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The Tube once needed a guard in every carriage
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Automation is incredibly efficient, but society truly lost something when we fired the guy whose entire career was opening a gate. In the early days of the Tube, an entire fleet of guards had to physically yank the grates open and slam them shut at every single station stop, a tedious system that wasn't fully replaced by driver-operated pneumatic doors until the late 1920s.
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