English: Section of the Thames Embankment, 1867, showing (1) The Subway, (2) The Low-level sewer, (3) The Metropolitan District Railway, (4) The Pneumatic Railway (intended to link Charing Cross and Waterloo).

Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mi-nating by large open gratings, let into the j)ave-ments; secondly, also, by circular flues, which startfrom the crowns of the arches, and, passing over I which render it sufficiently light by day for lii;; purposes of inspection and work ; the others ha\ cI no daylight, excepting that obtained through llie ventilating gratings in the footways, but provisionj is made for artificial lighting throughout the wholei lines of subways by burners suspended from ilic1 crowns of the arches, and connected with the gas mains in the subways. To afford a supply of! gas and water to the houses, square iron tubesi are built into the walls, between the subways andi the house vaults, through which the service-pipe , after being connected with the mains, are passed.j The provision made in the subways for canyinL;! the gas, water, and other pipes, consists of cliairs and brackets, which are either let into tlic stone floor or project from thfe walls. Underground London.) ADVANTAGES OF THE SUBWAYS. 241
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213 24 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Underground London. As we learn from j\Ir. Haywoods Report, towhich we are indebted for much of the informationhere gi^■e^, it is some years since subways werefirst constructed in various parts of London andelsewhere, and pipes of various character havebeen laid in one or other of them ; but the Viaductsubways were the first in which gas, water, andtelegraph pipes, with all the appliances necessaryto a complete system, were placed in one andthe same subway. The subways of the Viaducthave been on several occasions lighted up withgas and exhibited to the public; workmen haveexecuted repairs, and performed their ordinarywork in them ; and no special precautions havebeen found necessary as regards the use of lightsor fires, no explosions have taken place, nor hassuch contraction or expansion of pipes resultedfrom the variations of temperature, as materiallyto affect either the gas or water supply; and thesystem may be said to be successful. Another important

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