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Much of the central London network was completed in the first 50 years, all through private development. In this period the first group of routes were built in shallow cut-and-cover tunnels along existing thoroughfares and needed plenty of vents to allow smoke and steam from the engines to escape.Baker Street

Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863.subway, underground railway system used to transport large numbers of passengers within urban and suburban areas. Subways are usually built under city streets for ease of construction, but they may take shortcuts and sometimes must pass under rivers.

Is the London Underground the first system in the world : The world's first underground railway opened in London in 1863, as a way of reducing street congestion. Here is a very short history of the Underground.

What is the name of the London Underground

Is the Tube older than the subway : THE world's first metro, now the world's oldest system, is the London Underground in England, which is more commonly known as the Tube, which was opened in 1863.

A passenger railway going inside an urban area was called the METROPOLITAN RAILWAY (urban train system), in modern English: METRO. The first metro was opened in London and later most of it was soon built underground (under the city), so it was then called THE UNDERGROUND, even to this day.

Even though it is called the Underground about half of it is above the ground. The "Tube" is a slang name for the London Underground, because the tunnels for some of the lines are round tubes running through the ground. The Underground serves 270 stations and over 408 km of track.

What is the difference between Tube and subway

They are different names for the same thing (subway, underground public transportation). Subway is the most common term in the U.S., Metro is Paris and Washington, D.C., the tube is London.Speakers of British English also use subway for systems in American cities and metro for systems in other European countries. The Metro is the name for the systems in Paris and Washington, D.C. London's system is often called the Tube.The London Underground is often called the Tube because of the shape of the tunnels. The London Underground is one of the oldest metro systems in the world, opening in 1863. When the Central Line Railway opened in 1900, it was called the Twopenny Tube, referencing the price of a ticket.

The word is actually Tube, it's just that some of the various regional accents and pronunciations in the UK can make it sound like Chube. So if you're travelling on the London Underground system its generally easier to say 'I'm going on the underground or I'm going by tube.

What do Londoners call the subway : the Tube

Is the train and Tube the same in London : Tube trains are trains, the Tube is just the colloquial name for the London Underground train network, where the deep level lines have tunnels which are round like tubes. Not every line goes underground for its whole length however and many stations around the edge of London are surface level.

What do British call a subway

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.

So if you're travelling on the London Underground system its generally easier to say 'I'm going on the underground or I'm going by tube. 'A city's underground railway system is usually called the underground (often the Underground) in British English and the subway in North American English. Speakers of British English also use subway for systems in American cities and metro for systems in other European countries.

Is London tube same as metro : Metro is used by other cities to brand their underground or light rail systems (eg Paris, Shanghai, Newcastle UK). The London branding is Underground or "the Tube".