ISBN: | 978-5-5090-5650-5 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of the London Underground is one of gradual evolution. One section of it was the first urban underground passenger-carrying railway in the world, for although the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in New York City, opened in 1844, is sometimes called the "world`s oldest subway tunnel", this had no stations and was used for long-distance as well as suburban trains.