Who was the first person to ride on the Tube?
About two million people use the Tube every day. But who was the very first?
Welcome to your weekly free newsletter from Londonist: Time Machine.
London Underground’s been chugging along for 160 years. Well, longer actually. As we’ll see below, the line had one or two trial runs before its opening day, some with celebrities onboard. We’ve dug into the news archives to piece together this forgotten pre-history of the tube. (Oh, an…