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A unique Tube Railway.
When the Waterloo and City Railway was built, with the LSWR backing it represented the last possibility of achievement with any likelihood of commercial sucess.The line passed completely to the LSWR in 1907 and was the only Tube railway in main line ownership. It was the only London Tube not merged in to London Transport.It was Unique in having no intermeidate stations, (if we except the short lived Tower Subway), and no lifts.Also it was the only Tube railway on which power cables through the trains were permitted;the only one on which fares were collected by the guards;and the sole Tube line ever worked by Sykes Lock and Block.
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