January 1, 1970

Of course, trains didn’t only run overground. The London Underground, which first opened in 1863, was the first underground rail network in the world. Steam trains had the obvious disadvantage of clogging up the tunnels with steam and smoke and were eventually replaced with electric trains during the twentieth century. However, in 2013 to celebrate 150 years of the Tube. During the Second World War many underground stations were converted into air raid shelters. The concept of the underground, which was subsequently imitated around the world, has influenced creatives across the century. For example, Ezra Pound’s fourteen-word poem ‘In a Station of the Metro’immortalises the faces of individuals on the Paris Metro.