A punchy, quick-fire history of the Metropolitan line. This is where it all began. The Metropolitan Railway opened from Paddington to Farringdon in 1863 becoming not only London's but also the ...

While rich-country underground rail networks are creaky and old, developing countries have zipped ahead. The world added ...

Networks have more than doubled in a decade, and few nations are speeding ahead faster than China.

London’s Tube is the oldest underground railway in the world, with the first trains travelling between Paddington and Farringdon in 1863. The Metropolitan line was the Underground’s first ...

I am mortified. I was not invited on the trial run of a steam train on the Metropolitan line at the weekend. As for tickets on the actual 150th anniversary trip next month, from Earl’s Court to ...

London’s monumental Metropolitan Railway opened on January 9, 1863, and the very next day the general public was permitted to ride the trains for the first time. The dauntless and, for Victorian ...

Commuters can get from the Home County to Aldgate in east London and all stations in between on the Metropolitan Line – the oldest underground railway in the world, opened in 1863 between ...

In an editorial in THE NEW YORK TIMES of July 1, in commenting on the efficient way in which the Metropolitan Street Railway Company serves the public in this city, you said: View Full Article in ...

The first section, then known as the Metropolitan Railway, opened more than 160 years ago in January 1863. But the UK’s capital city is by no means the only place with its own similar network ...

The Metropolitan line is the oldest underground railway in the world, with the first trains travelling between Paddington and Farringdon in 1863. It was originally conceived as a radical solution to ...