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Monday’s Friday Reads – 31 March 2025
• London’s Tramways Posters Exhibition (Global Photos) • One Bullet, Two Volts: How Seoul’s Metro Was Born (SY Lee) • Cab ride videos with interactive map overlays of trains, trams, metros from all over the …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 March 2025
• The rejected 2020s London Overground line names (London Centric) • Metros Buenos Aires confirms plan to build long-planned metro Line F (Railway Gazette) • East West Rail: Chiltern Railways Named as First Stage Operator …
Continue readingLR Update March 2025 – Interested in Joining Us?
The following is a public service announcement from London Reconnections: During the pandemic London Reconnections basically ran on a skeleton staff basis. But we have slowly rebuilt our capacity to produce long form content on …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 24 March 2025
• Oxford Street Transformation: Have Your Say (TfL) • Transit Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies & Disdain for the Public First (Union of Concerned Scientists) • Is London’s New Tram-Bus Worth the Hype? The Irizar …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 21 March 2025
• London’s black cabs destined for extinction in 20 years, TfL warned (Guardian) • London’s Most Controversial Bus, the BYD BD11 Reviewed: Video (Network Nathan) • Britain’s Bike-Friendliest ‘New Town’ Is a Model for Car-Free …
Continue readingMonday’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 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 14 March 2025
• Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion (The Guardian) • Oxford Circus – The Wall (London Rail) • 46 555s for Metro (BusAndTrainUser) • Cambridge South Station Construction Tour: Video …
Continue readingEnglish Settlement: Devolving Powers to Enable Intermodal Fare Integration: Part 2
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” science fiction author William Gibson famously wrote. This is definitely the case with public transport in the UK. Whilst London’s intermodal fare zones and payment …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 10 March 2025
• HS2 drives £10 billion west London economic boost (RailUK) • Railways & Canal Tunnels History #2 (London Rail) • Train company performance data posted live at stations (Rail UK) • The World’s Most Stressful …
Continue readingTuesday LR Meeting 11th March 2025 7p.m. Onwards
A reminder to those interested that our second meeting of 2025 is on Tuesday 11th March at the Crosse Keys pub in the City of London at 7.00 p.m. Please note: We now advertise our …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 7 March 2025
• London bus depot decimates a river (London Rail) • First cycle train enters service on the Heart of Wales line (Rail UK) • Call for Edinburgh’s south suburban rail line to reopen to passengers …
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• Channel Tunnel plans for direct links to Germany, Southern France, & Switzerland (Railtech) • The Great Unwashed Bakerloo 72 Tube Stock (London Rail) • New York subways testing system using smartphones to find track …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 February 2025
• HS2 Euston tunnel work put on hold for another review (Construction Enquirer) • First look at unusual branding for the new £2m Silvertown tunnel bike bus (The Standard) • SouthEastern Class 465 in Network …
Continue readingCrossrail: 4tph to Terminal 5?
We were slightly surprised by a fairly recent article in the Evening Standard suggesting that Andy Lord, TfL Commissioner for Transport, wants to at least double the number of Crossrail trains to Heathrow Terminal 5. …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 24 February 2025
• Famed British Rail ‘ship’ has no buyers (London Rail) • Penny Lane was about a bus station: Video (NealBeatZone) • Map of High-Speed Rail in France 2025 (Lars’ Transport Maps) • Chicago’s Secret O’Hare …
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