Place    From 1902 

Underground Electric Railways of London

Categories: Transport

The fore-runner of the London Underground system.

The London Electric Railways Company (1910-33) was a subsidiary of UERL and managed the deep-level companies: the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway and the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Underground Electric Railways of London

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