From the archives: Setbacks on the world’s first underground railway, 1860

2023-01-27T07:00:00

A deadly boiler explosion, half-built tunnels flooded by sewage and an “interminable tangle of timber”: here’s how we reported on the first part of the London Tube network

This week’s archive offering is an a news item on the construction of the Metropolitan Railway, the first part of the London tube network to be built and the world’s first underground railway line. Work had started in March of that year following years of delays and would complete two years later at a cost of £1.3m.

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