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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  • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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    3 years ago

    i think everyone was just being stupidly optimistic and didn't like reality being shoved in their face.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think people really internalized the "just a bad flu" narrative. Without considering how bad a really bad flu could be. In the U.S. Swine Flu spread to like 60 million people, and killed like 12000. A virus like it with the death rate of covid would be insane, as we're seeing.