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Fold down couplers on ‘Thunderbird’ rescue locomotives
I spotted something odd looking on the front of a British diesel locomotive recently – a fold down coupler! SO what’s the deal with them? Photo by David Ingham from Bury, Lancashire, England, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-2.0) Turns out the […]
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 (CC-BY-SA-2.0) The Northern Line Extension […]
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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 (CC-Zero) Bank station […]
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Tagged construction, London Underground, tunnels, underground, underground connections, United Kingdom
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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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Setting sail on the Railklipper
What happens when you send a train out to sea? You get the Railklipper – a vessel built by Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways) in 2005 to celebrate the country’s maritime history. Photo by Edwtie, via Wikimedia Commons Dutch-language Wikipedia has […]
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Tagged Eurostar, France, London, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Netherlands, on the water, Paris, SNCF, United Kingdom
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