Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/24 December

24 December

• 1838 – London and Greenwich Railway opens line from Deptford to Greenwich.
• 1868 – Metropolitan Railway extends from Gloucester Road to South Kensington.
• 1868 – District Railway opens between South Kensington and Westminster.
• 1924 – A crash of an Imperial Airways passenger plane at Purley shortly after take-off from Croydon Aerodrome kills 8.