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London's Tube, world's 1st metro, marks 150th birthday (9)

People's Daily Online)  15:38, January 11, 2013

An underground sign is pictured next to the "Big Ben" clock Tower on July 24, 2012, in London three days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The London Underground train system, affectionately known as the Tube, celebrated its 150th anniversary on January 9, 2013. (People's Daily Online/AP)

Edited and translated by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online

Busy, congested, stressful. This is how the world's first subway system was depicted by London newspapers in 1863. It's a situation that would be familiar to nail-biting passengers of the present as the Tube turned 150 years old on Wednesday.

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(Editor:张茜、姚春)

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