The great era of metro railways is just beginning

The shift of billions of passengers from roads to rails is helping save hundreds of millions of metric tonnes of carbon emissions. — Reuters

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.