Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . stem of underground railwayconstruction, of which the Metropolitan andDistrict Railways are the most notableexamples, it would have been impossible forLondon ever to obtain a complete system ofintercommunication between all parts. It is. MANSION HOUSE STATION (DISTRICT ). II. SLOANR SOUAKK STATION(DISTRICT KAIIAVAVI. III. TAKINO TICKKTS AT SHEPHEKDs BUSH STATION(CKNTRAL LONDON ). ISO LIVING LONDON. [... ) ^^ obvious that tunnelling which in\-ol\ thebuying and p
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . stem of underground railwayconstruction, of which the Metropolitan andDistrict Railways are the most notableexamples, it would have been impossible forLondon ever to obtain a complete system ofintercommunication between all parts. It is. MANSION HOUSE STATION (DISTRICT ). II. SLOANR SOUAKK STATION(DISTRICT KAIIAVAVI. III. TAKINO TICKKTS AT SHEPHEKDs BUSH STATION(CKNTRAL LONDON ). ISO LIVING LONDON. [... ) ^^ obvious that tunnelling which in\-ol\ thebuying and pulling down of houses underwhich the tunnel is to pass and the closing ofpublicthoroughfares must be extremely limitedin extent. The projectors of the newer st\-lcof tube railwa\s, however, ha\e been subjectto no such limitations. To the engineer ofthe tube railway, as to the passengers whotravel through it,the buildings over-head are a matterof supreme indif-ference. Eighty ora hundred feetbeneath the sur-face, under thefoundations of thehouses, the bed ofthe river, the gasand \\ater pipes,and the olderunderground rail-ways, he wormshis wa\ throughthe earth, leavinga section of irontube behind himat every j-ard ofhis advance. Tothe City and SouthLondon RailwayCompany, whoseline extends fromiClapham Commonto Islington, be-lon
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