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Construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. Illustration shows the trench and partially completed cut and cover tunnel close to Kings Cross station, London. The railway opened in 1863. |
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| Date | 2 February 1861 | ||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | The Illustrated London News, page 98. Scan retrieved from The British Newspaper Archive | ||||||||||||||||
| Other versions | w:File:Metropolitan Railway, King's Cross 1862.JPG | ||||||||||||||||
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| current | 09:16, 15 November 2022 | | 9,372 × 6,326 (44.25 MB) | Sette-quattro | higher quality scan from same source, url: Source: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001578/18610202/034/0012 |
| 02:44, 24 May 2009 |  | 720 × 496 (353 KB) | DavidCane | {{Information |Description=Construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. Illustration shows the trench and partially completed cut and cover tunn |
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