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	Sydney underground railways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The railways are run by CityRail, an agency of the government of New South Wales.
		Because the original underground lines were built in conjunction with the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a decision was made to have the lines in shallow tunnels so as to minimise the height difference between the underground rails and their extension across the bridge.
		The third underground line is the Airport Line, which opened in the year 2000, prior to the Sydney Olympics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_subway_system (792 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sydney underground railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bondi Junction is a CityRail underground railway station at Sydneys Bondi Junction and is the eastern terminus of the Eastern Suburbs railway.
		A railway platform is a section of pathway, alongside rail tracks at a train station, metro station or tram stop, at which passengers may board or alight from trains or trams.
		Redfern railway station is a major railway station in Redfern which is to the south of the Sydney city centre.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sydney-underground-railways (2646 words)

	The Glasgow Underground
		Glasgow has the distinction of possessing the only underground railway in the world that was originally planned for operation by cable traction, and the only one that has used this method of working continuously from its opening until its recent electrification.
		The promoters of the railway decided from the outset that the steam locomotive was unsuitable for underground working; but for some time, as happened to so many of the earlier railways in this country, they could come to no conclusion regarding the type of motive power most fit to be employed.
		The railway has always been handicapped by certain features of design and equipment that place special difficulties in the way of operation, and cannot be done away with save at prohibitive cost.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r048.html (1990 words)

	Railways as World Heritage Sites
		Railways were not the only technology to further the process of imperialism: the steamship, the telegraph, and new medicines such as quinine were also important.
		Railway companies frequently came to own canals, while the transfer of technologies between the different modes occurred regularly, especially during the construction phase: railway lines were built by teams of men known in Britain and elsewhere as ‘navvies’ — derived from the name ‘navigator’ that groups of labourers acquired while building inland waterways.
		Railway construction on the plains between 1858 and 1878, partly by the broad-gauge Eastern Bengal Railway (EBR) and partly by the metre-gauge state-owned Northern Bengal Railway (NBR), connected Calcutta with Siliguri, at the foot of the Himalaya.
	www.icomos.org /studies/railways.htm (14146 words)

	Metro Arts and Architecture - Metro Bits - mic-ro.co(s)m (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some of the early underground and elevated stations represent a style of metro architecture which was somewhat pioneering back then.
		London Underground ('Tube') was the world's first metro, and the first one to have a corporate design.
		Underground station architecture, surface-station furniture, signage and typography are quite consistent in their cool minimalistic elegance.
	mic-ro.com /metro/metroart.html (3624 words)

	Underground Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		London Underground operate nearly 400 route miles of underground railway line, the majority of which is double track.
		Perhaps surprisingly, less than 50% of this is actually underground, a statistic which owes much to the system's expansion during the 1930's and 1940's when the network expanded into the suburbs over the branch lines of the mainline railway companies.
		Most of the underground lines are deep level tubes which currently extend for nearly 140 route miles (this will increase when the Jubilee extension comes into use in 1999) with just 32 miles of sub-surface lines built by the original "cut and cover" method.
	www.londonrailways.net /facts.htm (940 words)

	A History of the London Tube Maps
		It shows both the District Railway and the Metropolitan lines and their completed Circle line, which resulted from a joint effort by the two companies to link their lines to complete a ring, opened just four years earlier in late 1884; at this time no other underground railways had yet been opened.
		Referring to the underground as the "tube" had been used in a number of earlier underground maps but the picture on the front cover of this map, sponsored by the London newspaper "Evening News", coveys the true concept of why it was known as the tube.
		The Underground management was a little unsure of how the public would take to such a revolutionary change in the design and a note on the front cover of a trial run of the map (seen in the edition shown), invited people to send their comments to the Publicity Manager.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /clivebillson/tube/tube.html (6168 words)

	Sydney underground railways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sydney's underground railways do not form a true metro, because they are extensions of suburban main line services and are not a completely segregated system.
		In this way Sydney's railways can be considered a hybrid system.
		Sydney has at present three main underground lines; a fourth is currently under construction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_underground_railways (792 words)

	Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on London Underground Railways; ...
		Whether the lines of route for underground railways in and near London, proposed by Bills which have been or may be introduced during the present Session, are best calculated to afford facilities for present and probable future traffic; and, if not, what modifications of those lines of route are desirable; 2.
		Underground railways are the best means of dealing with London's present and future traffic, and should run from well-recognized centres of traffic to other such centres and to district from which from which large numbers of people must be carried to work.
		An early enquiry should be made by the Board of Trade into systems of underground locomotion by subways or shallow tunnels immediately under the surface of the roadways, as developed on the Continent and in Americ.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref7215.html (470 words)

