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The Engineer 150

July 1895: Metropolitan Line

Published: 12 December 2006  03:25 PM
Source: The Engineer

Probably few persons among the many hundreds of thousands annually using the Metropolitan Railway are aware that when it was first opened for traffic, in January, 1863, from Bishop’s-road to Farringdon-street, it was a broad-gauge line, worked by broad-gauge engines and carriages…

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