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  2. London Underground - Wikipedia

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    The standard issue tube map indicates stations that are step-free from street to platforms. There can also be a step from platform to train as large as 12 inches (300 mm) and a gap between the train and curved platforms, and these distances are marked on the map.

  3. No Trousers Tube Ride returns in colourful fashion on London ...

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    The annual No Trousers Tube Ride event has returned in colourful fashion as people stripped down to their underwear and hopped on the London Underground. Hordes of bare legs were seen at Newport ...

  4. No Pants Subway Ride - Wikipedia

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    Participants of No Pants Subway Ride inside a Seattle Light Rail train, Seattle, USA, 2015. The No Pants Subway Ride (or No Trousers on the Tube Ride in the UK [1]) is an annual event where people ride rapid transit or subway while not wearing trousers. [2] Beginning in New York in 2002, the event had spread to as many as sixty cities as of 2013.

  5. Vactrain - Wikipedia

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    A vactrain (or vacuum tube train) is a proposed design for very-high-speed rail transportation. It is a maglev (magnetic levitation) line using partly evacuated tubes or tunnels. Reduced air resistance could permit vactrains to travel at very high ( hypersonic ) speeds with relatively little power—up to 6,400–8,000 km/h (4,000–5,000 mph).

  6. London Underground rolling stock - Wikipedia

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    The EVO tube concept design, a lighter articulated train with walk through cars, was introduced early in 2011. [4] In early 2014 the Bakerloo, Piccadilly, Central and Waterloo & City line rolling stock replacement project was renamed New Tube for London (NTfL) and moved from its feasibility stage to the design and specification stage.

  7. The stunning 30-hour train ride that sells out in minutes - AOL

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    The 30-plus hours sleeper train runs from bustling capital Ankara to the sometimes snowy wonderland of Kars – a distance of 1,310 kilometers (814 miles) – with stops along the way where city ...

  8. A 75-hour luxury train ride through the heart of ... - AOL

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    That train stops in Katherine, Alice Springs and Coober Pedy before arriving in Adelaide on the fourth day, some 75 hours later. A luxury hotel on wheels The view from the bottom bunk of a gold ...

  9. London Underground 1983 Stock - Wikipedia

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    The 1983 Stock was the last train to be designed in-house by London Underground; it was the last conventional Tube train in the long line of evolving design since the 1938 Stock. The stock was built by Metro-Cammell to replace the 1972 Mark II Stock operating on the Jubilee line; in turn this was intended to enable those trains to replace the ...