Prime Minister William Gladstone opens the Metropolitan Railway, London mb-code MP_0119171 View of Fulwood Place

View of Fulwood Place

Dublin in 1867

Inscribed in pencil 'Photog 334'

cousin of the late Emperor Louis Napoleon

Prime Minister William Gladstone opens the Metropolitan Railway, London mb-code MP_0119171 View of Fulwood PlacePrime Minister William Gladstone opens the Metropolitan Railway, London, 1863 (1951). Engineered by John Fowler, the Metropolitan Railway was the first line of what would eventually become the London Underground. On January 10 1863, the railway operated its first service, which ran from Farringdon Street north to King's Cross, and west to Paddington (Bishop's Road), utilising trains hauled by steam engines. A print from 100 Years in Pictures, A