Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . OUTSIDE A .M.^KINE STORE DEALER S. 147. WAITING FOR THE LIFTS AT THE BANK STATION (CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY) INDERGROIND TRAVELLING LONDON. By ERIC BANTON. LONDON is a place of such greatJ distances, and its streets are socrowded with traffic, that the problemof locomotion is a peculiarly difficult cannot drive railways through a greatcity, for you would destroy the cit\ in theprocess; and, pending the arrival of theflying machine, you cannot go from point topoint literally as the crow flies
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . OUTSIDE A .M.^KINE STORE DEALER S. 147. WAITING FOR THE LIFTS AT THE BANK STATION (CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY) INDERGROIND TRAVELLING LONDON. By ERIC BANTON. LONDON is a place of such greatJ distances, and its streets are socrowded with traffic, that the problemof locomotion is a peculiarly difficult cannot drive railways through a greatcity, for you would destroy the cit\ in theprocess; and, pending the arrival of theflying machine, you cannot go from point topoint literally as the crow flies. Butmodern engineering science is making itpossible for us to travel cheaply and quickl\between almost any two points in the Metro-polis by going beneath the surface. Theextent to which underground tra\elling hasbeen adopted in London is very single electric railway, the Central London—popularly known as the Twopenny Tube,because it takes you all the way from theBank to Shepherds Bush or an\- intermediatedistance for the uniform fare of twopence—carries more than 40,000,000 passengers ever\-year, while the Metropo
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