Перевести 1. bands were playing and the gentlemen in hats were preparing to make speeches about their great achievement. they made the first underground railway travel in the world - a distance of almost four miles. it was the year 1863 and on that first historic day 30,000 londoners used this new and strange way of travel. now more than a hundred years later the london underground carries more than a million passengers every day. the total number of passengers carried by the london underground each year is enormous, and it is constantly growing.