UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD:

Book number: 94731 Product format: Hardback Author: STEPHEN HALLIDAY

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At the time of writing, over 200 underground railways are in service or under construction and here are the technical challenges they faced and the colourful personalities involved in their stories. In January 1863, London's Metropolitan Railway, running from Paddington to Farringdon, became the world's first underground railway. Budapest and Glasgow followed London in 1896 and in 1900 Paris added its Métro. Another 10 cities joined the underground club by 1939, many only a few kilometres in length with some tracks above ground. Since 2001, 79 underground railways have entered service, mostly in Asia with Chinese cities leading the way, in particular Beijing and Shanghai with its 420 miles of track, with both approaching four billion passengers a year. The deepest station is in St Petersburg at 86 metres or 282ft below ground built in the 1950s. From Auckland and Berlin's U-Bahn, Buenos Aires, the Chicago 'L', Crossrail, the Madrid Metro, we travel to Mexico City, Moscow, the New York subway, Pyong Yang, Stockholm, and Vienna, absorbing stories and trivia from innovative engineers and corrupt politicians, earthquakes and morning rush hours to great successes and terrible tragedies. With tales of secret networks and nuclear shelters, Art Nouveau and woolly mammoths, we delve deep underground. New full price. 144pp, well illus. with photos and line art.

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