Charming vintage images of underground travel
Jacqui Agate
12 May 2021
Going underground
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London's first underground trains
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Preliminary designs for a subway system in New York City
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An early shot of London's Trafalgar Square
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A metro station in Budapest
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Boston's Park Street station
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Construction of City Hall subway station in New York
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The first passengers on New York City's subway
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New York City subway tunnels
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Women's carriage on New York City's subway
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A London Underground advert
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A District Line carriage on the London Underground
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A London Underground ticket hall
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A ticket booth along the New York City subway
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Tottenham Court Road station in London
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Inside 1920s Tottenham Court Road station
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Passengers relax at London's Waterloo station
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Ticket stations on the London Underground
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An early Moscow Metro map
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A U-Bahn station in Berlin
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Outside a U-Bahn station in Berlin
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Passengers on the Buenos Aires Underground
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An Eighth Avenue subway car in New York
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A man at a Chicago "L" station
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Early Chicago subway passengers
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Commuters at a metro station in Paris
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Turnstiles at a Toronto subway station
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Passengers read papers on a Glasgow metro car
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Crowds at Komsomolskaya metro station in Moscow
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A subway station in Osaka, Japan
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On the subway in 1960s Tokyo
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Passengers on the Moscow Metro
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The NYC Transit Authority inspect new subway cars
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A subway station in Washington DC
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1980s scenes on the London Underground
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