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The London Underground Quiz Book
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 3.99Brief Description: Are you a regular commuter on the London Underground? Do you use the tube to get around for business or pleasure? Or maybe you have travelled on the underground during a visit to the UK capital? If so, just how much can you remember about the worlds oldest underground system? Which tube station is the busiest, with 77 million... more...
A Century of Subways
Fordham University Press 2003; US$ 19.99I declare the subway open, said Mayor George B. McClelland at about 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904. His hand on the switch, McClelland drove the new electric-powered cars of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company out of the City Hall station for the ride under Broadway to 145th Street in Harlem. After a decade of digging, New York was moving uptown. And... more...
Twin Cities by Trolley
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 39.95The recent development of light rail transit in the Twin Cities has been an undeniable success. Plans for additional lines progress, and our ways of shopping, dining, and commuting are changing dramatically. As we embrace riding the new Hiawatha light rail line, an older era comes to mindÑthe age when everyone rode the more than 500 miles of track... more...
Cut-and-Cover Metro Structures
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 210.00Because of their complexity and scale, metro structures capture the essential aspects of a cut-and-cover structure. This book outlines the design of a metro construction, and shows the reader how to apply this design process equally well to other, relatively simple, cut-and-cover structures. more...
Underground, Overground
Profile 2012; US$ 7.49Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs and improvisations.Yet it transports over one billion... more...
The Wheels That Drove New York
Springer 2012; US$ 54.99"The Wheels That Drove New York" tells the fascinating story of how a public transportation system helped transform a small trading community on the southern tip of Manhattan island to a world financial capital that is home to more than 8,000,000 people. From the earliest days of horse-drawn conveyances to the wonders of one of the world's... more...
Soviet Railways to Russian Railways
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 148.00In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled rearguard action that achieved a gradual and considered adaptation to the market economy rather than the pell-mell,... more...
The Subterranean Railway
Atlantic Books Ltd 2009; US$ 10.92Since Victorian times, London's Underground has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital and has played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. This wide-ranging history of the Underground celebrates the vision and determination of the Victorian pioneers who conceived this revolutionary transport system... more...
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