A little bit of list help

Would anyone be willing to help me with this list I've been making, by correcting any errors, providing missing dates of closures and filling the gaps that exist?   Thanks

The focus is purely on creating a simple list of the names and dates of railway companies, both defunct and still operating, in and around London and the Home Counties, including the UndergrounD Railways. The focus is not on the services offered, stations,extensions, ownerships etc.

I'm trying to make the list as complete as possible with all the railway companies of standard gauge that operated in and around London, and further afield, as long as they had trains running into and out of London, and all the various names that any given company may have had. I'm only interested in railway companies that used trains, earlier horse-drawn plateways are not of interest thank you.

Bracketed dates refer to future events on the list.


Here is the document so far:



PART 1

Duration - Railways

1833-1947 Great Western Railway (GWR)

1833-1846 London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR)

1836-1838 London and Greenwich Railway (L&GR)

1836-1922 South Eastern Railway (SER)

1836 - ? Birmingham, Bristol & Thames Junction Railway (>1844)

1837-1846 London and Brighton Railway (L&BR)

1838-1922 London and South Western Railway (LSWR) (1838-39 called London & Southampton Railway)

1839-1846 London and Croydon Railway (L&CR)

1839-1862 Eastern Counties Railway

1840-1926 (passengers) – 1968 (goods) London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR) (originally called Commercial Railway)

1844-1845 West London Railway. 1863 It became the West London Extension Joint Railway

1846-1922 Great Northern Railway (GNR)

1846-1922 London and North Western Railway (LNWR)

1846-1922 London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR)

1846-1922 Midland Railway

1846-1862 Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway

1846-2010 North London Line opened its first section in 1846. Fully open 1869. Closed 2006/2010.

1850-1922 North London Railway (NLR). From 1850 to 1853 called the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway (E&WID&BJR)

1856-1859 West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway (WELCPR)

1858-1922 Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway

1859-1922 London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR)

1861/3- 1961(passenger) -1965(freight) Colne Valley Railway

1862-1922 Great Eastern Railway (GER)

1869-1933 East London Railway (ELR) (> 1933)

1890-1907 City & South London Railway (C&SLR) (>1937)

1899-1923 South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR)

1900 -1954(closed to passengers) -1961(closed completely) Kent & East Sussex Railway (K&ESR)

1902-1964 Crowhurst, Sidley and Bexhill Railway

1902-1950 Whitechapel and Bow Railway

1904-1913 Great Northern & City Railway. Bought by the Metropolitan in 1913.

1907-1914 Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) “The Hampstead Tube” (>1937)

1923-1947 London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS).

1923-1947 London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

1923-1947 Southern Railway (SR)



PART 2

Openings, mergers, LT lines etc.


1849 London and Blackwall Extension Railway opens

1854 London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) opens (Essex Thameside)

1863 Metropolitan Railway opens

1868 Metropolitan District Railway opens

1871 Millwall Extension Railway opens

1898 L&SWR opens the Waterloo & City Line, “The Drain”.

1900 Central London Railway (CLR) opens.


1906 Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR) opens. But right from the beginning passengers referred to it as the Piccadilly Railway. The GNP&BR was formed through a merger of two older companies that never built their railways: the 1896 established Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway Co. (B&PCR) and the 1898 established Great Northern and Strand Railway Co. (GN&SR) along with parts of the District Railway.


1906 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opens. The official name was quickly changed to the popular name the Bakerloo.

1913 Great Northern & City Railway bought by the Metropolitan.

1917 Ealing & Shepherd’s Bush Railway (E&SBR) constructed by the GWR, opened as a steam-hauled freight only line in 1917. (>1920)

1920 Electrification of E&SBR and start of CLR services postponed until after WWI, eventually starting in August 1920.

1920s Merger of the C&SLR and the CCE&HR - Morden-Edgware Line (>1937)

1933 The ELR becomes part of LT, and is renamed the East London Branch of the Metropolitan Railway. (> 1970)

1937 The Morden-Edgware Line is now renamed the Northern Line
 
1938 CLR renamed Central Railway, due to plans to extend the line beyond the old County of London.

1949 The Circle Line becomes a line in its own right

1968 Victoria Line opens

1970 The East London Branch is renamed: Metropolitan Line – East London Section. (>1980s)

1977 Jubilee Line opens (1965 planning originally has it to be called the Fleet Line)

1980s The East London Line finally becomes its own entity.

1987 Docklands Light Railway (DLR) opens its first section. Many and continuing extensions over the years

1990 Hammersmith & City Line becomes a line in its own right



Thanks in advance
James