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Ben Nunn · October 7th 03, 10:24 AM posted to uk.transport.london

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Colin Rosenstiel
), in message
who said:

post-1914:

Finchley Road-Stratford
Brixton-Walthamstow Central
Clapham Common-Morden
Embankment-Kennington
Paddington-Queens Park
Finsbury Park-Arnos Grove
Liverpool St-Stratford
little bits of tunnel at Southgate, Hendon and Heathrow
a bit of Leytonstone-Newbury Park
little bit of DLR

I was talking about the lines. The surface lines were built for steam
and pretty complete before electrification 100 years ago. The tubes
were all-electric from the start but very limited until after WWI.
Look at the pre-1930s Piccadilly and after its extensions. It was
hugely expanded. Similarly the Northern from 1926.

But a large part of the Piccadilly 'expansion' was over existing
met/district lines that were already in place, the only genuinely new bits
were Finsbury Park to Cockfosters and the Heathrow Extension. All the
additional route miles gained from Earls Court to Hounslow and Uxbridge were
already built, and therefore the credit for their existence does not lie
with London Transport.

Simliarly the Northern line to High Barnet and MHE, which simply runs over
former GNR (or whatever) tracks.

BTN