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Old January 3rd 06, 01:08 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Colin Rosenstiel Colin Rosenstiel is offline
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Default Humps on tube lines
In article , (Paul Scott) wrote:

Howson's book on the Underground [1981] describes the Victoria line
as being built 'on a hump or sawtooth profile'; it is likely that
the Jubilee line was built with the same falling and rising
gradients.

Not everywhere, presumably because of other constraints. The
approach to the King's Cross St Pancras Victoria Line platform from
Highbury and Islington is downhill into the platform.

I'm sure that is implied elsewhere in the text, and with the Victoria
line at KX being the 4th or 5th pair of tunneled tracks I guess there
would be many problems for the routeing of the tunnels past existing
infrastructure.

Indeed.

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