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unusual facts about underground railway


Underground railway

The Underground Railroad, a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape


Gender mainstreaming

Pictograms and information display charts will feature a male silhouette holding a baby in his arms to advise passengers on the underground railway to offer seating to parents with children.

Stations of the Crass

The album's title is not only a pun on the Catholic rite of the Stations of the Cross (such jibes against the religious establishment were almost a Crass hallmark), but is also a reference to the graffiti campaign that the band had been conducting around London's underground railway system, the cover artwork depicting a wall at Bond Street tube station that had allegedly been 'decorated' by them.

Subterranean London

The London Underground was the first underground railway in the world, and remains one of the most extensive.


see also

Bienvenue

Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852–1936), French civil engineer largely known for construction of Paris underground railway

Ealing Broadway station

The West London Business group backs a Surbiton-to-Brent Cross light rail, called the West London Orbital underground railway, based on Copenhagen Metro technology, which would include a station underground at Ealing Broadway.

Germiston, Glasgow

The underground railway from Germiston was used to transport coke to nearby Provan Gas Works for the manufacture of gas.

Heureka-Klett

Chemikus, localized to Chemicus for the English-speaking market, attempts to teach chemistry by exploring a land whose rooms are linked by an underground railway whose controls are in the form of the periodic table of the elements.

Kolkata Metro Line 1

Bidhan Chandra Roy, at that time the Chief Minister of West Bengal, conceived the idea in 1949 of building an underground railway for Kolkata to solve the problems to some extent.

Metropolitan railway

Metropolitan District Railway, (historical) the second underground railway to be built in London

Metropolitan Railway, (historical) the first underground railway to be built in London

Passage du Havre

Formerly geared towards fish shops and railway modelling (Hornby, La Maison du Train), the arcade was rebuilt in the late 1990s as a modern mall at the time as the construction of Paris' RER E underground railway line, to welcome new shops more in keeping with the Quartier de l'Opéra-Saint Lazare, the heart of Paris major business district.

Tai Koo

Tai Koo Station, a station on the Island Line of the MTR, the underground railway system in Hong Kong

The Old Man in the Corner

The second series (1973) began with "The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway" featuring Judy Geeson as Polly Burton.