By John Glover
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THE VICTORIA LINE IS NOW HALF A CENTURY OLD. JOHN GLOVER TAKES A LOOK AT ITS HISTORY AND ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS
KIM RENNIE
By 1907, the Underground network in central London was essentially complete, or as complete as it would be for the next half century. Future extensions were to be into the suburbs.
There was, however, a gap.
The planners of the 1940s recognised this and the British Transport Commission’s London Plan Working Party report of 1949 identiied it as Route C.
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