving more than 20,000 passengers a day. The line is now part of the West End and the East End of London, and is part of London’s Underground system.

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