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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 […]
Posted in Trams
Tagged Gothenburg, left hand running, light rail, premetro, right hand running, Sweden, tram stops, underground, underground trams
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Suvorovskaya – another underground station retrofitting adventure
I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole leading to underground stations built on operating railways, and I’ve found another one – Suvorovskaya (Суворовская) station on the Moscow Metro’s Koltsevaya Line – better known as the Circle Line. Image via Wikipedia Some […]
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Tagged construction, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, underground, underground connections
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Building an underground station while trains pass by
This is the story of Tverskaya station on the Moscow Metro – retrofitted to the existing Zamoskvoretskaya line during the 1970s, while trains continued to pass through the neighbouring tunnels. Photo by A.Savin (Wikimedia Commons · WikiPhotoSpace), via Wikimedia Commons Early history Originally […]
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Tagged construction, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, underground, underground connections
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Retrofitting an underground station to the Kiev Metro
How does one go about retrofitting a station to an existing underground railway? It was was problem that Ukrainian engineers solved in the 1970s, when Teatralna (Театральна) was added to the Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line of the Kiev Metro system. Photo by […]
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Tagged abandoned, construction, Kiev, Kiev Metro, metros, museum, Ukraine, underground, underground connections, urban exploration, urbex
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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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Building blocks of a Soviet metro station
In cities of the former Soviet Union such as Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kiev, you will find an metro networks filled with ornately decorated underground stations, none of which look the same. But if you look a little deeper at the strcture of each, you will find that each of these stations actually have a common set of building blocks that they all follow.
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Tagged escalators, Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow Metro, rail operations, Russia, Saint Petersburg Metro, underground
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Finding your way on the Bucharest Metro
If you ever visit the capital of Romania, then getting around on the Bucharest Metro can be a pain thanks to poor signage and misleading maps.
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Tagged Bucharest, Bucharest Metro, metros, passenger information, Romania, underground
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