Precedent for a sub-river station

strassenwolf

Can anyone think of one?

jjbrien

Cant personally think of a sub river staion. I know of a a staion under a big pond in Oslo. NATIONALTHEATRET is the station there is both a subway staion and under it there is a normal train staion. In the subway staion it always smells quite fusty de to the pond/small lake on top if it.

mackerski

strassenwolf wrote:

Can anyone think of one?

Charing Cross in London is near the river. During the war, they installed floodgates at the river end of platforms. I think the big fear then was a bomb striking the river bed and breaching the tunnel below.

Edit: Westminster is even closer.

Dermot

wwhyte

mackerski wrote:

Charing Cross in London is near the river. During the war, they installed floodgates at the river end of platforms. I think the big fear then was a bomb striking the river bed and breaching the tunnel below.

I think there've always been floodgates there, ever since they blocked up the turning loop that was there originally. Sorry, don't have the source to hand...

embraer170

Sub river railway stations:

Saint Michel (RER is directly below the Seine. One exit gets you onto La Place Saint Michel while the other on the recently named Parvis de Jean Paul II (in front of Notre Dame Cathedral)

Saint Michel (RER C) is beside the Seine

strassenwolf

embraer170 wrote:

Sub river railway stations:

Saint Michel (RER is directly below the Seine. One exit gets you onto La Place Saint Michel while the other on the recently named Parvis de Jean Paul II (in front of Notre Dame Cathedral)

Saint Michel (RER C) is beside the Seine

According to this, that station was the location for a terrorist attack a few years back. Maybe the perpetrator was attempting to breach the tunnel/station from the inside? Would that actually be possible?

Anyway, any other examples?

embraer170

strassenwolf wrote:

According to this, that station was the location for a terrorist attack a few years back. Maybe the perpetrator was attempting to breach the tunnel/station from the inside? Would that actually be possible?

With a gas bottle, no.
The station was chosen because it's heavily used by tourists.

Victor

strassenwolf wrote:

According to this, that station was the location for a terrorist attack a few years back. Maybe the perpetrator was attempting to breach the tunnel/station from the inside? Would that actually be possible?

To flood it?

You could use shaped charge to make a 'small' hole in the ceiling, but it would need to be big chrge to penetrate reinforced concrete + river bed. It would probably not create a substantial hole and the river bed may actually make it self healing.

Otherwise you would need a vehicle bomb or a military aircraft bomb to flood the station.