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	Holborn tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It should not be confused with the Holborn tramway station which was part of the Kingsway tramway subway.
		Holborn is a station of the London Underground in Holborn in London, near the British Museum and the London School of Economics.
		The station opened on the Piccadilly Line with the name 'Holborn (Kingsway)' on December 15, 1906, but the suffix was later dropped.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holborn_tube_station (240 words)

	Holborn - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Holborn
		Holborn (pronounced /ˈhəʊbən/ or /ˈhəʊbɜːn/) is a place in London, named after a tributary to the river Fleet that flowed through the area, the Hole-bourne (the stream in the hollow).
		Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, straddling the borders of the London Borough of Camden, the City of Westminster and the City of London.
		The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was eliminated in a 1965 local government amalgamation.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Holborn.html (310 words)

	Kingsway tramway subway - TheBestLinks.com - April 5, April 10, Boston, February 24, ...
		South from here the subway was built with a steel roof up to Aldwych tramway station and because it was not planned to run a public service further the tracks south of this towards the Strand were used as a depot with appropriate equipment and inspection pits being dug.
		The decision in 1898 to clear slum districts in the Holborn area provided an opportunity to use the new streets for a tramway connecting the systems in the north and south and, following the pattern of tramway systems in New York and Boston, it was decided to build this as an underground connection.
		The Kingsway tramway subway is a cut and cover tunnel in central London that was built to enable trams to connect between the north and south sides of the River Thames.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Kingsway_tramway_subway.html (1149 words)

	The Growth of London's Transport
		Elsewhere, new stations have rendered older structures superfluous, as on the District Railway and on the Tubes.
		A year after the opening of the station, the Chatham and Dover portion was jointly leased to that company and the Great Western for a period of 999 years, on the basis of an increasing rental.
		The latter station was opened in 1860, with the primary purpose of providing a West End terminus for the London, Brighton and South Coast and London, Chatham and Dover Railways.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r054.html (2843 words)

	Rapid Transit In Cities (1892)
		Tramway, or horse-car, lines were then laid, running radially from the centre of the city to its suburbs.
		It is proposed to build an outer belt-line connecting the railway stations for through passengers and freight; then an inner belt for local traffic, also two radial lines dividing the inner circle into quadrants for local, traffic.
		Rapid transit in cities was born about the same time, when, in 1834, John Stephenson, of New York, invented the horse-car to run on tramways, or flat rails, laid in the streets of our cities.
	www.nycsubway.org /articles/rapidtransit.html (11897 words)

	LONAULI - LoveToKnow Article on LONAULI
		Powers under the Tramways Act of 1870 ere given to the council, enabling it to acquire possession of these undertakings, and within the county of London they have been for :he most part so acquired, and are worked by the council.
		Many widenings and other improvements of existing thoroughfares, and extensions of tramways were proposed, and detailed recommendations were made as regards urban and suburban railways, and the rehousing of the working population on the outskirts of London.
		There are few survivals of ancient domestic architecture in London, but the gabled and timbered front of Staple Inn, Holborn (q.v.) is a picturesque fragment.
	87.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LO/LONAULI.htm (18894 words)

	ACW's Insulator Info - Book Reference Info - History of Electrical Systems and Cables
		The output of the station was to be such that it would be capable of supplying current for the electric lighting of the whole area at an unprecedented a.c.
		The first power stations were controlled by open knife switches on slate or marble panel switchboards, and as currents grew in magnitude, circuit breakers with magnetic blowouts to extinguish the arc were added.
		The location of the generating station on the river, some distance from the town, had the advantage that at Deptford, land was cheap, unlimited supplies of water were readily available, and sea-borne coal could be obtained at low prices.
	www.myinsulators.com /acw/bookref/histsyscable (13830 words)

