bronze plaque
Metropolitan Railway bronze plaque
Metropolitan Railway · Underground Passenger Railway
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“Beneath this roadway runs the world's first underground passenger railway. It was opened for public traffic by the Metropolitan Railway Company on 10 January 1863”
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1863-1933
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Baker Street Station, Marylebone Road
NW1
Erected 1963
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