The photographs featuring tube strikes, carriage redesigns, passenger complaints, ticket machines and air raid shelters...
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| Hammersmith Broadway, 1910. |
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| The interior of a District Line Underground carriage, 1911. |
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| The ticket hall of Liverpool Street Station, 1912. |
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| The platform of the Central London Railway extension at Liverpool Street Station, 1912. |
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| Interior of an all-steel London underground train, circa 1920. |
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| A man writing on a complaints poster, 1922. |
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| Farringdon Street (Farringdon) Station in March 1924. |
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| The entrance to Blackfriars Underground station, 1924. |
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| Clapham South, 1926. |
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| London tram workers queue up for their pay at the tram subway in Kingsway, High Holborn, 1926. |
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| An underground train being transported on wheels through the streets of London, 1926. |
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| The Mayor of Westminster turns on the escalators at Piccadilly Circus in 1928. |
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| British director Anthony Asquith (1902-1968), right, directing his new film ‘Underground’ from an escalator on the London underground, May 1928. |
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| Construction work at the ticketing area of the new Piccadilly tube station, 1928. |
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| The Hon Anthony Asquith filming commuters for his film of the underground, 1928. |
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| Platforms are lengthened at Euston Square underground station, 1930. |
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| A passenger takes a ticket from the machine at Piccadilly Circus, 1930. |
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| A traveller buys a London Underground season ticket from a vending machine at Highgate Station, 1932. |
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| Passengers on an escalator, September 1932. The posts were erected to avoided a crush during rush hours. |
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| Leicester Square, 1933. |
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| A group of Sikh men outside the entrance to Hyde Park Corner, circa 1935. |
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| New interiors in 1936: more seating, better lighting and ventilation and a more streamlined shape. |
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| A passenger opening one of the doors on the Hammersmith and City Underground Line, which have been fitted with new buttons for opening and closing doors, 1936. |
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| London’s Charing Cross Road with the Hippodrome and Leicester Square station on the left, 1938. |
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| The entrance to Embankment, 1938. |
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| A strike causes huge queues to build up at the bus stops outside Liverpool Street, 1939. |
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| Stockwell station, 1939. |
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| City gents, 1939. |
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| A guard outside a station which has been closed to the public two days after Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, 5th September 1939. |
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| People asleep on the platform of Holborn underground station during an air raid, 1940. |
(Photos: Hulton Archive / Getty Images, via BuzzFeed)
