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London's Tube, world's 1st metro, marks 150th birthday (10)

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

Passengers pack onto a Central line underground train at Tottenham Court Road Station in central London. (People's Daily Online/AFP)

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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