Portal:London transport/Anniversaries/12 November

1902 – Death of William Henry Barlow, railway engineer.
1919 – The first successful flight from England to Australia takes off from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome, arriving in Darwin on 10 December 1919 to win a £10,000 prize.
1940 – A German bomb kills 37 when it falls on a train at Sloane Square Underground station.

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