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Description: | Victoria station on the District Railway (now District line) opened in 1868. This photo shows the original signage on the exterior of the building.
A row of horse-drawn cabs lines up outside, though horsepower was slowly being superseded by motor engines and electrically powered vehicles. However the cabs here are still all horse drawn.
Motor cabs were introduced in great numbers from 1907, when 723 were licensed in London. Cab owners had to pay a special fee to be allowed to collect passengers from a station. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | 1900 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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