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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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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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Moscow Metro trains on display
Plenty of cities have railway museums filled with old trains on display, but on the 80th anniversary of the Moscow Metro they did something different – they brought the museum pieces to the people. Photo by Artem Svetlov from Moscow, […]
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Tagged heritage railways, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, museum, rail operations, railways, Russia, track machines, underground
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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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Gothenburg tram swapping sides from left to right
In the Swedish city of Gothenburg the tram network has a curious section of track – a diamond crossing that swaps the left and right tracks around. Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the […]
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Tagged Gothenburg, left hand running, light rail, premetro, right hand running, Sweden, tram stops, underground, underground trams
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Want a career on the Moscow Metro?
If you have ever wanted to work on the Moscow Metro, going out applying is easy – there are posters scattered all over the network.
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Tagged Moscow, Moscow Metro, rail operations, railways, Russia, underground
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