Upney station was opened in 1932, on a mainline railway that had been running since the 1880s. The station has only ever been served by District line trains, but it was built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway who owned the mainline at the time, and was run by LMS and then British Railways staff until 1969.

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References

Steam to Silver. A History of London Transport Surface Rolling Stock by J. Graeme Bruce (London Transport 1970)

London's Underground Stations A Social and Architectural Study by Laurence Menear (Midas Books 1983)

London Underground Stations by David Leboff (Ian Allan Publishing 1994)

Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014)

Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015)

What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001)

Post Memories: The Mystery of Matchstick Island by Zoah Hedges-Stocks (Barking and Dagenham Post, August 15, 2016)

https://www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/post-memories-the-mystery-of-matchstick-island-3336762

Case study:Mayesbrook Climate Change Park restoration project (Restoring Europe’s Rivers website)

https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study%3AMayesbrook_Climate_Change_Park_restoration_project

Barking Hospital (Lost Hospitals of London website)

https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/barking.html

Eastbury Manor House website

https://www.eastburymanorhouse.org.uk/

Totteridge and Whetstone station can be found one stop short of the end of the High Barnet branch of the Northern line - not on the Bakerloo line as we may have once thought. Once we realised where the station was, we discovered it had an unexpectedly fascinating history, including uncompleted 1930s tube extension plans, social housing, lizards, a hospital for the railway company's horses, Soviet spies, and possibly a captive Nazi!

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References - owing to the number of sources referenced for this episode, we have listed them in a PDF document linked below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CkoV7g4XRXnIbAMRV4iu8rlW50J2pT8c/view?usp=sharing

There are two stations at Hammersmith - in this episode we discuss the older of the two, which today serves the Circle and Hammersmith and City lines, discovering a history of corporate rivalry and alliances, multiple reconstructions, state of the art signalling, and a barbershop open since 1911.

Note - We recorded this episode in March 2021, while London was still under lockdown due to Covid-19, so we make a few references to not being allowed out and plans for when lockdown ends.

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References

The Hammersmith & City Railway 150 Years by Mike Horne (London Underground & Nebulous Books 2014)

The Circle Line: An Illustrated History by Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing 2003)

London's Underground Stations - A Social and Architectural Study by Laurence Menear (Midas Books 1983)

Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994)

Tube Station Trivia by Geoff Marshall (Capital Transport Publishing 2018)

Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014)

Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015)

What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001)

The London Underground - A Diagrammatic History by Douglas Rose (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 2007, latest edition 2016)

Ordnance Survey map Middlesex XVI (Surveyed 1866, Published 1874) via National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345961

Ordnance Survey map London 1:1,056 - Sheet VI.96 (Published 1895) via National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/view/101201385

Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides by Clive Feather https://www.davros.org/rail/culg/hammersmith.html

Disused Stations - Hammersmith Grove Road site record http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/hammersmith_grove_road/

Transport for London Research Guide No 19: A Brief History of the Hammersmith and City Line http://content.tfl.gov.uk/research-guide-no-19-a-brief-history-of-the-hammersmith-and-city-line.pdf

Alexander Barbers http://alexanderbarbers.com/

Earl's Court station on the District and Piccadilly lines is notable for many "firsts", with the Underground's first escalator, its first automatic lifts, the first electric trains on the cut-and-cover lines, and the first Ferris Wheel in Britain having once stood nearby. We'll visit all these historic occasions using the TARDIS which stands outside the station! 

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References

Going Green: The Story of the District Line by Piers Connor (Capital Transport Publishing 1993)

The District Line: An Illustrated History by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing; First Edition 2006)

The Northern Line: An Illustrated History by Mike Horne and Bob Bayman (Capital Transport Publishing; New edition 1999)

History of the Metropolitan District Railway to June 1908 by Alexander Edmonds (London Regional Transport 1974)

Underground: How the Tube Shaped London by David Bownes, Oliver Green, Sam Mullins (Allen Lane 2012)

Amazing and Extraordinary London Underground Facts by Stephen Halliday (David & Charles 2009)

The Moving Metropolis: A History of London's Transport Since 1800 by David Lawrence (Laurence King Publishing; second edition 2015)

The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How it Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar (Atlantic Books 2004)

Building London's Underground by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2016)

Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994)

Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways by Alan Arthur Jackson and Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 1993)

London Underground at War by Nick Cooper (Amberley Publishing 2014)

The London Underground Electric Train by Piers Connor (The Crowood Press Ltd 2015)

Charles Tyson Yerkes - Traction King of London by Tim Sherwood (The History Press 2008)

Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar and Louise Coysh  (Art/Books 2014)

Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015)

What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th Revised edition 2001)

Metadyne.co.uk - http://www.metadyne.co.uk/DistrictPages/MDR_bigwheel.html

Mike Horne's blog - https://machorne.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/escalators-inclined-elevators-and-myths/

In our first episode, we’ve opened our bag of London Underground station names and drawn out Hatton Cross. Opened in 1975 on the Piccadilly line extension towards Heathrow Airport, it was at the time the 279th station on the Underground, the highest number ever on the network. 

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References

The Piccadilly Line - A Brief History by Charles Edward Lee (London Regional Transport 1973)

The Piccadilly Tube: The First Hundred Years by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2007)

The Piccadilly Line an Illustrated History by Desmond Croome (Capital Transport Publishing 1998)

Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways by Alan Arthur Jackson and Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 1993)

A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land by Joshua Abbott (Unbound Publishing 2020)

Underground Movement by Paul Moss (Capital Transport Publishing 2000)

Building London's Underground by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2016)

Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994)

Tube Station Trivia by Geoff Marshall (Capital Transport Publishing 2018)

The Moving Metropolis: A History of London's Transport Since 1800 by David Lawrence (Laurence King Publishing; second edition 2015)

Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014)

Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015)

What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001)

The London Underground - A Diagrammatic History by Douglas Rose (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 2007, latest edition 2016) 

Extension of the Piccadilly Line from Hounslow West to Heathrow Central by D.G.Jobling and A.C.Lyons (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers May 1976)

Ian Visits: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/12/16/40-years-of-flying-the-tube-with-the-london-underground-to-heathrow/

Pastscape: https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1311086

Modernism in Metroland: http://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/hatton-cross-station.html

Underground Idiom guide: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/station-design-idiom-2.pdf 

A first preview of a new podcast all about the London Underground. Each episode, your hosts Paul and Emily will draw one of 270 London Underground stations out of a bag, research it, and tell you everything they have learned. First episode coming Tuesday 22nd June 2021 – subscribe today and don't miss getting on this train!