	Lower Edmonton - Trams and trolleybuses
		The tramway along Southbury Road from Ponders End to Enfield had opened in 1911 and terminated in the area of Enfield Town railway station and was mostly operated by the 49A shuttle service.
		Metropolitan Electric Tramways (MET) was formed in 1901 and in 1905 the route was electrified to Tramway Avenue and then continued north towards Waltham Cross over the next few years.
		It is the tramway that was the cause of the interesting alignment of the main road there.
	anidea.co.uk /lower-edmonton.co.uk/transport/road/trams.html (1758 words)

	CULG - Introduction
		Station closures on this date were to allow flood protection to be added to the station in case of a bomb hit on a water main.
		Stations are named using their current name, or the name in use when they closed.
		Station originally opened, but on another route (used where the line was opened or extended to a station that already existed).
	www.davros.org /rail/culg/intro.html (6413 words)

	Underground History - Kingsway Underpass
		During this conversion the Aldwych station was lost, however the stretch north of the new ramp to the old exit just north of Holborn remains intact and undisturbed, with the subterranean Holborn station still there today almost as it was the day it closed, just beyond the shut tunnel gates.
		The tram underpass originally ran from the Holborn entrance, though a subterranean station at Holborn and then down the length of the Kingsway, passing through another station at Aldwych before finally emerging to the surface immediately under Waterloo Bridge.
		Part of the Holborn tram stop had been converted for use as London's flood control centre in 1974, which was in use until the Thames Flood barrier was installed and commissioned in 1984.
	underground-history.co.uk /kwupass.php (2080 words)

	HMS AUDACIOUS
		On arrival 6 pm inspected Station and found the Days engaged to dinner and an invitation for me, so I sent for my things and went with the Days to dine with Colonel Townsend and to my surprise found a large Dinner party, including Col. and Mrs Townsend.
		Drove from Gorey to Courtown, 4 miles, inspected C.G. Station and on to Kilmichael C.G. 7 miles and then to Ballymoney C.G. 7 to 8 miles and on to Arklow C.G. another 7 miles and caught the 5.24 train and back to Kingstown by 7.15 pm.
		Drove on to the mouth of Boyne C.G. Station and on to Clogher W.S.S., 7 miles, where I embarked on board the Colleen and steamed on to Carlingford Lough.
	www.kinghallconnections.com /17-qtn.html (14300 words)

	Subterranea Britannica: Sites:
		When visited by members of Subterranea Britannica in 1996, the remaining section of the subway including Holborn Station was found to be in good condition with the twin tram tracks intact throughout.
		The tracks remained unaltered, though disused, until the final abandonment of London's tramways on 5th July 1952, after which the street tracks were lifted in stages and those in the subway, cut at the approaches, were left as the longest section remaining in London.
		Strand Station was demolished during the construction of the Strand Underpass although traces of it are still visible beneath the up ramp.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/k/kingsway_tram_subway/index4.shtml (747 words)

	CULG - Future proposals
		At the east end the Stratford branch emerges at Pudding Mill Lane station on the DLR (the station being relocated to the south), after which trains would call at all stations from Stratford to Shenfield (except Maryland, which cannot be lengthened).
		Intermediate stations would be at Vauxhall, Elephant and Castle, Borough, Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch, and there is the possibility of an extension to Stratford.
		Conversion to tramway, when traffic justifies it, would then mean laying rails and replacing the double wire overhead with single.
	www.davros.org /rail/culg/future.html (3559 words)

	Proposed Tramway, Light Rail, Guided Bus and Metrro Schemes with no web sites
		This tramway would only cross the frontage of one historical building in the centre of Bath (The Mineral Water Hospital in Upper Borough Walls) and the visual effect of the track and wires would be negligible.
		Overall, a well-planned tramway is infinitely preferable to a city clogged with cars and buses.
		Tunnelling under existing lines from Fareham Station to Lees Lane will make use of former rail routes which currently are used as cycle ways which will be moved to the side of the light rail system.
	www.thetransportal.co.uk /WEBPAGES/proposals.htm (4640 words)

