History made as steam disappears forever from Underground tunnels
Jul 02, 2019
3 minutes
By Robin Jones
JOHN TITLOW
BRIAN SHARPE
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JOHN TITLOW
THE last steam trips though the London Underground tunnels beneath the city centre, held over the weekend of June 22-23 to mark the 150th anniversary of the District Line, have been hailed as a sell-out and a resounding success.
However, but for the last-minute heroics of four LU train testing engineers, the trips – organised by the London Transport Museum in partnership with Transport for London and headed by Metropolitan Railway E class 0-4-4T No.1 – might not have gone
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