Metropolitan Steam Locomotive No. 1 retraces the world's first underground train journey, which began beneath Paddington Station in 1863. The engine is gorgeous. It was built in 1898 and wasn't pulled from service until 1963.
My protagonist in To Save the Realm, Brock Coole, suffering from a severe hangover, meets a young Lee Harvey Oswald in Paddington in October 1959. Oswald was en route to Moscow to defect.
