Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/November
Anniversaries in November
- 1 November
- 1860 – A boiler explosion on a locomotive at King's Cross station kills 2.
- 1864 – Thames Valley Railway opens line from Strawberry Hill Junction to Shepperton.
- 1865 – Broad Street station opens as the City of London terminus of the North London Railway.
- 1875 – Bishopsgate station closes to passengers, remaining in use as a goods station.
- 2 November
- 1897 – Chipstead Valley Railway opens line between Purley and Kingswood.
- 1925 – Metropolitan Railway extends from Moor Park to Watford.
- 3 November
- There are no anniversaries today
- 4 November
- 1948 – Death of Albert Stanley, Chairman of London Passenger Transport Board.
- 5 November
- 1905 – Last steam trains run on the District Railway.
- 1967 – Hither Green rail crash kills 49 when a broken rail derails a train near Hither Green depot.
- 6 November
- 1900 – District Railway ends experimental electric train service between Earl's Court and High Street Kensington.
- 1963 – The new West London Air Terminal building opens on Cromwell Road replacing a temporary building opened in 1957.
- 1968 – Terminal 1 opens at Heathrow Airport.
- 7 November
- 1941 – Death of Frank Pick, Managing Director of London Passenger Transport Board.
- 8 November
- 1976 – Northern City Line extends at both ends from Drayton Park to Finsbury Park and from Old Street to Moorgate replacing the former Northern line Highbury Branch.
- 9 November
- 2016 – Croydon tram derailment kills 7 when a tram overturns near Sandilands tram stop when passing a sharp bend at too fast a speed.
- 10 November
- 1862 – First Lambeth Bridge over the River Thames opens.
- 11 November
- 2007 – London Overground takes over Silverlink franchise.
- 12 November
- 1902 – Death of William Henry Barlow, railway engineer.
- 1919 – The first successful flight from England to Australia takes off from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome, arriving in Darwin on 10 December 1919 to win a £10,000 prize.
- 1940 – A German bomb kills 37 when it falls on a train at Sloane Square Underground station.
- 13 November
- 1919 – The third competitor in the England to Australia flight leaves Hounslow Heath Aerodrome and crashes at Surbiton after a few minutes flying killing 2.
- 1961 – Terminal 3 opens at Heathrow Airport.
- 14 November
- There are no anniversaries today
- 15 November
- There are no anniversaries today
- 16 November
- There are no anniversaries today
- 17 November
- 1873 – Great Eastern Railway extends Walthamstow branch to Chingford.
- 1901 – City and South London Railway extends from Moorgate to Angel.
- 18 November
- 1750 – First Westminster Bridge over the River Thames opens.
- 1876 – Metropolitan Railway extends from Liverpool Street to Aldgate.
- 1957 – Epping to Ongar section of Central line is electrified replacing steam-hauled trains.
- 1987 – A fire at King's Cross underground station kills 31 people when a fire on a wooden escalator flashes-over.
- 19 November
- 1923 – Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway extends from Golders Green to Hendon Central.
- 1936 – A British Airways Ltd Fokker F.XII crashes into a hill at night in fog on approach to Gatwick Aerodrome, killing two crew and injuring two others.
- 1999 – Jubilee line closes between Green Park and Charing Cross.
- 20 November
- 1898 – Death of Sir John Fowler, railway engineer.
- 1905 – Great Western Railway opens second section of New North main line from Greenford to Northolt Junction.
- 1905 – Great Central Railway opens link line from Neasden Junction to Northolt Junction.
- 1905 – Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway opens line from Northolt Junction to Ashendon Junction.
- 1939 – Bakerloo line opens new tunnels between Baker Street and Finchley Road and extends from Baker Street to Stanmore replacing most Metropolitan line stopping services between Finchley Road and Wembley Park.
- 1999 – Jubilee line connects from Waterloo and Green Park, completing the Jubilee line extension.
- 1999 – Docklands Light Railway extends from Island Gardens to Lewisham.
- 21 November
- 1948 – Central line extends from Greenford to West Ruislip.
- 1948 – Central line extends from Woodford to Loughton and Hainault.
- 22 November
- 2009 – Old Terminal 2 closes at Heathrow Airport.
- 23 November
- 1878 – Birth of Frank Pick, Managing Director of London Passenger Transport Board.
- 1984 – A fire at Oxford Circus probably caused by smoker's material severely damages the northbound Victoria line platform.
- 24 November
- 1869 – Albert Embankment, part of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's Thames Embankment project, opens.
- 1879 – Metropolitan Railway extends from Finchley Road to West Hampstead.
- 25 November
- 1964 – Second section of the Chiswick Flyover opens.
- 26 November
- 1907 – A collision between trains at Farringdon injures 20 when an arriving train runs into a departing train.
- 1944 – Death of Edward Johnston, designer of the London Underground roundel and Johnston typeface.
- 27 November
- There are no anniversaries today
- 28 November
- 1967 – A newspaper train derails at Raynes Park when a goods van hits a footbridge over the line. The line is blocked for two days.
- 29 November
- 1729 – First Putney Bridge over the River Thames opens.
- 1961 – The inaugural flight of Caledonian Airways leaves Gatwick Airport for Barbados.
- 30 November
- 1907 – Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens Aldwych Branch from Holborn.
- 1913 – Metropolitan Railway opens additional "fast lines" between Finchley Road and Kilburn.
- 1935 – Metropolitan line ends services between Brill and Quainton Road.
