- Hardcover: 574 pages
- Publisher: Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd Revised edition edition (10 May 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1854141511
- ISBN-13: 978-1854141514
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,260,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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574pp, illustrated in b&w. A chronologically presented history covering a century of development from the earliest schemes to the Docklands Light Railway.
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Factually correct, but spellbindingly told,
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This review is from: Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways (Hardcover)
A truly all encompassing biography of the conception, birth, and evolution of Londons tube system. The book immediatley informs readers that it is not concerned with the earlier construction of the "cut and cover" lines, such as the Metropolitain and District lines, but concentrates on the deep level "tube" lines constructed by miners using Greathead Shields, and cast iron linings to burrow their way under London. The authors have mixed contemporory reports of finance, engineering, and technological difficulties in building the system, along with the great characters that drove the plan along. London readers may be greatly surprised to find that an American, Charles Yerkes, was largly instrumental in the systems conceptualisation and commercialisation. The authors take us on a trip from the Thames Tunnel, the forerunner of Tower Bridge, right up to the (almost) present day Underground network as we now know it. Some of the minutae of finance is a little too much for an interesting read, but this is greatly overweighed but the otherwise fascinating account of how London came to have its famous tube system.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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The ultimate history of London's deep-level tubes,
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This review is from: Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways (Hardcover)
When speaking of the Underground ('subway' to Americans), Londoners distinguish between the cut-and-cover lines such as the Metropolitan and Circle Lines, which were built just below street level to handle mainline-size trains, as opposed to the deep-level tubes, in which small-profile trains travel through tight tunnels with only a few inches to spare. This book is the ultimate history of London's deep-level tubes, such as the Northern, Piccadilly, Central, and Victoria Lines.After some historical introductory material, the authors begin with the first tube train in 1890, which today functions as part of the Northern Line. Every aspect of the history of this system is discussed in detail, including rolling stock, station design, political issues, finances, planning decisions, and accidents. The book is arranged in chronological order, with approximately 200 b&w photos and diagrams. To give some idea of the book's span of coverage, the Jubilee extension through Canary Wharf is discussed, but hadn't opened at the time the book was written. I thought this book was superb, but the enormous amount of detail is suitable only for the dedicated subway fan. |
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