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Old January 11th 13, 01:15 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Daily Telegraph: 150 fascinating Tube facts
We were about to embark at Dover, when
(Recliner) came up to me and whispered:

And, yes, the original Met
counts as one of the parents of today's Underground.

They they are seven years late.

The first trains ran on what is now the Central Line in 1856.

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