Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/1 January

1 January

• 1853 – East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway renamed as the North London Railway.
• 1866 – London, Chatham and Dover Railway opens Snow Hill tunnel to connect its Ludgate Hill terminus to the Metropolitan Railway at Farringdon.
• 1869 – London and South Western Railway opens lines from Addison Road to Richmond and from New Malden to Kingston.
• 1869 – London, Chatham and Dover Railway connects Herne Hill to Tulse Hill.
• 1878 – Great Eastern Railway opens the Palace Gates Line from Seven Sisters to Wood Green.
• 1897 – Metropolitan Railway connects to Brill Tramway at Quainton Road.
• 1899 – South Eastern Railway and London, Chatham and Dover Railway merge to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.
• 1913 – Central London Railway and City & South London Railway are bought by the UERL.
• 1915 – Ilford rail crash kills 10 when an express train collides with a passenger train at Ilford station.
• 1917 – South Acton to Hammersmith & Chiswick line closes to passengers.
• 1923 – Britain's numerous railway companies merge into the "Big Four" (Great Western Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, London and North Eastern Railway and Southern Railway) to improve efficiency.
• 1946 – British European Airways is established as a subsidiary of British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• 1948 – Road haulage, rail and canal companies are nationalised and come under the control of the British Transport Commission. London Passenger Transport Board is replaced by London Transport Executive and railway companies by the Railway Executive.
• 1963 – London Transport Executive is replaced by London Transport Board.
• 1965 – Following the Worboys Committee's review of road transport signage, the first edition of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions is introduced specifying designs and standards for UK signage.
• 1970 – London Transport Board is replaced by Greater London Council's London Transport Executive.
• 1970 – London Transport Country area bus services and Green Line coaches transferred to National Bus Company subsidiary London Country Bus Services.
• 1974 – British European Airways' West London Air Terminal on Cromwell Road closes.