While skyscraper offices and elegant apartment blocks remain the public face of most major cities, these cities also have a mass of secret tunnels and hidden pipes below ground which keep everything working. This other world exists beneath many of our greatest cities, forgotten or neglected by all but a tiny number of engineers and historians.for example, there are more than 150 kilometers of rivers under the streets of London. Most have been covered over and, sadly, all that remains is their names. Perhaps the greatest loss to the city is the river Fleet, a once river which previously had beautiful houses on its banks. It now goes underground in the north of the city and flows into the River Thames by Black friars Bridge.the London Underground has 1000 kilometers of underground railway track winding under the capital and more than 100 stations below street level. Along some underground railway lines, commuters can sometimes catch a brief glimpse of the platforms of more than forty closed stations which have been left under the city. Althought some are used as film sets, most lie forgotten. Some have had their entrances on the street turned into restaurants and shops, but most entrances have been pulled down. Interestingly, there is also a special Underground Post Office railway that provide a link between east and west London postal centers
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