Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/5 April

5 April

• 1952 – The last tram runs through Kingsway tramway subway.
• 1964 – Full-scale trials of automatic train operation begin between Woodford and Hainault on the Central line.
• 1968 – RAF pilot Alan Pollock flies a Hawker Hunter jet below the upper span of Tower Bridge as part of a protest that the 50th anniversary of the founding of the RAF was not celebrated.
• 1994 – London Underground operation of the Waterloo & City line begins.