The Metropolitan Railway was the very first underground railway in the world, and opened to the public on this day in 1863. It served London from then until 1933, for 70 years. It was also known as the Met. Former Met tracks and stations are used by the London Underground's Metropolitan, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Piccadilly, Jubilee and Victoria lines, and by Chiltern Railways and Great Northern.
Its main line headed northwest from the financial district in the City of London to what would later become Middlesex. Its first line connected the main-line railway termini at Paddington, Euston, and King's Cross to the City. The first section was built beneath the New Road using cut-and-cover between Paddington and King's Cross and in tunnel and cuttings beside Farringdon Road from King's Cross to near Smithfield, near the City. It opened to the public on 10 January 1863 with gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, the world's first passenger-carrying designated underground railway.
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How bad is the empty shelves situation?
It's intermittent. I live in California so all of the major ports convene here along with being the breadbasket of the
worldUSA it has never been too bad but we have slowly been beginning to have issues with certain products being out of stock completely. We have been getting late delivieries for a while, but recently they sometimes won't show up at all. After Christmas we had about 2 weeks of some shelves being completely empty, which is the first time I've seen it like that since the pandemic started. I've heard it's MUCH worse elsewhere in the country, and due to labor shortages (people just straight up quit or got COVID) I've been told by my bosses that the distribution centers are doing really fucking badly.Certain stores also always seem to be out of very specific things as well, the local auto parts store has not had certain hose clamps or vacuum lines in stock for what feels like months now. I think the most dystopian thing is no one has any COVID tests. Apparently (since it's literally almost impossible to figure out what the fuck is going on anymore) testing is now being left to The Market™ so everyone just bumrushes CVS or Walgreens to buy tests rofl.
It's not really all that bad were I'm at, but I live only 20-30 miles away from multiple crucial port towns. It's more like you will just get intermittent weird shit that makes you realize nothing is really "okay" anymore. I've seen pictures of shit from r/collapse that look horrifying though, people inland have like nothing in stock
Oh wow. It was like that in my homecountry back around 1989-1990. At first things were gone intermittently. Then it got more frequent and took longer. Then we had bread lines and getting a certain car part would depend on knowing the right person somewhere in the supply chain who could steal one for you and stuff like that. So.. uhm, welcome to Eastern Europe, enjoy your stay, try not to balkanize.