• TfL updates staff uniforms with a new, brighter look (Rail UK) • Piccadilly line to remain suspended between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge until mid-January (Ian Visits) • Northumberland line: another success in the making …
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Friday Reads – 6 December 2024
• TBMs prepare to bring HS2 to London Euston (Rail Advent) • Does TfL owe you money? (London Centric) • Google Street View has added London’s tube stations to its maps (Ian Visits) • Prosecuting …
Continue readingTfL Seeks Partner for Solar Farms to Energise Underground (RailNews)
Transport for London (TfL) is on the lookout for a delivery partner to collaborate on developing purpose-built solar farms that will connect to the London Underground network, with potential for broader connections across TfL’s estate. …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 5 August 2024
• Design Language Basics for TfL’s Digital Displays (TfL Blog) • Making the Multi-Colour London Transport Museum roundel: Video (Hidden London Hangouts) • So What’s the fare? A Short History of Cab Fares in London …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 2 August 2024
• Victoria line crowned hottest Tube line in 2023, surpassing Central line (IanVisits) • TfL board celebrates ‘remarkable turnaround’ in finances (On London) • Rome’s Historic, Wacky, and Modern Railways: Video (RMTransit) • Edmonton Valley …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 21 June 2024
• TfL’s latest railway improvements: Trains, signalling, and station upgrades detailed (Ian Visits) • Blackpool’s first new tram extension in 98 years opens (Mainspring) • HS2: Progress on a grand scale (Rail Engineer) • London …
Continue readingTfL investing £150m for tech capable of enforcing pay-per-mile road charging (CarWow)
TfL) is investing £150 million into a new platform for existing road user charging schemes, such as ULEZ, and it’ll have the capability to enforce pay-per-mile road charging in the future. A new platform for …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 March 2024
• How The New Overground Map Colours Were Chosen: Video (Geoff Marshall) • TfL encourages customers to take a stand on International Bystander Awareness Day (TfL) • Plans to run new direct rail services to …
Continue readingDay Travelcards – Their History, Importance, & Salvation (Ticketing Part 2)
Digital is the mainstream now in fare payment, but it does little for those like on no or small fixed incomes, recent immigrants, those without bank or Oyster cards, people uncomfortable or unable to use …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 December 2023
• Brent Cross West station: The next stage in a long London journey (Dave Hill) • Passengers trapped on cold, dark trains as travel chaos hits west London (The Guardian) • South Western rail boss …
Continue readingIt’s crazy how much TfL can learn about us from our mobile data (JamesO’Malley)
Big Brother meets Big Data It’s a well known maxim in the tech industry that if you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product. We get to use incredible services like Gmail, Facebook and …
Continue readingThe State of Rail: Breaking Down The Numbers
With discussion of ticket office closures and rail passenger numbers a political hot potato, it’s easy to forget that firm data on the state of rail in Great Britain does exist. We take a look at the ORR’s latest figures (April – June 2023) and TfL’s recent Crossrail Usage report.
Continue readingReconnections’ Miscellany: Lord Dawlish speaks! – August 2023
London and South East Region Line Nicknames Transport for London’s Lineage Organisation Brand Reports to Date Metropolitan, Great Northern, and Metropolitan East London Railways Metropolitan Railway shareholders 1863-1933 Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL)[financed …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 12 June 2023
• Inside the project bringing mobile phone coverage to the Underground (TheEngineer) • TfL on track for operating surplus, board told (OnLondon) • Wren by river tour, 1 Sept only (VisitGreenwich) • What every British …
Continue readingSuperloop: Analysis, hopefully not paralysis
Someone at City Hall found the box of crayons. On the 28th of March, Transport for London unveiled a map of a new transport proposal. It featured a colour scheme to rival the New Jersey …
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