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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 […]
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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
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Tagged construction, London Underground, tunnels, underground, underground connections, United Kingdom
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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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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 […]
Porta Alpina – a railway station beneath The Alps
I’ve written about a number of railway stations located deep beneath mountain ranges before, and here is another one – Porta Alpina, which was to be located in the middle of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland. Photo by KlausFoehl, […]
Holmestrand – the station deep beneath a mountain
Underground stations on metro systems are a dime a dozen, but ones located on mainline railways are far less common – with Holmestrand station in Norway being one of them, being located 70 meters beneath a mountain. Photo by Peter […]
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Tagged deep stations, Holmestrand, mountain stations, mountains, Norway, tunnels, underground
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Technical platform «Troitse-Lykovo» and tunnel station «Д»
The Moscow Metro has 250 stations across the network, as well two bizarre ones not included in that total – technical platform «Troitse-Lykovo» and tunnel station «Д». Just a carriage long and with bare concrete walls, they are a strange […]
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Tagged abandoned, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Russia, underground, urban exploration, urbex
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Enlarging the tunnels of the City and South London Railway
The narrow ‘tube’ tunnels of the London Underground are known for being claustrophobic, but there was one part of the network was being even more constrained – the City and South London Railway. This is the story of how the […]
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Tagged construction, London, London Underground, metros, railway stations, tunnels, underground, United Kingdom
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Four platform stations of the Moscow Metro
I’ve previously written about the standard interchange station design found on Soviet designed metro systems, and the non-standard platform configurations on the Moscow Metro – this time we look at the four track stations that offer cross-platform interchange. Кита́й-го́род (Kitay-gorod) […]
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Tagged cross-platform interchange, interchange stations, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, rail operations, railways, Russia, underground
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