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The Metropolitan Railway ( also known as the Met ) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its mainline heading north from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.
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The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.
* James Henry Greathead, who helped with the Tower Subway, and became resident engineer on the Hammersmith extension railway and the Richmond extension of the Metropolitan District Railway, a post which he held for four years.
The Underground railway system had been developed and was owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) and the Metropolitan Railway.
The Metropolitan Railway, for example, was active in building and promoting its own housing estates in the north-west of London, consisting mostly of detached houses on large plots, which it then marketed as " Metro-land ".
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** SSR ( Sub Surface Railway ): Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines
He established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to take control of the Metropolitan District Railway and the part built Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ; Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ; and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.
After acquiring the Great Northern & City Railway ( GN & C ) in 1913 ( the current Northern City Line ), the Metropolitan Railway made plans to join the GN & C to the Waterloo & City or to the Circle Line, but these never came to fruition.
On 10 January 1863 the Metropolitan Railway opened a line between Paddington and Farringdon.
Construction of the Metropolitan Railway close to King's Cross station in 1861
The origins of the Metropolitan line lie with the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opening in 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon Street, to connect the relatively remote terminus of Paddington with the City.
The Metropolitan Railway branched out to the suburbs from Baker Street, reaching Harrow in 1880, and eventually as far as, over from the centre of London.
An extension at the southern end of the line to Camberwell and Denmark Hill was proposed and approved in 1931 as part of the London Electric Metropolitan District and Central London Railway Companies ( Works ) Act, 1931.
In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway opened the world's first underground line between Paddington and Farringdon Street with wooden carriages and steam locomotives.
The same year a select committee report recommended an ' inner circle ' of railway lines connecting the London railway termini, and the Metropolitan District Railway was formed the next year to build the southern portion of the line.
In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon Street, connecting Great Western Railway's relatively remote terminus at Paddington with Euston and King's Cross stations and the City.
In the next year the Metropolitan District Railway ( commonly known as the District railway ) was formed to build and operate a railway from South Kensington to Tower Hill.
When introduction was attempted on 1 July 1905 a Metropolitan train overturned the third rail on the District Railway ; following this the Metropolitan trains were modified before running again on the District lines and full electric service started on 24 September.
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; Metropolitan bishop: A metropolitan bishop is an archbishop in charge of an ecclesiastical province, or group of dioceses, and in addition to having immediate jurisdiction over his own archdiocese, also exercises some oversight over the other dioceses within that province.
The Chicago Metropolitan Area also includes adherents of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and the Bahá ' í, among others.
Fayed settled the dispute with a payment to his widow ; he also sued the Metropolitan Police for false arrest in 2002, but lost the case.
In addition, the Cupid sculpture " rediscovered " in the French Embassy in New York in 1996 ( now on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ) has also been inconclusively attributed to Michelangelo.
The Flail later was closely related to the ‘’ heqa ’’- scepter, but in early representations the king was also depicted solely with the flail, as shown in a late pre-dynastic knife handle which is now in the Metropolitan museum, and on the Narmer Macehead.
The Statute of Winchester of 1285 is also cited as the primary legislation regulating the policing of the country between the Norman Conquest and the Metropolitan Police Act 1829.
Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso ’ s works of this period, also represented in The Blindman ’ s Meal ( 1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art ) and in the portrait of Celestina ( 1903 ).
Pretoria is contained within the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality as one of several constituent former administrations ( among which also Centurion and Soshanguve ).
* 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
Some early records are also held on behalf of TfL Group Archives at the London Metropolitan Archives.
There are also occasional heritage train runs on the Metropolitan line.
Bolesław I also managed to establish a Polish church structure with a Metropolitan See at Gniezno, independent of the German Archbishopric of Magdeburg, which had tried to lay claim to Polish areas.
Larger eparchies, exarchates, and autonomous Churches are governed by a Metropolitan archbishop and sometimes also have one or more bishops assigned to them.
The airport, also known as Holman Field, is a reliever airport run by the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
Many school boards also use " high school "; for instance the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education uses " senior high school ".
The city hosts several cathedrals belonging to the colonial times, such as the San Francisco Cathedral and the Metropolitan Cathedral, this last one located on Murillo Square, which is also home of the political and administrative power of the country.
Is also, an important centre of the Metropolitan Area Stretto di Messina ( who also includes areas of Reggio Calabria ), with the near city Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto.
It is a part of the Washington Metropolitan Area, yet is also recognized as part of Western Maryland.
He also dispatched a papal legate, Igmarus ( or Hincmar ), to England, charged to investigate the request of Bernard, Bishop of St David's, to elevate his see to the rank of Metropolitan bishop, and to take the pallium to William, Archbishop of York.
A key outcome of this process was the establishment of a Metropolitan Urban Limit (“ MUL ”) or urban fence that dictated the nature and extent of urban activities that could occur within the MUL and hence also dictated the relative values of land within the MUL.
There are also several general aviation airports in the Memphis Metropolitan Area, including the Millington Regional Jetport, located at the former Naval Air Station in Millington, Tennessee.
They also constitute 24 % of all Olympic Seattle Scholarship winners, 33 % of USA Math Olympiad winners, 15. 5 % of Putnam Math Competition winners, and 36 % of Duke Talent Identification Grand Recognition Ceremony attendees from the Dallas Metropolitan area.
This location is also home to the agency's administrative offices, as well as the offices of the Municipal Water District of Orange County, a member of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Metropolitan Salt Lake was also once the headquarters of American Stores, the Skaggs Companies, and ZCMI, one of the first department stores ; it is currently owned by Macy's, Inc. Former ZCMI stores now operate under the Macy's label.
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