• Salmerón i Bosch, Carles: El Metro de Barcelona: Història del ferrocarril metropolità de Barcelona.- Els Trens de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1992.

• Salmerón i Bosch, Carles: El Metro de Barcelona - II: Història i tècnica.- Els Trens de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1992.

These two volumes (in Catalan) give very detailed information on all aspects of the Barcelona Metro. They inlude many black & white photographs.

• Transports de Barcelona (ed.): Els transports a l'àrea de Barcelona. Diligències, tramvies, autobusos i metro. - TMB, Barcelona, 1986.

Very well illustrated book (text in Catalan) showing the development of urban transport in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.

• Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (ed.): Els noms de les estacions del Metro. - TMB, Barcelona, 1988.

Explains the origin of station names (in Catalan) station by station (with colour photographs).

• Direcció General de Transports (Generalitat de Catalunya): Metro de Barcelona. Manual de Senyalització. - Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1984.

This book gave the guidelines for the new metro image in 1984 when lots of stations were renamed into Catalan.

• Hinkel/Treiber/Valenta: U-BAHNEN. Gestern, heute, morgen. Von 1863 bis ins Jahr 2000. - Compress Verlag, Wien (Vienna), 1993.

This book is a Metro bible! Includes very detailed information (in German) on all metro systems of the world, with special emphasis on the Vienna U-Bahn (the authors are technical engineers at the Vienna City Council).

• Garbutt, Paul: World Metro System. An Encyclopedia of the World's Metropolitan Railways. - Capital Transport, Harrow Weald (Middlesex - England), 1991.

This book is NOT an encyclopedia, but a good book to start with. The front cover shows the new generation of the BARCELONA Metro trains!

• Lemke/Poppel: Berliner U-Bahn. - Alba, Düsseldorf, 1989.

Well illustrated survey of the history of the Berlin Subway and Elevated Railway. Black & white and colour photographs.

• Gottwaldt, Alfred: Das Berliner U- und S-Bahnnetz. Eine Geschichte in Streckenplänen. - Argon, Berlin, 1994.

Excellent book showing all Berlin Network maps from 1888 until 1990 in full colour.

• Wiener Stadtwerke (ed.): Zeitmaschine U-Bahn. Eine Reise durch Jahrtausende. - Ueberreuter, Wien, 1994.

Published by the subway company themselves, the book shows bright colour photographs of all artistically interesting stations on the Vienna subway, especially on the new line U3 (the "culture line").

• Hood, Clifton: 722 Miles. The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York. - Simon & Schuster, NY, 1993.

Rather a novel, with only a few photographs.

• Ravelli, Robert J.(ed.): Car-Free in New York City. The Regional Transit Guide. - Camino Books Inc., Philadelphia, 1994.

• Cudahy, Brian J.: Cash, Tokens and Transfers. A History of Urban Mass Transport in North America. - Fordham University Press, NY, 1990.

Also deals with tramways and buses and includes a lot of black & white subway photographs of different US cities.

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