	Subterranea Britannica: Sites: kingsway_tram_subway
		When the decision was made by the London County Council to redevelop an unsavoury part of Holborn and to construct Aldwych and Kingsway they considered using the new streets for a tramway to connect the existing northern and southern networks.
		From Holborn to Aldwych the tunnel was 20 ft. wide with a roof of steel troughing just below the street.
		The rails were 31 ft. below the road surface when passing under Holborn, rising again at 1 in 10 to Holborn Station.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/k/kingsway_tram_subway/index.shtml (690 words)

	Context No.60 - July 2004
		The tiled walls remain at the station, complete with ghostly outlines of the former Holborn "bull's-eye" enamel signs; both staircases up to street level are intact, as are the former advertising hoarding surrounds.
		The crossover just south of Holborn station remains intact, this being the limit of exploration permitted on this occasion.
		Your scribe arrived at Tottenham Hale Station for the free Imperial Bus Co Ltd of Rainham RT operated connecting shuttle bus service, taking a few minutes to photograph the four surviving trolleybus traction poles on the railway bridge (the only such survivors I know of in North London).
	www.colas.freeserve.co.uk /context/60july2004/transport.html (629 words)

	Railway Stations and Church Names
		In general, stations named after towns or villages which themselves have religious names, as distinct from being named directly after a church or similar building in a community, are not included.
		Station opened 1874, Cheshire Lines Committee, with a series of 4 short tunnels (185, 172, 153 and 211 yards; 169, 157, 140 and 193 m) leading away to the south.
		In 1894 a new church was opened at the junction of Springwell Road and Fountainhead Road, overlooking the second station, and the original church became a mission.
	www.sinfin.net /railways/stations/church.html (4754 words)

	The Bus Station - Buses on Screen - Films S
		The street outide the famous Holborn Empire was recreated at Elstree Studios, and the LT crews found they had to be careful to avoid the cables, lights and props on set.
		A later scene at the bus station features a white/grey/red motorcoach and a green and white motorcoach (with a white star on the front) with Chicago as its destination.
		The bus station scene was filmed in Louisville, at the old Union station on Liberty Street.
	www.busstation.net /screen/screenfms.htm (5713 words)

	SAINTONGE - Online Information article about SAINTONGE
		Agriculture (1888) and the Agricultural Experiment Station (1887) of the University of Minnesota, in St Anthony Park, west of Como Park and south of the See also:
		Holborn, and W. by St Marylebone and See also:
		lower part of the city near the Union railway station; the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAC_SAR/SAINTONGE.html (3288 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography D
		He left school before he was 12 and worked at odd jobs on a station, and at 15 years of age became a junior stockrider on a station on the Darling Downs.
		In 1894 he made a world trip studying light railways and tramway systems, and after his return took a leading part in inaugurating the Sydney electric tramway system.
		In a catalogue at the end of the volume mention is made of his modification of instruments such as "Davy's Blow-pipe", "Davy's Improved Mercurial Trough" etc., and he had also patented a cement for mending broken china and glass.
	worldebooklibrary.com /eBooks/Gutenberg.au/Au.Dictionary_Biography/0-dict-biogD.html (21634 words)

	Stanley Fish and Co., books on southern railways, southern railway books, books on southern trains, southern train books, books on southern railroads, southern railroad books, books on southern steam engines, books on southern steam locomotives
		A station might look like a country vicarage and its adjacent goods shed like a tithe barn, but seldom, and never on the London and South Western Railway, was there any attempt to blend the signal box into the general style of the other structures, and it looked like exactly what it was.
		The line today, and its two stations, is still very much the same as when first built, with various small improvements, especially better access facilities at the City end, and it was completely re-equipped with new rolling-stock in 1940 and again in 1993.
		The activities and technical details of the trams and tramway are fully described as are the events leading up to their replacement with motor buses.
	www.stanleyfish.com /newbooks/southern.htm (5247 words)

