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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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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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Hidden tracks of the Kiev Metro
The Kiev Metro is a relatively simple system – three independent metro lines running across the city, with passengers changing between them at one of three interchange stations. However trains do have a way of making their way between the […]
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Tagged Kiev, Kiev Metro, metros, mystery, rail operations, railways, service connecting branches, tunnels, Ukraine, underground, urban exploration
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Catching the train deep under the Apennines
A major link in the Italian rail network is the 18.5 kilometre long Apennine Tunnel, passing under the Apennine Mountains to connect the railways of north Italy with those of Tuscany and central Italy. But it is notable for more […]
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Tagged Apennine Tunnel, deep stations, ghost stations, Italy, mountain stations, Precedenze station, rail operations, rail signalling, tunnels, underground
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Barbed wire and guard towers protecting the bridges and tunnels of the Russian Railways
On my journey across Russia by train I passed through many tunnels and over many bridges, and noticed something strange at each one.
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Tagged bridges, mystery, police, Russia, Russian Railways, security, tunnels
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