London Underground is 150 today

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Happy 150th birthday to the world’s oldest underground train system.  Learn more at Transport for London.  The London Transport Museum has a timeline, the London Evening Standard has stories from 150 Londoners, the BBC features stamps and related stories, MSN News lists things you didn’t know about the Underground, Huffington Post has a collection of Tube maps and Its Life in Pictures.  For information on underground (or metro, or subway) systems around the world, Wikipedia is a good place to start.

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