	SULAIR: British & Commonwealth Literary Studies
		(Deptford pumping station.) The plan of the ground proposed to be taken for a pumping station.
		Report upon Street Tramways to the joint committees of finance and improvements and streets.
		Report to the commissioners of sewers of the City of London upon cast iron tramways.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/britlit/brcatalog.html (11677 words)

	William Morris Society: 2004 UK Programme
		There is an hourly bus service to the Gallery from Guildford bus station, a short walk from the main line railway station.
		Other places can be visited, including the Hockney Gallery and 1896 Tramway.
		We shall have a short walking tour of the area before returning to Spital Square for a talk by Philip Venning, Secretary of the Society, on Morris, Ruskin and the beginnings of the architectural conservation movement.
	www.morrissociety.org /2004uk.htm (5874 words)

	clout
		The site is close to Ebbsfleet Station (on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) that will bring Central London (St Pancras) within 20 minutes travelling time and allow access to Paris in a fraction over 2 hours (see Figure 6).
		Intermediate stations are proposed at Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon and the Isle of Dogs.
		Crossrail involves the excavation of a deep railway tunnel running east-west under central London to join surface railway lines currently terminating at Paddington on the west and at several stations on the eastern side.
	www.cercles.com /actors/clout.html (2850 words)

	Route 259
		Withdrawn between Lower Edmonton and Waltham Cross except early journeys to Tramway Avenue, and further withdrawn between Kings Cross and Holborn Circus Saturday evenings.
		Re-routed northbound between Holborn Circus and Kings Cross via St Andrew's Street, Shoe Lane, Stonecutter Street, Farringdon Street, Farringdon Road and Acton Street, instead of Holborn and Grays Inn Road ie:same as southbound routeing.
		MF extended from Edmonton Green Station (renamed from Lower Edmonton) to Enfield Garage.
	www.busroutesinlondon.co.uk /Routes/259.htm (534 words)

	London's Transport Museum +44 (0)20 7565 7299
		The Holborn tram layout features the disused subway on Kingsway; including the Central St Martin’s college building, Holborn Underground station and Africa House.
		The tram is believed to be the only tramway in the world running on 7-1/4” track, and using overhead power.
		Other architectural models on display include the 1990s Jubilee line Canary Wharf station model by Foster and Partners and the Oxford Circus station model as rebuilt in the 1960s for the Victoria line.
	www.ltmuseum.co.uk /about/press/press_04_11_minuature.html (439 words)

	at cambridge university...
		While at the Birmingham New Street train station, we wandered in W.H. Smith's (bookseller), where I was amused by a little girl, probably about 7 years old, who asked that I please hand her some magazine she couldn't reach and that turned out to be a soap opera digest.
		We made it to the station just in time for Jen to catch her train, but neither of us was very happy about my abominably inept sense of direction.
		It wasn't until I got to the station that I had time to examine myself and realized my hand was bleeding, my wrist was swollen from where my watch had snapped off, and my knees were both bruised.
	web.mit.edu /dchou/www/cu.html (19892 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scientific American Supplement, September 17, 1887
		To-day the only methods for tramway service are three in number: Horses, with a history of fifty years and over; cables, with a history of fifteen years; and electricity, with a history of two years.
		Way out in the suburbs or back in the country by the side of some waterfall, your station might be, while the current is sent to the great city over heavy conductors.
		Normal urine is free from coagulable proteids, though it is admitted that albumen may sometimes occur in the absence of disease.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16948/16948-h/16948-h.htm (17589 words)

	SPSTNS.TXT
		SOUTHERN PACIFIC STATION NAMES The following is a known to be incomplete list of SP station names for the entire system, including that part of the D&RGW that was in existence at the time of its folding into the SP.
		Some abandoned station names are still used in the field by operating employees.
		For active stations, I try to keep the list current, so that the information represents that present in the most recent employee timetable.
	www.trainnet.org /Libraries/Lib002/SPSTNS.TXT (1337 words)

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