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Show LONDON'S FIRST SUBWAY Enormous Difficulties Experienced In Construction of Underground Railway Opened in 1863. In October, 1860, London's first ; nnderground railway was approach- ! tag completion, but It was not until January 10, 1S63, that the first passenger pas-senger train ran. Enormous difficulties diffi-culties were experienced during construction. The third-class, passengers traveled trav-eled In trucks, but the first-class carriages were lofty and comfortable. comfort-able. The carriages held ten persons, per-sons, and were lighted by gas. They were high enough to allow a tall man to stand wearing his silk hat. Sir William Hardman, In "A Mid-Victorian Pepys" (Cecil Tclm-er), Tclm-er), describes the first time he took his wife to visit "The Drain," as the new Underground was called. "It goes very smoothly and rap-Idly," rap-Idly," he writes ; "It feels very safe -and quiet. I am spirited away to Bayswater before I know we have Started. The only difficulty Is not to pas's yotif sfatloiS, for thS stations sta-tions are all precisely alike, without with-out any distinctive features of surrounding sur-rounding streets or country to guide you, and If you ore not carefully care-fully looking out you are carried farther than you Intended to go." |