• PoopBuffet@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    You sent me down a wikipedia rabbit hole. Technically it is THE Metro. The precursor to the Underground was the Metropolitan Railway and the Underground still uses a lot of the old stations. All other metros are named after the Metropolitan Railway, which was the first of it’s kind.