Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/13 July

13 July

• 1870 – Victoria Embankment, part of Joseph Bazalgette's Thames Embankment project, opens.
• 1899 – Chipstead Valley Railway absorbed by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.
• 1928 – A crash of an Imperial Airways passenger plane at Purley shortly after take-off from Croydon Aerodrome kills 4.