London’s Human Moles Of The Underground Railway
If you were asked to name the longest tunnel ,in the world in re-, gular use, what would your answer be? Actually it is the section of London’s Underground Railway from East Finchley to Morden, which is 17i miles long. This is one of the facts about the London Underground in a new booklet, called The Tube. Every journeys are made, and the human moles are helped to get up and down by 165 escalators, the fastest of which travel at 180 feet a minute. The air is kept fresh for them at a cost of £7OO a week, for which four million cubic feet of air are pumped each minute into the tunnels. Helped by 16,000 'workpeople you can travel on 450 trans to 260 stations spread over ten counties, two cities, three county boorughs, 49 municipal boroughs, 59 urban and 29 rural district councils. Some 800 platelayers inspect the 240 miles of track during the four hours each night that the Tube is closed.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 59, 2 March 1949, Page 7
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173London’s Human Moles Of The Underground Railway Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 59, 2 March 1949, Page 7
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