Metropolitan line
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The Metropolitan line, colloquially known as the Met, is a London Underground line between Aldgate in the City of London and Amersham and Chesham in Buckinghamshire, with branches to Watford in Hertfo
A northbound S8 Stock Metropolitan line train at Croxley heading to Watford
Construction of the Metropolitan line near King's Cross station (1861)
12 Sarah Siddons with vintage train at Hammersmith
T Stock train passing Neasden Depot in 1959
Metropolitan Railway
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The Metropolitan Railway 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
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…distance between stations means trains can achieve the system's highest speeds, up to 62 miles per hour (100 km/h), on some sections. In 1863, the Metropolitan Railway was the world's first underground railway. It first ran between Paddington and Farringdon, with wooden carriages and steam locomotives, subsequently…
Montage of the Metropolitan Railway's stations from The Illustrated London News December 1862, the month before the railway opened
The cutting at Farringdon following the flooding from the Fleet sewer in June 1862
Metropolitan Railway A-Class 4-4-0T No 23 in Covent Garden