the building of the Tube

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Kestrel
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the building of the Tube

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... round.html
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Re: the building of the Tube

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Not really the tube, of course. Shows cut-and-cover tunnelling. Originally steam-worked.

The first tube was 1890 - Stockwell to King William Street, now part of the Northern Line - and of course has always used electric power.

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