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World's first metro system - London

  At the dawn of 1863, London hadn't opened its subway system.  London's metro builder roared, digging a hole below the city and started laying railroads. Fun Fact: a local minister complained to the construction company of trying to break into hell. Most civilians believed that this project worth 100 million dollars of today's estimation simply didn't work. But it did. On January 10, 1863, thirty thousand people speculated underground to travel on the world's first subway on a four-mile stretch rail. After three years of construction and few setbacks, the metro railway started to operate. The officials were a bit relieved. They were very desperate to reduce the traffic on the roads. London in the 60s and 70s was the world's largest and most prosperous city and was in a permanent state of catastrophe because of traffic.  Charles Pearson first thought of putting railways under the ground. He had persuaded people for underground trains throughout the 1840s, but th