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Author Archives: Marcus Wong
Retrofitting a junction for the Northern Line Extension
Retrofitting junctions onto existing underground railways – yes, I’m back on the same topic again! This month we stay in London, as we look at the Northern Line Extension. Photo by sludgegulper, via Wikimedia Commons The Northern Line Extension was […]
Posted in Trains
Tagged construction, London Underground, tunnels, underground, underground connections, United Kingdom
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Retrofitting a new platform at Bank station
I’ve written many a blog posts about how metro systems have retrofitted new underground stations into existing operating railways, and this time we’re looking at Bank station on the London Underground. Photo by TheFrog001, via Wikimedia Commons Bank station forms […] Continue reading
Posted in Trains
Tagged construction, London Underground, tunnels, underground, underground connections, United Kingdom
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Dachnoye station on the Saint Petersburg Metro
I’ve written about above ground Metro lines and stations of the Moscow Metro, but Saint Petersburg also had one – Dachnoye station. Postcard from 1968 The station opened on June 1, 1966 to serve the growing neighbourhoods beyond the existing […]
Crazy tram junctions of Innsbruck
Innsbruck is one of many Austrian cities with tramways, but the network has one interesting feature – exceedingly complicated junctions. Photo by trams aux fils., via Wikimedia Commons Peerhofsiedlung terminus has a interleaved scissors crossover on a curve. Google Street […]
Zürich Selnau railway station under the River Sihl
I’ve written about a few different railway stations located under mountains, but this is something new – one located under a river! Photo by Allie_Caulfield, via Wikimedia Commons The station is Zürich Selnau on the Zürich S-Bahn system in Switzerland, […]
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Tagged metros, railway stations, S-Bahn, Switzerland, U-Bahn, underground, underwater, Zurich
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Underground trams in Vienna
Like many cities the Austrian capital of Vienna has both a Straßenbahn (tram) system alongside their underground U-Bahn rail system, but it also has something in between – the untergrundstrassenbahn or “underground tramways”. Under the beltway The first section of […]
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Tagged Austria, premetro, tram stops, underground, underground trams, Vienna
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Car vs steam train on the streets of Germany
The other day on Twitter I found a video of an odd scene – a steam train driving along a narrow street, then crashing into a Mercedes Benz after the driver decided to pull out from the curb. pic.twitter.com/RU4qQUxvqV — […]
Posted in Trains
Tagged accidents, Germany, heritage railways, motoring, steam trains
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ÖBB switching from left to right hand running across Austria
Trains switching between left and right hand running has been a theme on this blog for some time, and here is one example I’d missed – Austria. When I visited Austria I only found trains running on the right hand […]
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Tagged Austria, left hand running, ÖBB, rail operations, right hand running, Vienna
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Caissons and underground vestibules on the Kyiv Metro
I’ve written about Arsenalna (Ukrainian: Арсенальна) station on the Kyiv Metro in Ukraine before – at 105.5 metres below ground, it takes two flights of escalators to reach the surface, passing through an underground vestibule at the halfway point. But […]
Turning trains on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn
The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn is a suspension railway in the German city of Wuppertal, where trains hang from a single rail built underneath a supporting steel frame. But how do the trains turn around at the end of the line? Photo […] Continue reading
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Tagged Germany, rail operations, railways, reversing loops, Schwebebahn, turntables, Wuppertal
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