• Bakerloo line extension pre-contracts awarded (IanVisits) • National Highways to stop calling collisions ‘accidents’ (road.cc) • UK‘s new £340 million fully integrated rail, bus and coach station is open (BusAndTrainUser) • Can the UK …
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Friday Reads – 29 December 2023
• More of the new Piccadilly line trains could be built in the UK (Ian Visits) • Regent’s Park – The Station That Shouldn’t Be There: Video (Jago Hazzard) • On demand transit doesn’t work …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 5 May 2023
• British infrastructure agency running out of money says leaked report (RailFreight) • The twenty-six (26!) attempts to extend the Bakerloo line: Video (JagoHazzard) • Deep inside South Kentish Town ghost Tube station: Video (HiddenLondonHangouts) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 25 November 2022
• London bus cuts are themselves cut back as funding found (IanVisits) • London councils unite efforts to finally deliver Diamond Jubilee ped & cycle bridge (ArchitectsJ) • Bakerloo north segment, Watford DC Overground to …
Continue readingTfL Elephant & Castle station tunnelling contractor search (GroundEng)
Transport for London (TfL) has started the tender process for tunnelling works on its Elephant and Castle station capacity upgrade with a pre-procurement market engagement event this month. The capacity upgrade at the southeast London …
Continue readingTube Financial Crisis: Why Closures Rarely Save Money
We take a look at the financial situation on the Underground in general and consider whether closing the Bakerloo line merits serious consideration. One of the more dramatic effects of Covid19 in London has been …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 5 March 2021
• More spent on failed Garden Bridge than on TfL crossings in 10 years (NewCivilEng) • Safeguarding the Bakerloo Line Extension (IanVisits) • Hammersmith High Line competition ideas (HydeParkNow) • Trans Europe Express 2017 video …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 5 February 2021
• You are invited to a 360 virtual tour of Farringdon Station (Crossrail) • Elephant & Castle Tube station rebuild to include Bakerloo Extension (IanVisits) • What’s that London smell?? Mostly exhaust it turns out …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 December 2020
• Govt approves safeguarding of Bakerloo Line Extension route (OnLondon) • Missing Doctor Who London Underground story to be released (IanVisits) • UK Rail to refuge scheme for free travel for women escaping violence (WomensAid) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 2 October 2020
• TfL picks DLR & Northern line upgrades over CR2 & Bakerloo Extension (IanVisits) • Parcel forwarding via Thames launched (TidalThames) • High speed fish shipment (RailwayGazette) • Crustacean biologist obsessed with building a DC …
Continue readingUpgrading the Piccadilly
We last looked in detail at the state of the Piccadilly line upgrades in January, when we revealed that TfL planned to leaseback the Crossrail fleet to pay for new rolling stock. This month sees …
Continue readingDiving into the Fleet Part 5: The Canary Wharf Years
Competition between the City and Canary Wharf, Conservative party politics and the rise and fall of one of the world’s largest property developers all helped define the Jubilee line as we know it today. Jonathan …
Continue readingSSR Signalling And The New Tube For London
We have looked at the New Tube for London (NTfL) before but, with very little officially announced, it has been hard to pin down the details. Thanks to the a presentation to the Rail and …
Continue readingExtending the Bakerloo: It’s Not About Transport
For almost a hundred years people have talked about extending the Bakerloo line. The latest consultation report on doing this has now been published. We look at its conclusions, and explain why it’s about housing, …
Continue readingBoxing Clever: Crossrail at Paddington
With the euphoria surrounding the completion of Crossrail’s running tunnels and the subsequent dismantling of the TBMs it is easy to forget that there is an awful lot of civil engineering construction work still to …
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