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London's Tube, world's 1st metro, marks 150th birthday (7)

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

In the photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, people walk by Farringdon underground station, in London. The world's first subway system marked its 150th anniversary Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, with reports showing conditions way back when were much as they are today: Busy, congested and stressful for passengers. (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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