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Post by ruislip on Jun 25, 2008 22:38:22 GMT
I know this terminology ended with the "official" naming of the Hammersmith & City around 1990, but when did this terminology begin?
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 25, 2008 23:36:51 GMT
I know this terminology ended with the "official" naming of the Hammersmith & City around 1990, but when did this terminology begin? Sometime between 1888 and 1906. But the No 1 section then was what is now the No 2 section. The No 4 section was then the City Widened Lines. As an 'educated guess' and back-calculating from the earliest LPTB Met Line WTT I can find I'd say, pending further (rather detailed) research that the No 1 section of the LPTB era that ended in 1990 continued with the first Metropolitan WTT issued under the aegis of the LPTB in, but not before, 1933. What complicates the matter is that 4 separate potential allocations of numbers are in the series that is still running with the current WTT 324; moreover whole positive integers are not always issued to a new WTT - sometimes the East London Line was issued as part of the No 1 section, sometimes it was separate but issued under the No 1 section number with a suffix. The City Widened Lines always (insofar as I can see) were issued with a new whole number with each new WTT. I strongly suspect that with the 'grouping' of 1923 the Met reorganised the timetable sections and the series that is in use today dates from then. |
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