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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
A tour into the sealed parts of the first underground railway in the world, the Metropolitan of 1863, under Baker Street.
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The Metropolitan Railway opened in January 1863 from Paddington to Farringdon, steam locomotives in cut-and-cover tunnels, and Baker Street's original platforms still have the brick vaults and the ventilation shafts that let the smoke out; the London Transport Museum's Hidden London tours go into the passages and lift shafts that were sealed for seventy-five years and tell the engineering of a railway built by digging up the road. Dates are released a few times a year and sell out.
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