London underground and Moscow metro

Journal of Transport History

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Robbins, Michael ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE; HISTORICAL STUDY; LONDON UNDERGROUND; MOSCOW METRO; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORT HISTORY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, MOSCOW; UK, ENGLAND, LONDON;

EID: 0030842766     PISSN: 00225266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002252669701800105     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. O. S. Nock, Underground Railways of the World (1973: the most conveniently accessible account in English), pp. 175-83; B. Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen der Sowjetunion (Vienna, 1981), p. 47; 'after a study of systems the world over', Transit Journal, 79 (1935), p. 180: 'the personnel was strengthened by a number of experienced underground workers and technicians from Great Britain, Germany, France, and the United States', ibid., p. 182.
2. O. S. Nock, Underground Railways of the World (1973: the most conveniently accessible account in English), pp. 175-83; B. Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen der Sowjetunion (Vienna, 1981), p. 47; 'after a study of systems the world over', Transit Journal, 79 (1935), p. 180: 'the personnel was strengthened by a number of experienced underground workers and technicians from Great Britain, Germany, France, and the United States', ibid., p. 182.
3. O. S. Nock, Underground Railways of the World (1973: the most conveniently accessible account in English), pp. 175-83; B. Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen der Sowjetunion (Vienna, 1981), p. 47; 'after a study of systems the world over', Transit Journal, 79 (1935), p. 180: 'the personnel was strengthened by a number of experienced underground workers and technicians from Great Britain, Germany, France, and the United States', ibid., p. 182.
4. O. S. Nock, Underground Railways of the World (1973: the most conveniently accessible account in English), pp. 175-83; B. Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen der Sowjetunion (Vienna, 1981), p. 47; 'after a study of systems the world over', Transit Journal, 79 (1935), p. 180: 'the personnel was strengthened by a number of experienced underground workers and technicians from Great Britain, Germany, France, and the United States', ibid., p. 182.
5. 'Construction of the new Moscow underground railway', Civil Engineering, October 1935, p. 305; B. Bobrick, Labyrinths of Iron (New York, 1982), p. 272; Nock, Underground Railways, p. 175; Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen, p 47.
6. 'Construction of the new Moscow underground railway', Civil Engineering, October 1935, p. 305; B. Bobrick, Labyrinths of Iron (New York, 1982), p. 272; Nock, Underground Railways, p. 175; Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen, p 47.
7. 'Construction of the new Moscow underground railway', Civil Engineering, October 1935, p. 305; B. Bobrick, Labyrinths of Iron (New York, 1982), p. 272; Nock, Underground Railways, p. 175; Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen, p 47.
8. 'Construction of the new Moscow underground railway', Civil Engineering, October 1935, p. 305; B. Bobrick, Labyrinths of Iron (New York, 1982), p. 272; Nock, Underground Railways, p. 175; Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen, p 47.
9. Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, intro. E. Crankshaw (1971), pp. 52-6, 43, 485.
10. A. J. P. Taylor, English History, 1914-45 (1965), pp. 217 and n., 255, 274; Public Record Office (PRO), FO 371/14833 (20 May 1930) and minute. Ralph Budd was chief engineer and assistant to the president of the Great Northern Railway 1912-18, president 1919-31, and president of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad 1931-49; R. C Overton, Burlington Route (New York, 1965).
11. A. J. P. Taylor, English History, 1914-45 (1965), pp. 217 and n., 255, 274; Public Record Office (PRO), FO 371/14833 (20 May 1930) and minute. Ralph Budd was chief engineer and assistant to the president of the Great Northern Railway 1912-18, president 1919-31, and president of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad 1931-49; R. C Overton, Burlington Route (New York, 1965).
12. PRO, FO 371/15621, N4541/4541/38, 22 June 1931.
13. PRO, FO 371/15616. N5785/950/38, Strang (Moscow) to H, J. Seymour (London), 18 August 1931. Ralph Glyn (Lord Glyn from 1953) was a well connected Conservative MP (parliamentary private secretary to the Prune Minister 1931-35) and a director of the LMS railway but so far as can be found he had no direct connection with the Underground; Who was Who, 1951-60.
14. PRO, FO 371/15616, N7867/950/38, Burgin to Prime Minister, 5 December 1931; minute initialled 'J.R.M.', 8 December 1931. E. L. Burgin, MP for Luton 1929-45, Minister of Transport 1937-39, Minister of Supply 1939-40; Who was Who, 1941-50.
15. London Transport Museum library, miscellaneous drawings, V. 9, 41 and 51: Z/021-50/001. Several of these are in characteristic Underground drawing office style; one, a map of Moscow with street names in English, is signed by F. H. Stingemore, 24 May 1932.
16. London Transport Museum library, Ga.473.61.1; Pick's comments. 10 August 1932, LT document IG.947.
17. Mott Hay & Anderson, letter to M. A. Ozersky, USSR trade delegation, London, 6 August 1932 (copy in LT documents); letter from R. Beresford, Mott Macdonald Group, 8 January 1992.
18. Material from the Central State Archive of the October Revolution and the Socialist Construction of Moscow, files 150, 278, 665; Moscow Party Archives, file 4; State Archives of the Russian Federation, files 5446, 7952; Russian Centre for Documents of Modern History, file 17.
19. Letter from D. Barker-Hemings, 20 January 1992.
20. H. Shukman (ed.), Stalin's Generals (1993), p. 234.
21. Kuhlmann, Stadtsschnellbahnen, p. 55.
22. Information from Antony Bull (who was there), 15 January 1992.
23. Railway Gazette, Improving London's Transport (1946), p. 84; D. Lawrence, Underground Architecture (1994), pp. 148, 192.
24. Railway Gazette, Improving London's Transport (1946), p. 84; D. Lawrence, Underground Architecture (1994), pp. 148, 192.
25. See note 8 above.
26. Letter to Michael Robbins, 14 June 1995, signed by the president, S. Seslavinsky, and the manager of the technical department, V. N. Kiselev.