First underground passenger railway serves London

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Category

Transportation

Place

United Kingdom

Date

1863

Reference

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"London's Underground--known as 'The Tube'--was soon copied in other capitals, notably Moscow and Paris, and a new era of speed and mobility in urban transportation was born." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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