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London Underground to go back to steam age

Tube 150th anniversary: Steam train takes commemorative journey

Passengers don period costume for tube celebrations

19th century steam train travels on London Underground to mark 150th anniversary

Full steam ahead: 19th Century train makes London Undergound journey to mark Tube's 150th anniversary

"It was romantic. You understand all those Victorian novels and the assignations that possibly took place on those velvet seats," said Boris Johnson...

Pictures: First passenger journey on London Underground recreated

The Tube gets up steam to mark 150 years, and we all become trainspotters

What do you call a group of trainspotters?

A herd, a gaggle, a drove? Whatever the correct plural, they were out in greying force today to glimpse the first steam engine to run on London Underground tracks in decades...

...even the singular form of “trainspotter” is not their preferred title. “We get dubbed with it, but we like to be called ferroequinologists”...

But the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the world’s first Tube line appeared to bring out the train lover in everyone across the capital today...

London Underground steam train recreates first journey for 150th anniversary celebrations - more pictures

PS: I know the bloke who drove the steam loco, Geoff Phelps. I used to fire to him as a trainee fireman on the Dean Forest Railway back in the mid-'90s.