Monday’s Friday Reads – 17 March 2025

The Mother of All Inventions… (Roger Farnworth)

Urban Rail in Africa (Reece Martin)

The Saunders Roe Queen: The Cruise Liner Flying Boat: Video (Found & Explained)

Why does Tokyo have Two Subway Systems? Video (Trains Are Awesome)

I Took A 52-Hour Sleeper Train From San Francisco To Chicago: Video (Safiya Nygaard)

The Role Quakers Played in Financing Early Railways (Quakers In The World)

Asphalt Roads are Making our Heatwaves Worse and High-Speed Rail Is The Answer (Streetsblog)

2 comments

  1. One SR Princess mouldered on the slips for many years .. I remember seeing it looming over us.
    Huge by the standards of the time.
    The relevant wiki article has one really siginifcant phrase: “the British government exercised considerable indecision over the fate of the programme.” – quite.

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