File:Constructing the Metropolitan Railway.jpg
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creator QS:P170,Q18160865 (signature lower left). |
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Construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway. Illustration shows the trench and partially completed cut and cover tunnel close to Kings Cross station, London. The railway opened in 1863. |
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2 February 1861 date QS:P571,+1861-02-02T00:00:00Z/11 |
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- The Illustrated London News 1861
- Percy William Justyne
- History of the London Underground
- History of London King's Cross railway station
- Metropolitan Line
- Circle Line
- Landscapes in the Illustrated London News
- 1861 in the London Borough of Camden
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