* 1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.

The second stage, opened in 1999, was a 3 km-long tunnel linked to the first one, allowing the new " underground railway station of Monaco-Monte Carlo " to open.

* 1987 – King's Cross fire: in London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.

Entrance hall ( one of two ) of the new underground regional train station ( Berlin Potsdamer Platz railway station | Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz ) in 2005.

A new underground main-line station or Regionalbahnhof ( Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz ) has also been constructed, opened on 26 July 2006.

* Reichstag ( Berlin U-Bahn ), the underground station at the Reichstag building

* Seven Sisters, London, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name

** Seven Sisters station, a rail station and underground ( tube ) station at Tottenham, London

Beck was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only the topology of the railway mattered.

* The film Die Hard with a Vengeance has a plot involving thieves breaking into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and stealing most of the gold bullion stored underground by driving dump trucks through a nearby Wall Street subway station.

** Kings Cross railway station, Sydney an underground railway station in Sydney

This would be the excuse for all sorts of happenings, such as the two-man inter-rabbi bobsleigh championships ( to be held on the down escalator at Leicester Square underground station — weather and platform tickets permitting ), Formation Goat Nadgering, Paso Doble Jockey Wagging, Floodlit Horse Massage, and Nark Fettering on Ice, and reports of the latest activities of the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog ( or Basketball, or Judo ) Team.

In 2006 and 2007, the area surrounding the railway station was completely renovated: a new bus terminal and an underground bicycle parking lot were constructed, and the main road leading from the railway station to the city centre was turned into a road for pedestrians and cyclists only.

The Albury-Wodonga Community Radio station play a large amount of speciality programs including those for the retiree, ethnic and aboriginal communities throughout the day and a range of musical styles including underground and independent artists from 8: 00pm onwards.

The ash also entered streams and was washed into the penstocks and turbines of the Rangipo underground HEP station causing rapid corrosion on the turbine blades which had to be rebuilt.

The attacks on the V-weapon experimental station at Peenemunde, however, were not effective ; V-l was already in production near Kassel and V-2 had also been moved to an underground plant.

Beneath the shopping precinct lies the underground station Châtelet-Les-Halles, a central hub of Paris's express commuter rail system, the RER.

Three lines leading out of the city to the south, east and west were to be extended and connected in a new underground station.

* Castro Street Station, a Muni Metro underground station in San Francisco

A large new airport terminal building was opened in 2008 with excellent facilities, including a huge underground carpark.

It incorporates the oldest section of underground railway in the world, which opened in 1863 and now forms part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines ; and the first line to operate electric trains, in 1890, now part of the Northern line.

* Edgar Speyer, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL, forerunner of the London Underground ) from 1906 to 1915, a period during which the company opened three underground railway lines, electrified a fourth and took over two more.

* The third underground line is the Airport Line, which opened in 2000, prior to the Sydney Olympics.

The underground, three-level, United States Capitol Visitor Center ( CVC ) opened on December 2, 2008.

An underground tunnel ( consisting of a passenger walkway and moving sidewalks ) which links the main terminal and concourse B was opened in 2004.

* February 15 – The Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened.

The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when the damaged wall of a utility tunnel beneath the Chicago River opened into a breach which flooded basements and underground facilities throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated of water.

In 1983, the VAL, the world's first automated rapid transit underground network, was opened.

The first deep level London ' tube ' underground line was ' The City and South London Railway ', now the City Branch of the Northern Line, opened in 1890, running from King William Street through Borough to Stockwell.

The discovery and use of water held underground in the Great Artesian Basin opened up thousands of square miles of country away from rivers in inland New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, previously unavailable for pastoral activities.

The Clem Jones Tunnel, opened in 2010, is the river's first underground crossing for road transport.

The new underground space was opened as the Weston Link in August 2004.

The Waterloo & City line ( unofficially known as the Drain ) is a short underground railway line in London, opened on 11 July 1898.

The Forum des Halles, a partially underground multiple story commercial and shopping center, opened in 1979 and remains there today.

In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway opened the world's first underground line between Paddington and Farringdon Street with wooden carriages and steam locomotives.

In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon Street, connecting Great Western Railway's relatively remote terminus at Paddington with Euston and King's Cross stations and the City.

It was formerly part of the Metropolitan line and incorporates the oldest underground railway in the world, the section between Paddington and Farringdon, opened on 10 January 1863.

The section between Paddington and Farringdon, the world's first underground railway had opened the previous year in 1863.

The first underground station at Waterloo was opened on 8 August 1898 by the Waterloo & City Railway ( W & CR ), a subsidiary of the owners of the main line station, the London and South Western Railway ( L & SWR ).

Australia ’ s first fully operational uranium mine was opened at Rum Jungle, and underground mining occurred from 1950 to 1953.

Many underground coal mines were opened near Waltonville.

* 1831: the first deep underground anthracite coal mine in America was opened here in 1831 just West of the Seventh Avenue crossing on the Delaware & Hudson tracks.