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Very interesting digest of Victoriana. Thanks, dg.
According to your link to the Queens first ride, you didn't mention her fourth visit during the 150th anniversary. Perhaps that was deliberate as the Metropolitan is not really a "tube" line.
Please don’t start the pointless tube v not tube argument.
I didn't mention the Queen's visit to Baker Street in 2013 because the train she boarded didn't move.
At the behest of causing upset, the Victoria Line (and Victoria station and its main line station for that matter) were not named after Queen Victoria.
Ah, interested to hear the one way at Victoria is only temporary. Phew.
The Victoria line wasn't named after Queen Victoria but after Victoria station, which it serves, but which wasn't named after Queen Victoria but after Victoria Street, which runs nearby, but which was named after Queen Victoria in 1851.
I believe the passage between the District & Circle and original Victoria line ticket office was there when the Victoria line opened. It was enlarged in the 1990s
I knew you would say that however the point is no-one said we're naming it after QV. It got named after a place.
The passageway has been there a long time. 1930s or 1940s I believe.
The Queen's Victoria line ticket cost 5 old pence (i.e. just about 2p in decimal cash). Using the Bank of England's handy inflation calculator, that was approximately 32p at today's prices. Hmmm.
I'm pretty sure that the passageway from the Sussex Stairs via the site of the first Victoria Line ticket hall was the main link between the mainline station and the District Line before the Victoria Line was built - it seemed a very long walk when it was just an uninterrupted walkway - with the stairs being widened for the Victoria Line.

When the Kent Stairs were built has slipped from my memory.
Barry LeJeune (chair of the LT Museum friends) likes to tell the story that the first sixpence the Queen was given to buy her ticket was rejected by the machine. LT’s head of PR had to search his pockets for another one, which luckily the machine accepted. Otherwise, things would have been rather embarrassing...
There are different ways of measuring inflation. According to https://measuringworth.com "In 2017, the relative value of £0 0s 5d from 1965 ranges from £0.36 to £1.16."

RPI gives 39p, but comparing to changes in measures of wages or GDP growth can give much much higher figures. That is, as a fraction of average wages, 70p or £1 might be a better estimate, and compared to growth in the whole economy, it might be even more,
"The Victoria line wasn't named after Queen Victoria but after Victoria station, which it serves, but which wasn't named after Queen Victoria but after Victoria Street, which runs nearby, but which was named after Queen Victoria in 1851."

So there....

Love it
It may help non London based readers to add (Pimlico) into 'Victoria line trivia 2:'. But then if they don't know London the name of one station isn't going to help much?!

I seem to recall thought that you may have posted about the 12 station stretch north of Pimlico with links to other rail based services. I take it that this holds the record for London.
But surely the Circle line would beat that, as technically other train services are available at every station :)

I do recall that Blackhorse Road wasn't marked as an interchange station at first, probably owing to the planned closure of the GOBLIN then.

dg writes: You recall correctly.
Queen Victoria was named after her mother, so it is a German name.
@kev Try Latin !
Finding it hard the read the comment thread today.. due to sound of the claxons.
Strange that the plaque refers only to 'Queen Elizabeth', rather than 'Queen Elizabeth II'.
Or this may just be fairly typical.
Not very strange. References to the Queen sometimes include the II and sometimes omit it, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern. The context of opening a tube line does rather rule out Queen Elizabeth I of England. Scotland is another matter.
Victoria originally opened in 1868? Mainline in 1860?

Damn the underground is older than I thought :-b
Re Victoria line trivia 5: Victoria line tunnels are a bit bigger than their Edwardian counterparts . . .
The tunnels were built bigger to reduce the wind (draught) on the platforms as trains approach.
The 1967 stock could be brought in / out of the Victoria Line via its connections to other lines.
I have heard that the 2009 stock is a little wider (to take advantage of the larger tunnels), so had to be delivered by road to Northumberland Park depot.
However, Wikipedia states that the 2009 stock is a little narrower. Perhaps it's the greater length of each coach of the 2009 stock which makes it too big to be moved on other lines.
….which is why Scottish pillar boxes do not sport the "E II R " monogram. A similar issue will arise if Prince William becomes king.

We had two Queen Elizabeths - mother and daughter - in 1969. Maybe there was some doubt about which one was going to open the line.
Verde is not a new building but a refurb/minor extension of an already very large '80's? Government building (last home to DCMS I think). And Cardinal has been there for a while but there is a lot of new build high rise office in the area making the new cardinal entrance to the tube quite welcome (except to the person who was injured by falling cladding in high winds not long after opening..not helped by high rise buildings acting as a wind tunnel)










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