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Civil Engineering for Underground Rail Transport

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Thirty-five years ago Bill Cassie (Professor William Fisher Cassie) used to tell his
students in Newcastle that one of the tasks of civil engineers was to put services
under the ground, including transport. The surface was for people on foot and, in
future, the movement of vehicles would be underneath towns, as with the
movement of water and sewage.

He was ahead of his time; he had written one of the first British textbooks on soil
mechanics and created the first programme in traffic engineering in the UK. His
vision has been a long time coming, in spite of London having built the first urban
underground railway in the world. The spiralling cost of tunnelling has not helped.
However, as we enter a new decade and approach a new century we are surely
entering a new era. There is a renewed enthusiasm for rail transport and, in spite of
a parallel increase in interest in surface light rail, environmental pressures are
changing the balance of advantage towards underground construction for urban as
well as inter-urban systems. London Underground, which had seemed to have
stopped building new lines, is again engaged in new developments. Much of the
link between the Channel Tunnel and London will be under the ground.

British engineers have been at the forefront of new developments in recent years
and Civil Engineering for Underground Rail Transport benefits from their
experience not only in London and on the Channel Tunnel but also in Hong Kong,
Singapore and Taipei. Of course, they are not alone. Several Continental
European experts played a part there, and their contributions also cover experience
in their own countries, including in Budapest, which followed London by building
the first Continental urban underground railway more than one hundred years ago.
This book is about civil engineering, but civil engineering with a very definite and
unique purpose - underground rail transport.

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London : Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd., 1990

Deskripsi Fisik

TF845.C67 - 625.4'2-dc20

Bahasa

English

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0-408-04343-1

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