Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Video footage taken in January 2013 at Great Portland Street station on the London Underground during ‘London Transport 150’. The event was a celebration of 150 years of the Metropolitan Railway which opened in 1863 as the world’s first underground railway. Metropolitan Railway 0-4-4T locomotive No.1 built in 1898 and electric locomotive No.12 ‘Sarah Siddons’ built in 1926 are seen in action in the tunnels beneath London.
The train was formed of a number of special items of rolling stock, such as the Metropolitan Railway milk van, the Jubilee carriage No. 353 and a rake of four coaches which formerly operated the ‘Met’s’ Chesham shuttles (and which now reside at the Bluebell Railway).
Sadly, due to the installation of a new signalling and safety systems on the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines in 2019, events such as this using steam locomotives are unlikely to happen again.
Video footage taken in January 2013 at Great Portland Street station on the London Underground during ‘London Transport 150’. The event was a celebration of 150 years of the Metropolitan Railway which opened in 1863 as the world’s first underground railway. Metropolitan Railway 0-4-4T locomotive No.1 built in 1898 and electric locomotive No.12 ‘Sarah Siddons’ built in 1926 are seen in action in the tunnels beneath London.
The train was formed of a number of special items of rolling stock, such as the Metropolitan Railway milk van, the Jubilee carriage No. 353 and a rake of four coaches which formerly operated the ‘Met’s’ Chesham shuttles (and which now reside at the Bluebell Railway).
Sadly, due to the installation of a new signalling and safety systems on the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines in 2019, events such as this using steam locomotives are unlikely to happen again.
