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# Borough Tube Station Standing at this corner of Borough High Street, you're positioned at the exact threshold where London's underground revolution began—the very entrance that welcomed the first passengers stepping into the world's first electric underground railway on November 18, 1890. This pr...

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Borough Tube Station This was a station of the City and South London Railway that opened in 1890. The line was the world's first underground electric railway, London's first deep tunnel 'tube', and the first purpose-built railway tunnel under the Thames. In 1891 over 5 million passengers used the line. After reconstruction in 1922, the original entrance was relocated to its present corner site. During World War II a tube spur below was used as an air raid shelter for up to 14,000 persons.