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ON November 11 the City and South London Railway celebrated its jubilee. The one outstanding criticism of this railway which could have been made was that the designers of the new line built for conditions then existing, and failed to take into account the changes that would occur in a few years' time. For example, the tunnel diameter was much too small, so were the first locomotives, the trains and the cars. The diameter had to be increased in 1922, and extensions were made for the railway between Stockwell and King William Street. It would appear that the railway made too timid a beginning. The Electrical Times, which also began its career about fifty years ago as Lightning, has referred to its earlier criticisms of the railway, and points out that perhaps its promoters dared not venture too far on what, after all, was an experiment without precedent; for the City and South London was the first electric tube railway ever built.
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The City and South London Railway. Nature 146, 743 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146743a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146743a0