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Utility locator tool in use (Perry, Oklahoma, 2011) Utility location is the process of identifying and labeling public utility mains that are underground. These mains may include lines for telecommunication, electricity distribution, natural gas, cable television, fiber optics, traffic lights, street lights, storm drains, water mains, and wastewater pipes.
The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
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4x50 MW. First nuclear power station in the UK. Cambridge [6] Cambridge Cambridgeshire East Coal 7.26 1966? Canterbury [1] Canterbury Kent South East 51°17'03"N 1°05'10"E Coal 4.4 1900 1960 Yes Carlisle: Carlisle Cumbria North West 54°53'25"N 2°56'10" Coal 5.25 1899 1927 No Building extant Carlisle: Carlisle Cumbria North West
Utility tunnel: New Cross Substation - Wellclose Square Substation: 2017: Power cable: Tower Subway Utility tunnel, tube railway, pedestrian tunnel: 2 Aug 1870: Water pipe, optical fiber: Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead. The world's first underground tube railway. A rail tunnel for 3 months only, then a foot tunnel.
Since 2004, Art on the Underground has commissioned artists to create covers for London Underground's pocket Tube map. [1] These free maps are one of the largest public art commissions in the UK. [2] Over 35 different designs have been produced, with designs from a wide variety of British and international artists. [3]
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Printed in dark blue (officially "Corporate Blue", Pantone 072) on the Tube map, it is the sixth-busiest line on the Underground network, with nearly 218 million passenger journeys in 2019. The first section, between Finsbury Park and Hammersmith , was opened in 1906 as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR).