Some more (non) 1st world MRT stations to show Lui Tuck Yew again

[uncleyap]

Beautiful & Cheap & Humble & quick to build, and not so screwed up as SG.

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<p>Recently in Kiev, there was an opening of the 50th metro station ‘Vystavochny Tsentr’ (and the 500th metro station in the former USSR). It took them less than a year to build it which is not typical of works of this type.<br />
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<p>Currently, there are two entrances leading to the metro station.</p>
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<p>One of the entrances is equipped with an escalator.</p>
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<p>A passage.</p>
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<p>Modern turnstiles and ticket offices.</p>

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<p>‘Vystavochny Tsentr’.</p>
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<p>It is very unusual to see a clock like this in the metro station. On the whole, the metro station has several non-typical design elements, like the columns near the ticket offices or new direction signs written in two languages, one of which is English.</p>
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<p>A platform.</p>
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<p>’50′ reminds the people of the anniversary status of the metro station.</p>
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<p>Temporarily, passengers will board and get off the train from the same side of the platform.</p>
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<p>‘Running in’.</p>
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<p>This is what the metro station looked like just some weeks ago.</p>
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<p>Alarm system and block system equipment.</p>
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<p>Vestibule construction of ‘Vistavochny Tsentr’ in summer.</p>
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<p>German driving shield ‘Herrenknecht’.</p>
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<p>This is one of the tunnels it drove.</p>
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<p>The rear of the shield.</p>

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<p>The control panel.</p>
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<p>The vestibule.</p>
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<p>Some photographs of the tunnels of the new line.</p>
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<p>This counterrail prevents the train from derailing.</p>
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<p>And this is one of the busiest construction sites in Kiev. Here they are building ‘Vasilkovskaya’ metro station. Several hundred people are working here all day long.</p>
<p>The first track is almost completed.</p>
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<p>They’ve installed new, up-to-date lighting.</p>
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<p>The vent shaft will be located above the tunnel.</p>

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<p>That green light goes from mercury lamps.</p>
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<p>Behind that door, there is an operational metro station.</p>


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<p>This times we are in Moscow exploring ‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya’ metro station.</p>
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<p>This escalator opened in 1954.</p>
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<p>‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya Metro Station’.</p>
<p>This sign has remained since the previous century and can be considered retro .</p>
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<p>With this metro station, Nikita Khruschev wanted to immortalize the great history of the Ukrainian people.</p>
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<p>This metro station is devoted to friendship between Russian and Ukrainian people.</p>
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<p>In 1972, they built several additional passages.</p>

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<p>‘Kievskaya-Koltsevaya Metro Station. Built in 1953′.</p>
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<p>This architecture is typical of the Ukraine of the 17th century.</p>
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<p>‘Lenin’s ‘Iskra’ (spark).</p>
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<p>The metro station is especially rich in pictures of Stalin.</p>

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<p>A picture of Lenin and lyrics of the national anthem.</p>
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<p>The Treaty of Pereyaslav, 1654.</p>
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<p>Pushkin in Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Lenins’ ‘Spark’ (newspaper).</p>

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<p>Lenin declares that Communism is the power of the Soviet Union, 1917.</p>
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<p>Opening of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, 1932.</p>
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<p>Liberation of Kiev by the Soviet Army, 1943.</p>
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<p>A competition between the metallurgists from the Urlas and Donbass.</p>
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<p>Decorated with orders, flourishes Ukraine, the republic of workers and farmers.</p>
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<p>The commonwealth of nations is a foundation for development of the Socialist Homeland.</p>

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<p>Friendship between Ukrainian and Russian farmers.</p>
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<p>Firing a salute to celebrate the victory, Moscow. May 9th, 1045.</p>
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<p>A tractor brigade.</p>
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<p>Fighting for Communism in Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Donbass, 1905.</p>
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<p>Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Nekrasov and Shevchenko in Saint Petersburg.</p>

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<p>The Battle of Poltava, 1702.</p>
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<p>Reunion of Ukrainian people in the USSR.</p>
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<p>Celebrations in Kiev.</p>

 

[uncleyap]

Pay attention to their 3rd rail (power) and their supporting brackets, and compare with our (cable tie wrapped)

Check their tunnel lightings and ventilations. They don't claim any BEST nor 1st WORLD but surely better than us.

:(

I had prior to SMRT fiasco more than 5 times showed these other countries MRT trains system for comparison on the internet. I had also filmed our MRT prior to their fiasco to expose their problems. Did they learned?:*::oIo: