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Today, January 10, is the day when the world's first subway line was launched in London
On January 1863, 10, the world's first subway line was opened in London. It was 3,6 km long and had 7 stations.
Today, the London Underground transports more than a billion passengers a year. The London Underground network consists of 11 lines, 270 stations and more than 250 miles (over 400 kilometers) of track.
The driverless Light Tube, which transports passengers across the Thames and neighboring areas, also belongs to the London Underground system.
But few people know that the word "metro" was invented by the British. The fact is that the company building the underground railway in London is called Metropolitan Railway.
Therefore, at first the people of Great Britain called the subway "metropolitan" and then shortened it to "subway". Today, Londoners prefer the words "underground" and "tube" (translated from English as "pipe") to all other names.