Named individual lines of a city metro, underground or urban rail transit system, considered as an operating service rather than as the system's wider network. Belongs here: any individually named metro, subway or urban rail line. Does not belong here: the transit system as a whole, tracked as a network entity, or the physical rail infrastructure a line runs on, tracked as an infrastructure entity.
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1. Wikipedia: London Underground
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It opened in January 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives.
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