On 13 October 2005 the Northern line service was suspended due to maintenance problems with the emergency braking system on the entire train fleet. [27] A series of rail replacement buses was used to connect outlying stations with other Underground lines. [28] Full service was restored on 18 October. London successfully hosts the first Public Transport Olympic Games. Reliability across the Tube averages no lower than 97% during the Games and Paralympics period. More than 3,500 office-based colleagues become TfL Ambassadors and join frontline staff to help customers move around the network

Deep under the City of London lies the oldest disused tube station in London, and one that’s currently a hive of activity. In an effort to improve their collective situations, most of the underground railways in London; the C&SLR, the CLR, the Great Northern and City Railway and the Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited (UERL, which operated the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR), the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR), the CCE&HR and the MDR) began, from 1907, to introduce fare agreements. Most of the C&SLR's six original station buildings were rebuilt or modified during the improvements to the line in the 1920s or during more recent modernisations. Only the building at Kennington retains its original exterior and the dome over the lift shaft, a feature of all the original stations.Work continued on the rest of the northern extension. The City and South London Railway Act, 1900, approved on 25 May 1900, gave permission to enlarge the station tunnel at Angel to a diameter of 30 ft and the rest of the extension opened on 17 November 1901, with stations at: Old Street, City Road (closed 1922) and Angel. thanks for having given me an opportunity of being present to inaugurate a work which I have but little doubt will be of the greatest use to the community, and which will especially be a great boon to this great metropolis. It must be a matter of deep thought to all of us, the ever-increasing growth of this city, and the consequent increasing difficulties of the means of access. In addition to the London Underground, suburban trains, owned by several companies, serve the city from end to end through the centre. Twelve urban trains form one of London's public transport systems: DLR, Crossrail, South West Train, C2C, First Great Western, Chiltern Railways, Abelio Greater Anglia, Southeastern Railway and Heathrow Connect. The commuter trains consist of 52 lines including 1325 stations forming a network of more than 4300 km. Underground Journeys: South Wimbledon". www.architecture.com. Royal Institute of British Architects. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011 . Retrieved 20 February 2011.

London Underground takes over the Waterloo & City line and responsibility for the stations on the Wimbledon branch of the District line from Putney Bridge to Wimbledon Park In an effort to improve their collective situations, most of the underground railways in London: the C&SLR, the CLR, the Great Northern & City Railway and the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL, which operated the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR), the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (GNP&BR), the CCE&HR and the MDR) began, from 1907, to introduce fare agreements. From 1908, they began to present themselves through common branding as the Underground. [57] The Waterloo & City Railway, operated by the main-line London and South Western Railway, was the only tube railway that did not participate in the arrangement.

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In an effort to protect the Group's income, its Managing Director/Chairman, Lord Ashfield, lobbied the government for regulation of transport services in the London area. During the 1920s, a series of legislative initiatives was made in this direction, with Ashfield and Labour London County Councillor (later MP) Herbert Morrison, at the forefront of debates as to the level of regulation and public control under which transport services should be brought. Ashfield aimed for regulation that would give the existing Group protection from competition and allow it to take substantive control of the LCC's tram system; Morrison preferred full public ownership. [76] Eventually, after several years of false starts, a bill was announced at the end of 1930 for the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board, a public corporation that would take control of the Underground Group, the Metropolitan Railway as well as all buses and trams within an area designated as the London Passenger Transport Area. [77] The Board was a compromise – public ownership but not full nationalisation – and came into existence on 1 July 1933. On this date, the C&SLR and the other Underground companies were liquidated. [78] For a history of the line after 1933 see Northern line Legacy [ ]