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Beautiful photos & history of the Regent’s Canal.
The “Hackney” gasholders “developers” have a problem, I’m glad to say …. the ground is amazingly polluted & any disturbance will almost certainly make matters worse.
It is to be hoped that they are preserved in situ – a notable landmark if coming in to Liverpool St from any of the “W Anglia” lines, of course – between London Fields & Cambridge Heath stations
Re refurbishing old DMU like Class158 with battery traction (Tangent article on Vivarail)
Will it be really worth it? The last (ancient) DMU of that ilk I rode on the Bittern line leaked like a seive in the heavy rain…I suspect the cost of bodyshell refurbishment in these fleets to bring them up to acceptable or pleasant will be too high to be viable.
(The FLIRTS on the Bittern are a vast improvement on comfort and capacity, even if the seats are a bit harder…much needed.)