The fifth of a six-part series looking at how technology has shaped the modern city.
Despite resistance from hellfire clergymen who regarded tunnelling as the road to hell, 19th-century planners like Charles Pearson persevered with their quest to link London's new rail termini by a network of tube lines. In 1860 work began on the world's first underground railway.

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