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How the Underground Works London Transport by PE Garbutt Softcover
How the Underground Works London Transport by PE Garbutt
Copyright 1966
117 pages indexed
Softcover
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
The Underground and London Transportvii
CHAPTER
IConstruction1
II Track14
IIISignalling and Communications21
IVRolling Stock33
VPower Supply43
VI Stations49
VII Operation61
VIII Traffic79
IXOrganization and Staff91
X Development100
APPENDIX
Some London Transport Statistics115
FOREWORD
THE UNDERGROUND is a part of London Transport, the world's most extensive urban passenger transport undertaking. With its Underground, bus and coach services London Transport, in association with the suburban services of British Railways, serves a population of some 10 million people over an area of 2,000 square miles in and around the metropolis. London Transport is expected to pay its way without subsidy or other form of financial assistance, and to meet the interest and other charges on the capital invested in it; despite difficulties, it has in recent years succeeded in doing so.
Besides being the most widespread system of its kind with five of its six major lines extending more than 15 miles out from the centre of the city the London Underground has another special claim to distinction. It is also the oldest system of its type in the world, the first section of about four miles having been opened in 1863. In the century that has elapsed since then, the system has grown to over sixty times its original size, and Underground trains now run over nearly 250 miles of route. The traffic, too, has undergone a similar increase; the number of journeys made on the Underground has risen from roundly 30,000 a day a century ago to 2 million every weekday at the present time.
The organization of London Transport is complex but logical. The Board is responsible for overall policy and management, and its full-time members also have individual responsibility for groups of departments. The departments themselves are organized functionally, several of them being 'common service' departments serving both rail and bus interests. Each form of transport hag its own separate operating and mechanical engineering departments, the day-to-day running of the Underground being under the control of the Operating Manager (Railways). Construction and maintenance work throughout the system is carried out under the direction of the Chicf Civil Engineer; signalling and electric power supply are the responsibilities of further departments.
The aim of the organization is to provide a fully-integrated system of public transport services for the Londoner, in which each form of transport Underground, bus and coach plays the role for which it is most suited.
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