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London's Tube, world's 1st metro, marks 150th birthday (2)

People's Daily Online)  15:38, January 11, 2013

Unrecognized by passers-by, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, left, and her sister Princess Margaret, are taken for a walk through busy London streets on May 15, 1939, after their first ride on a London Underground train. They were accompanied by their governess and a lady-in-waiting. (People's Daily Online/AP)

Edited and translated by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online

Busy, congested, stressful. This is how the world's first subway system was depicted by London newspapers in 1863. It's a situation that would be familiar to nail-biting passengers of the present as the Tube turned 150 years old on Wednesday.

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(Editor:张茜、姚春)

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