Mapping the Underground Written by Pam Preedy. On the 10th January, 1863 the Metropolitan Railway Company opened the first urban underground railway in the world. It ran from Paddington to Farringdon via six intermediate stations, using a steam locomotive. By 2024 there were 272 stations on eleven different lines stretching into the London’s suburbs as far as Amersham, Uxbridge and the five Heathrow Terminals to the west; Richmond, Wimbledon, and Morden to the south; Upminster to the east and Epping, Cockfosters, High Barnet and Watford to the north. The question…