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The great era of metro railways is just beginning
Networks have more than doubled in a decade, and few nations are speeding ahead faster than China.
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The shift of billions of passengers from roads to rails is helping save hundreds of millions of metric tonnes of carbon emissions.
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David Fickling
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On a winter’s morning in 1863, a revolution in urban living began.
A group of dignitaries boarded a train in Paddington on the growing north-western fringes of London, and travelled by tunnel six stops to Farringdon, just north of the old heart of the city.
