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The history of the London Underground began in the 19th century with the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway.The Metropolitan Railway, which opened in 1863 using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, worked with the District Railway to complete London's Circle line in 1884.
Hannah Dadds (1941–2011), the first female train driver on the London Underground. [352] John Fowler (1817–1898) was the railway engineer that designed the Metropolitan Railway. [353] MacDonald Gill (1884–1947), cartographer credited with drawing, in 1914, "the map that saved the London Underground".
The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, [1] making it the world's oldest metro system. [2] The Shanghai Metro is both the world's longest metro network at 896 kilometres (557 mi) and the busiest with the highest annual ridership reaching approximately 2.83 ...
London Underground. The first and still one of the greatest of the world’s metro networks, London’s first subterranean railway line opened in January 1863 – with steam trains running below ...
The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) [a] was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs. Its first line connected the main-line railway termini at Paddington, Euston, and King's Cross ...
The transport system now known as the London Underground began in 1863 with the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway.Over the next forty years, the early sub-surface lines reached out from the urban centre of the capital into the surrounding rural margins, leading to the development of new commuter suburbs.
Authorised by the Hammersmith and City Railway Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. clxiv), and opened on 10 January 1863, it was the world's first underground railway. The line was built mostly under the New Road using the " cut-and-cover " method between Paddington and King's Cross and then in tunnel and cuttings beside Farringdon Road .
The world's first underground railway, it opened on 10 January 1863 with gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. The line operated at a frequency of three trains per hour, rising to four trains per hour during the peak periods. [4] [5] [6] In the 1871 plans for an underground railway in Paris, it was called the Métropolitain. [7]