Sunday Open Thread: Victoria Line Story
by Oran Viriyincy from Seattle Transit Blog on (#2401P)
The story of building London's Victoria Line in the 1960s. It featured new construction techniques, like tunnel boring machines and freezing the ground to stabilize it. There were challenges like retrofitting existing stations for interchange with the new line, including diverting trains into new tunnels by constructing a new underground track junction around an operating tunnel. The line also introduced new automatic train operation systems and fare collection.