From The Kearney Files
The Citizen Wednesday June 23rd 1937
Underground Railway to Airport
The possibility of building an underground railway system for the relief of Birmingham traffic problems was referred to Mr. E. W. Chalmers Kearney an authority on tube railway systems in an address at a luncheon meeting of Birmingham Junior Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
Such a system Mr. Kearney said would bring Elmden Airport within six minutes of the City center, but at present Birmingham population was by no means sufficiently dense to make the venture a paying proposition. A further difficulty would be found in construction by reason that most of the city was built on"an assortment of rocks" and in Adderley Park area there was a fault which might produce complications in the boring operations.
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