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Old October 5th 04, 06:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Piccadilly Pilot Piccadilly Pilot is offline
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Default Crystal Palace solution

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, John Rowland wrote:

Anyone wondering how Tramlink will bridge the vertical gap between
Crystal Palace station and Crystal Palace Parade, might be
interested in the German solution... I think TfL should suggest this
to the safety
bods just to get their reaction !

http://home.arcor.de/guenter.kretzsc...ack_carr_.html


That's genius.

Gets me thinking about other ways you could move trams, though. Could
you fit one on a (specially-built) flatbed in a tube tunnel? How
about a subsurface tunnel?


Been done, Kingsway Tram Subway

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...ay/index.shtml

http://www.yellins.co.uk/transporthi...s4/subway.html