3-053-375 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Trial Trip on the Underground Railway, 1863', (c1876). Work on the world’s first underground railway started in 1860, by the Metropolitan Railway under chief engineer John Fowler, a three mile tunnel ran from Paddington to Farringdon Street. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]. (Colorised black and white print).