Mapping the Underground Written by Pam Preedy. On the 10th January, 1863 the Metropolitan Railway Company opened the first urban underground railway in the world. It ran from Paddington to Farringdon via six intermediate stations, using a steam locomotive. By 2024 there were 272 stations on eleven different lines stretching into the London’s suburbs as far as Amersham, Uxbridge and the five Heathrow Terminals to the west; Richmond, Wimbledon, and Morden to the south; Upminster to the east and Epping, Cockfosters, High Barnet and Watford to the north. The question…
Year: 2026
Nursing the Casualties on the D-Day landing beaches
Nursing the Casualties on the D-Day landing beaches Written by Pam Preedy. The night of 5th June 1944 saw the start of the Allied Invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. During the first day of the D-Day landing there were some 10,000 casualties. A medical support system under the Royal Medical Corps, was quickly set up in France. It included dressing stations, field hospitals,…