Question

Explain how the underground railway was able to solve transport problems as well as housing crisis in London in the nineteenth century?

Answer 1

The problem of transport and housing crises was solved by underground railway in the following ways. 

• The London underground railway partially solved the housing crises by carrying large masses of people to and from the city.
• Better-planned suburbs and a good railway network enabled a large number of people to live outside London and travel to work. A large number of houses were built for the working class, most of them were single-family cottages. 
• By 1880, the expanded train service was carrying 40 million passengers a year