	Beach Pneumatic : 9
		The large majority of the opponents of the tunnel railways will be found to consist of real estate speculators, jobbers, men with axes to grind to the detriment of the public grindstone, and the large class of local politicians whose interest lies in the total abnegation of economy and convenience.
		The central underground having received an adverse report in the Senate, and a motion to agree with the report having been voted down, it lies on the table ready to be called up at any time, the report disagreed with, and the bill referred to the committee of the whole.
		Scientific American, not editorially in favor of steam locomotives in underground railways, noted in July that it might have been expected that the company would be compelled to provide for the necessary ventilation, by side shafts and chimneys built on their own property so as not to encumber public streets.
	www.columbia.edu /~brennan/beach/chapter9.html (10630 words)

	Underground Railway
		Paxton was correct as regarded everyday behavior; the middle-class Londoner still considered the underground in general as the province either of a separate population of persons habitually suited to it, whether workers or criminals, or of a hidden infrastructure not suitable for any persons at all.
		The Underground Railway literalizes the image of the empty city; the innocuous passenger beside one is cast in the image of one of Feuillade's serial Vampires, ready to strike at any moment out of the most harmless of appearances.
		The ironic tone should not distract the reader from the fact that the Underground journey in fact initiates Laura into a new perspective on life, including the discovery that her sister is conducting an illicit affair.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /london/Archive/On-line-pubs/2001/paper5.html (3261 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Birth of London's Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The job of constructing such a railway would be deemed an intricate one even today; but it was done successfully, for the original massive brickwork is still in good condition.
		The controlling group of shareholders of the District Railway stock had turned to him for financial help, and their negotiations resulted in the formation of the Metropolitan District Electric Traction Co. Ltd, a move which improved the District's financial position and gave it equal bargaining powers with the Metropolitan Railway.
		It was as if the authorities wished to wipe the memories of steam trains from the minds of their passengers, for stations and tunnels were thoroughly cleaned of accumulated layers of soot and grime, and there was much repainting of both lines as soon as possible afterwards.
	www.casebook.org /victorian_london/tubes.html (2476 words)

	Railway Technology - VAE - Points Technology for Railways, Underground Railways and Tramways
		VAE is the world market leader in turnout technology for railways, underground railways and tramways.
		This corporate siting policy ensures proximity to customers and an optimised response to the specific requirements of railway organisations and track operators as well as providing broad experience of all loading and speed conditions.
		Whole railway stations and even entire stretches of rail track can be monitored centrally in this manner.
	www.railway-technology.com /contractors/turnouts/vae (647 words)

	HSE Railways Annual Report - Underground railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Acceptance of the London Underground Limited (LUL) railway safety case (RSC) given by HSE in July 2002.
		The move to the London Underground Limited (LUL) public private partnership (PPP) status was completed.
		HMRI inspectors carried out over 30 unannounced visits to LUL stations and depots during the firefighter strike in late 2002 and early 2003, to ensure LUL’s plans were implemented properly.
	www.hse.gov.uk /railways/annualreport0203/underground.htm (218 words)

	Atmospheric and Pneumatic Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Pneumatic Dispatch Railway, as it became known, operated until 1874, but at this point the Post Office decided that the time saving wasn't worth the cost, not to mention the risk of a vehicle becoming stuck in the tube.
		It was also possible, as had been done on the pneumatic railways, to use both positive pressure (on the order of 1 atmosphere) and vacuum, to drive the capsules both ways from a single pumping station.
		As well as the atmospheric and pneumatic railways and their cousin the pneumatic dispatch tube, there was a fourth way that air pressure was used to move people or freight.
	www.davros.org /rail/atmospheric.html (3397 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The regulations governing the unification of the underground railway are codified in the tables UNI-UNIFER or UNI-CEI, which deal with all of the infrastructures on iron such as: railways, trams, trolley lines and cable-ways.
		This chapter on the underground railway contains fifty or so titles ranging from the sizing of the cars and the platforms to provisions concerning signaling and lighting and technical systems.
		In particular articles UNI 7508, 7744 and 9406 will be examined here insofar as they concern more directly the engineering directives of the station, while the aspects relevant to the geometry of the alignment or to the sizing of the motor coaches are of obvious engineering interest.
	www.materia.it /materia/normativaScheda?id=0112376587&magic=1515293978 (465 words)

	Underground History - Disused Stations on London's Underground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since moving to live near London a few years ago, one of my interests has been the London Underground, one of the world's oldest and busiest underground railway networks.
		I'm not a train spotter by any means, but I find the history and background of London's subterranean railway fascinating.
		One of the things I find most interesting is the changing history of the railway, of which there is still much hidden evidence.
	underground-history.co.uk (170 words)

