Friday Reads – 17 October 2025

By John Bull 1 min read
Friday Reads – 17 October 2025

• Timely arrival: Great British Railways clock launches at London Bridge (The Guardian)

• Old Piccadilly line trains to be cannibalised to keep Bakerloo line running (Ian Visits)

• Other Stations: 226 Garages & Service Stations (The Beauty of Transport)

• Dizzying diagonal digital new screens along Tube escalators are disorienting (London Rail)

• UK Dieselgate trial to start at London's High Court (E+T)

• The plans that could give the UK's busiest station a tube connection: Video (CityMoose)

• Why are so many transit agencies facing ‘fiscal cliffs’? (The Urban Condition)

• The WWII Ruins of Berlin's Most Beautiful Railway Station: Video (Whitlam's Berlin Tours)

• Moving away from aggressive battery-bus adoption, Seattle focusing on trolleybus network (The Urbanist)

• Tehran Opens Holy Virgin Mary Metro Station (Parametric Architecture)

• Japan's Railway Operation Act (KHKQ Beside Trains)

• Anorak corner (tube edition) (Diamond Geezer)

We apologise for missing out on "Monday's Friday Reads" this week. Hopefully today's extra-large selection of links helps to remedy the omission!