Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/22 May

22 May

• 1865 – London, Brighton and South Coast Railway opens line from Sutton to Epsom Downs.
• 1897 – Blackwall Tunnel opens under the River Thames between Blackwall and the Greenwich Peninsula.
• 1954 – A road accident on a bridge near Farringdon station kills 3 when a lorry fails on to the railway tracks.