	London Underground Articles
		Useful facts on travel times of the London Underground at Xmas and New Year, plus a few hints on travelling on the tube in the festive season.
		Second part of little known facts and figures on the London Underground and what this means for your journey.
		The history of the London Underground Map and how the poor designer who originated it was never fully rewarded for his efforts.
	www.suite101.com /articles.cfm/london_underground (519 words)

	Signal Boxes of the London Electric Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The London Electric Railways (also knpwn as the Underground Group) managed a number of underground railways, most of which had no structures as such for their signal boxes.
		Signal boxes were built by the London Electric railway to this design form 1905 onwards.
		London Electric Railways became part of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.
	www.signalbox.org /gallery/le.htm (123 words)

	The World's longest tunnel Page - Rack-Railway Tunnels"
		Bulnes is a village in the Picos de Europa mountains, 20 km away from the north shore of Spain between Gijón and Santander.
		The tunnel starts at 2320 m and ends in an underground station at 3454 m.
		This is now used as a museum railway with steam locomotives, the tunnel on the top 1874 m, altitude 2117-2160 m, first opening 1914, 1982 closed because of opening of Furka Base Tunnel (15.381 m), old rail reopened on 14.07.2000 for tourism.
	home.no.net /lotsberg/data/rack-rail.html (252 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The London Underground: A diagrammatic history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a map of the London Underground showing exactly when every line (and segment of line) and every station was opened and any subsequent closures, as well as all the changes in station names.
		Overall, I found this a very good introduction to the London Underground, although it may be best appreciated in conjunction with a historical account (we found John Glover's "London's Underground" an excellent companion book).
		This book is a must have for anyone studying the history of the London Underground as it clearly shows what happened and makes it much easier to see and understand.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1854142194 (771 words)

	Underground
		F/F. A standard history of the London Underground.
		Traces the history of the Underground through its buildings.
		A history of the distinctive 4-4-0 condensing tanks used on the Metropolitan Railway.
	members.aol.com /gbsteven/underground.htm (117 words)

	TrainBooks.co.uk - No Need to Ask! Early Maps of London's Underground Railways (Hardcover)(buy new from £12.95 or used ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Early Maps of London's Underground Railways (Hardcover)(buy new from £12.95 or used from £11.00) by David Leboff; Tim Demuth;
		I must confess that I found the opening pages a little frustrating, dealing as they do with the history of printing and lithographic techniques rather than the actual subject matter of the book, but I persisted and was amply rewarded.
		An excellent book tracing the development of the underground in the early years through the use of the various maps published by the companies.
	www.trainbooks.co.uk /product.php/1854142151 (261 words)

	London Underground
		If you're coming to this guide expecting articles written by a trainspotter or someone into maps, pictures of trains or any other teccy details you'll be disappointed.
		What you'll find is an observation of what life is like on the London Underground and I'll introduce you to the people, animals and sights and sounds on the London Underground, or the Tube as it is known to locals.
		Much of this life you will see on my personal website www.goingunderground.net which is a good place to go next if you like the articles here particularly more up to date ones.
	www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/london_underground (498 words)

	UrbanRail.Net > Books on Subways and Metros
		Christian Wolmar: The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever.
		Underground Railways - yesterday today tomorrow - from 1863 to 2010.
		The Underground Railways of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao.
	www.urbanrail.net /metrolit.htm (3662 words)

	See How They Run: Timezones and Transport
		San Francisco Muni Metro: a dynamic map: Piers Connor of the Railway Technical Web Pages describes thus - "It is a diagram of the tunnel section of the light rail system under Market Street between Embarcadero and the station beyond Van Ness.
		British railway map: shows every passenger and freight line but unfortunately doesn't show stations!
		London Underground Railway Society - hold a monthly meeting and produce a monthly booklet
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/7069 (773 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amazon.ca: Books: A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways
		An impressively informative work by transportation historian Brian J. Cudahy, A Century Of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years Of New York's Underground Railways tells of the amazing and critically important history of subway systems as a remarkable technological achievement in mass transportation which legendary for its practicality.
		Top of Page : A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0823222926 (721 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: No Need to Ask! Early Maps of London's Underground Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Early Maps of London's Underground Railways with Mr.
		The London Underground: A diagrammatic history; Paperback ~ Douglas Rose
		Abandoned Stations on London's Underground: A Photographic Record; Paperback ~ Jim Connor
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1854142151 (343 words)

	General Page 1
		Rare and out-of-print books on railways, maritime and commercial vehicles;
		Great Railway Journeys Of The World Frayn, Michael; Kennedy, Ludovic; Kington, Miles; Palin, Michael; Robson, Eric; Thompson, Brian and Wood, Michael
		Great Railway Journeys Of The World Laughton, Roger and Others
	www.gtcarterbooks.co.nz /Railways/R_General1.htm (170 words)

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