Building the London Tubes

By Antony Badsey-Ellis

This new book deals with the construction of and major improvements to London Underground’s deep level tube railways: the Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Northern, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines. The author has done extensive research into the subject and tells the story of how these lines have developed since the first, the City & South London Railway (part of today’s Northern line), was built in the 1880s and opened in 1890. Major development occurred in 1906/07 when American investment and business acumen produced the central London sections of the Bakerloo, Northern and Piccadilly lines.

176 pages Hardback

ISBN 978-1-85414-495-9

Publication October 2025