Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/February
Anniversaries in February
- 1 February
- 1849 – London and South Western Railway opens line from Hampton Court Junction to Hampton Court.
- 1850 – London and South Western Railway opens line from Isleworth to Feltham Junction.
- 1859 – London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway open line between Epsom and Leatherhead.
- 1872 – District Railway extends from Earl's Court to Addison Road.
- 1875 – Metropolitan Railway extends from Moorgate to Liverpool Street, temporarily using platforms in the mainline station.
- 1905 – Lots Road Power Station opens.
- 2 February
- 1885 – London and South Western Railway opens lines from Leatherhead to Effingham Junction and from Surbiton to Guildford.
- 1930 – Kingsway tramway subway closes for reconstruction to allow double-decker tram operation.
- 3 February
- There are no anniversaries today
- 4 February
- 1945 – King's Cross railway accident kills 2 when the last carriage of a train rolling backwards from a slope derails.
- 2008 – London Low-emission zone is introduced to reduce harmful emissions from large diesel-engined vehicles.
- 5 February
- 1982 – Laker Airways goes bankrupt with debts of £270 million (equivalent to £1204 million in 2023).
- 6 February
- 7 February
- There are no anniversaries today
- 8 February
- 1836 – London and Greenwich Railway opens between Deptford and Spa Road, Bermondsey, the first steam railway line in London.
- 9 February
- 1846 – Birth of James Whitaker Wright, director of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway and fraudster.
- 10 February
- 1903 – The Royal Commission on London Traffic is established to review and make recommendations on road, tram and rail traffic in the London area.
- 1921 – North London Railway War Memorial unveiled at Broad Street station.
- 11 February
- 1872 – Birth of Edward Johnston, designer of the London Underground roundel and Johnston typeface.
- 1915 – Baker Street & Waterloo Railway extends from Kilburn Park to Queen's Park.
- 12 February
- There are no anniversaries today
- 13 February
- 1976 – An IRA bomb is defused at Oxford Circus station.
- 14 February
- 1848 – London and South Western Railway opens line from Weybridge Junction to Chertsey.
- 1904 – Great Northern & City Railway opens between Moorgate and Finsbury Park.
- 15 February
- 1915 – The Metropolitan Railway introduces First Class carriages on the Great Northern & City Railway.
- 16 February
- 1932 – Death of Sir Edgar Speyer, former chairman of Underground Electric Railways Company of London and financier.
- 17 February
- 1918 – A German bomb kills 20 and injures 33 when it falls on the cab rank and booking office at St Pancras station.
- 1959 – A crash of a Turkish Airlines passenger plane attempting to land in fog at Gatwick Airport kills 14.
- 2003 – Congestion charge zone introduced for central London roads.
- 18 February
- 1991 – The IRA explode bombs at Victoria and Paddington stations.
- 19 February
- 2007 – The Congestion Charge Zone is extended to the west to include western parts of the City of Westminster and most of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
- 20 February
- 1860 – A crash at Tottenham Hale kills 9 when a locomotive wheel failure causes a train to derail and crash into a platform.
- 21 February
- There are no anniversaries today
- 22 February
- There are no anniversaries today
- 23 February
- There are no anniversaries today
- 24 February
- 1906 – Kingsway tramway subway opens between Holborn and Aldwych.
- 1964 – British Railways ends goods services on Denham to Uxbridge High Street branch line.
- 25 February
- 1900 – City & South London Railway extends from Borough to Moorgate and closes King William Street section.
- 26 February
- There are no anniversaries today
- 27 February
- 1846 – London and Brighton Railway and London and Croydon Railway merge to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
- 28 February
- 1959 – District line services between Acton Town and South Acton end.
- 1968 – Following objections to the government's proposal to develop Stansted as London's third airport, the government announces a Commission on the Third London Airport will review options and sites for development.
- 1975 – Moorgate tube crash on the Northern line's Highbury Branch kills 43 when an Underground trains runs into the end wall of a dead-end tunnel.
- 1992 – The IRA explode a bomb at London Bridge station injuring 29.
- 29 February
- There are no anniversaries today
