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Testing automated trains on the Paris Metro
While perusing a geographically accurate map of the Paris Metro, I came across an isolated section of track labelled “Base d’essais de la Petite Ceinture” – which lead me down a rabbit hole to the introduction of automated trains on […]
Birthday train parade on the Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro has a long history of serving the capital of Russia, so beginning in 2015 with the 80th anniversary of the official opening, an annual ‘train parade’ has been held to celebrate the history of the system. An […]
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Tagged electric multiple units, heritage railways, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, museum, railway electrification, Russia, underground
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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 […]
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 (CC-BY-2.0) The station is Zürich Selnau on the Zürich S-Bahn system in […]
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Tagged metros, railway stations, S-Bahn, Switzerland, U-Bahn, underground, underwater, Zurich
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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 […]
Underground archaeology at the metro station
During my visit to Vienna, I found something interesting when passing through the U-Bahn station of Stephansplatz – a window into an underground crypt. The Vergilius Chapel (German: Virgilkapelle) dated back to the early 13th century, with the Magdalene Chapel […]
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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What happens if you combine a turntable with a train lift?
Turntables are a common sight on railways, allowing rolling stock to be turned around. But the Kiev Metro had a unique piece of engineering at their first train depot – the «Метролифт» (metrolift) that combined turntable with train lift. The […]
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Tagged depots, Kiev, Kiev Metro, maintenance, metros, turntables, Ukraine
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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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