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Post by Dstock7080 on Aug 11, 2011 6:49:30 GMT
Todays METRO, the MetroTravel page states that:
"the first section of the District line started running in 1868. It was the world's first Underground railway" !!
Perhaps LU are looking for an excuse to delay the 150yrs Anniversary, to get the Q Stock finished?!?
Take that MET!!! ;D
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Post by metman on Aug 11, 2011 6:57:54 GMT
It was not the worlds first underground railway! It was the Met in 1863!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2011 13:44:10 GMT
Im siding on the Met here  |
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Post by citysig on Aug 11, 2011 15:54:48 GMT
Im siding on the Met here Ruislip, Wembley Park or maybe Amersham?  ;D 10th January 1863 was of course the date that the first proper London Underground railway opened for business - with some lesser lines opening a while later. The pages in the Metro are often written by the LU press office, rather than the paper itself, so it's either a mis-type or someone needs to research to company they're working for a little more ;D |
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Post by astock5000 on Aug 11, 2011 23:18:50 GMT
Maybe they read about how the Metropolitan didn't want to be part of the LPTB, and decided to count the Met as a proper railway. Although it is a bit late for that (either 78 years or just one, depending on when you believe the Met was ruined became a normal Underground line).
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Post by Ben on Aug 12, 2011 6:40:10 GMT
The Met isn't even the oldest railway formation used by underground trains currently. That goes to the Central out east, doesn't it? 1868, how odd...
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Post by norbitonflyer on Aug 12, 2011 6:58:27 GMT
Other TfL services use even older formations - Overground Euston to Watford (1837), and the Forest Hill line (1841), and DLR Minories Junction to Blackwall (1840) The Thames Tunnel between Wapping and Rotherhithe, but not the track within it, is even older.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2011 18:15:49 GMT
What about the Tower Subway?
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Post by andypurk on Aug 12, 2011 20:10:10 GMT
Other TfL services use even older formations - Overground Euston to Watford (1837) However, much of the formation of the Euston - Watford DC line only dates back to the 1910s-1920s, when the New Line was completed. This especially applies to the section from Kensal Green to Wembley Central running away from the WCML with the section from Wembley - Watford High Street also on new trackbed. |
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