Trial rides on the new London Underground, 150 years ago

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday marked 150 years since the first ’trial ride’ on the London Underground, the first underground railway system in the world. I know this only because I visited the National Portrait Gallery in March and found this photograph (more precisely, this is my photograph of the photograph). The gallery’s accompanying text is as follows…

London on Philip Sheldrake

Trial rides on the new London Underground, 150 years ago