Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/11 September

11 September

• 1805 – Failure of a mooring chain at Blackwall allows a number of merchant ships to drift in the Thames and Boddington, runs aground on a sandbank, sinks and is wrecked.
• 1939 – London North Eastern Railway branch line from Finchley Central to Edgware closes for conversion to London Underground operation.