Monday’s Friday Reads – 17 March 2025

By John Bull

• 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)