...R PAOLETTI The Jubilee Line Extension has set a new benchmark for underground railway station design. It has done away with labyrinthine tunnels, confusing layouts and formless areas with palliative decorations and replaced them with bold, generous, user-friendly spaces where signs are virtually...

...M WINNEY © 1999 Thomas Telford Ltd 1999 JUBILEE LINE EXTENSIONS RAILWAYS UNDERGROUND CITIES TRANSPORT SAFETY CONSTRUCTION NEW CIVIL ENGINEER NCE JUBILEE LINE ENGLAND UK Introduction M. Whney, CEvzg, MICE Now that the h t passengers are travelling...

... of the 39 m deep station. © 1999 Thomas Telford Ltd 1999 JUBILEE LINE EXTENSIONS STATIONS DESIGN CONSTRUCTION RAILWAYS UNDERGROUND CITIES TRANSPORT BOX EXCAVATIONS DEEP DISTRICT LINE RENEWAL FOUNDATIONS BUILDINGS NEW PARLIAMENTARY LOWERING TRACK CONTROL GROUND MOVEMENT TOWERS...

...D BAILEY © 1999 Thomas Telford Ltd 1999 JUBILEE LINE EXTENSIONS RAILWAYS UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION SAFETY PROJECTS JUBILEE LINE EXTENSION PROJECT LONDON UNDERGROUND JUBILEE LINE LONDON ENGLAND UK Foreword David Bailey, OBE The building of the extension...

...R W EAST; R F MITCHELL When construction work started on the Jubilee Line Extension in late 1993, it was due to take 53 months to build and cost £2.1 billion. However, the complexities of building an underground railway through London, coupled with changes in the political, financial and regulatory...

...R F MITCHELL; B S WEAVIN Completion in 1999 of the £3 billion plus, 16 km extension to the Jubilee Line railway in central London will be the culmination of over 50 years of strategic transport planning. An underground railway heading east from Westminster was first proposed in 1943...

... on the tunnelled sections. The construction meant closing the North London line for a year while it was rebuilt alongside the extension and literally sliding a 25001 elevated platform in between two live railways at Canning Town. This paper discusses the complex advance works required throughout the route...

.... In addition to the signalling, this paper describes the trains, lifts, escalators, ticket barriers and platform-edge doors as well as the communication, power, fire and ventilation systems. © 1999 Thomas Telford Ltd 1999 JUBILEE LINE EXTENSIONS TRAINS ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT RAILWAYS...

... Foster and Parhers. Apart from tracks, platforms anda ticket hall,the station was required to accommodatethe elecwical, mechanical and operationaslystemsrequired by a modern rnaw&ansit railway aswell a track cross over. The station had to be elegant attractive and compatible with the modern buildings...

... area has had a signii cant impact on the layout of its underground railway network.As can be seen from the familiar London Undergroundmap (Fg.l),the south-east of the capitalis currentlyvery poorly served.This is primarilybecause of the d~cultiesof tunnelling through the Woolwich and Reading Beds...

...A MADKOUR; M A HUDSON; A BELLAROSA CAIRO RIVER NILE EGYPT AFRICA MIDDLE EAST Construction of Cairo Metro Line 2 A. Madkour, M. A. Hudson, BSc, CEng, MICE and A. Bellarosa A new 30 km underground railway line is being built in the heart of Cairo, one of the world s largest...

...M J RYALL; R STEPHENSON; HODGKINSON; FAIRBAIRN; CLARK © Thomas Telford and ICE 1999 SURREY UNIVERSITY BRIDGES CONSTRUCTION RAILWAYS ANALYSIS DESIGN PROJECTS PIERS SPANS CAST IRON BEAMS THEORY EXPERIMENTS ERECTION TUBES PONTOONS METHODS STRUCTURES LOADS TOWERS...

... moderate traffic flows with a typical hourly vehicle volume of 1000 1500 and a congestion level of 45 70%. Underground railway system Urban planners recognized the need to con- struct an underground railway in Athens, and in the 1920s the first section between Attiki and Monastiraki was put into service...

...G CRIGHTON; A BUDGE REID Hong Kong's new 34 km airport railway opened in June 1998 after a construction period of just 43 months. The HK$44 billion project links the new international airport at Chek Lap Kok and the rest of Hong Kong as well as giving essential relief to the existing mass transit...

... of a number of high capaci- ty roads to serve the airport, as well as the new industrial and residential developments proposed at Lantau. The transport links from the new airport on Lantau to the urban centres are in the form of a six- to eight-lane expressway and a highspeed railway covering a distance...

... of a E12 billion construction programme. This issue reports on the design and consiruction of the 34 km road and rail linl-including the three structures which make up the stunningLantau L i k , the privately financed Western HarbourTunnel, the sophisticated airport railway and the incredibly...

...R A PAXTON © Thomas Telford and ICE 1998 HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY LAIGH MILTON VIADUCT CONSERVATION PROJECT KILMARNOCK & TROON RAILWAY HOLLIS SIMPSON BARR CONSTRUCTION VIADUCTS CONSERVATION BRIDGES PROJECTS RAILWAYS DESIGN AND BUILD FUNDS RAISING FINANCE...

... of expertise and experience. The specifically establishedAirport Authority (AA) and the existing Mass Tmsit Railway Corporation ("RC), both wholly owned government bodies, were appointed to develop and operate the new airport and airport railway,respectively, while a private franchise was awarded...

...D G MCBETH; F HENNEBIQUE; L G MOUCHEL © Thomas Telford and ICE 1998 WSP CONSULTING CONCRETE REINFORCED HISTORY BIOGRAPHY BETON SYSTEMS BETON ARME STRUCTURES BUILDINGS THEORY CONTRACTORS RESTORATION CHURCHES RAILWAYS BRIDGES VIADUCTS STEEL SLABS ROADS CONTRACTS...

... of measurement points along the project roads and shadow toll payments, calculated by reference to the volume of traffic in vehicle kilometres, are then made by the Secretary of State in accordance with certain preagreed traffic volume bands. Railways It is clear from the above examples that risk transfer...