Prime Minister William Gladstone opens the Metropolitan Railway, London mb-code MP_0119171 Pope Pius IX created six

Pope Pius IX created six new cardinals

A view from the street

Inscribed in pencil 'Photog 334'

Members of the old and new ministry sitting and standing around a card table

A print from The Pictorial Arts of Japan

Prime Minister William Gladstone opens the Metropolitan Railway, London mb-code MP_0119171 Pope Pius IX created sixPrime 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