FARRINGDON STREET. Planned Metropolitan underground railway. PEARSON 1855'Section through Sketch' The print shows a cross section of what is now Farringdon Road in London, depicting Charles Pearson's proposals for redeveloping the area to include an underground railway, which was eventually constructed as the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway line. Recognising the increasing congestion in the City and its rapidly growing suburbs, Pearson lobbied for the construction of an underground railway