Electrifying the Underground

Name: Electrifying the Underground
Brand: Amberley Publishing
SKU: 9781445622033
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Автор: Graeme Gleaves

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It was a public transport revolution. London had led the world in the development of a subterranean...

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Автор

Graeme Gleaves

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2014

страници

128

EAN

9781445622033

ISBN

1445622033

Enbook ID

02227479

Издател

Amberley Publishing

Теглоt

308

Размери

233 x 166 x 8

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It was a public transport revolution. London had led the world in the development of a subterranean railway system. The first sub-surface lines, constructed by the cut-and-cover method, were operated with steam locomotives. In theory the tunnels and stations were ventilated into the outside air, but in practice they became dingy, miserable, smoke-filled spaces. As one early traveller recorded in his journal, 'I had my first taste of Hades today ...the atmosphere was a mixture of sulphur, coal dust and foul fumes'. The railway companies desperately needed to clean up their act. It was only with the arrival of exhaust-free electric traction - combined with improvements to the tunnelling shield, pioneered by Sir Marc Brunel - that the engineers were able to tunnel far deeper to create London's 'Tube' system. Graeme Gleaves traces the development of the Underground from the early years and through the introduction and development of the electrified system

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