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# 55 Broadway: Where London's Transport Revolution Was Orchestrated Standing at 55 Broadway, you're standing at the nerve centre where London's fractured railway empire was finally unified into a coherent whole. This was the headquarters of the London Passenger Transport Board, established in 1933,...
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55 Broadway
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Railway Heritage Feature Underground Map of London (circa 1931) The map was manufactured by The Chromographic Enamel Company in Wolverhampton, reputed to have been established in around 1885, and who were one of the largest manufacturers of enamel signs during the heyday of such advertising signs. The map was originally located at the ‘Grade 2 Listed’ Ealing Common station and probably dates from the reconstruction of the station that was completed in 1932. It shows the various different railway companies of that time before they were eventually amalgamated into the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, following a series of buyouts and merge that made the Underground Group the largest component of the new ‘London Transport’. The map was recently rediscovered and is displayed here as part of LU’s heritage.