A perennial and fairly meaningless question that is often asked is ‘what are the origins …
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Friday Reads – 1 July 2022
• 9 more abandoned rail schemes receive funding toward restoration (NewCivilEng) • Northern line Night Tube to return July 2 (RailUK) • Paris beltway to swap traffic lanes for green space (CityLab) • Rotterdam rooftop …
Continue readingReconnections’ Miscellany: Good & bad transport language – June 2022
This month on Reconnections’ Miscellany: Bacronym Retronyms BUS – Bi-level Underground Substitute ESCALATOR – Electric Stair Case (Ascending/Lowering) Allowing Travellers Onward Routing OMNIBUS – Overland Metropolitan New Innovative Bi-level Underground Substitute DRIVERS – Defect-Responsive Independently-Verifying …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 27 June 2022
• TfL advances plans for DLR & Overground extensions (NewCivilEng) • Wales stops funding north-south air route in favour of rail (Railway-Technology) • Lyon announces light rail express line instead of metro (IntlRailJ) • Lausanne …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 June 2022
• Elizabeth Line to Ebbsfleet extension could cost £3.2bn (IanVisits) • German rail traffic surge exposes high speed gaps (PedestrianObvs) • NYC Subway vows to be 95% accessible by 2055 (MassTransit) • The overgrown tracks …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 June 2022
• Map of air conditioned London urban rail lines (GeoffMarshall) • Crossrail’s station footprints (MappingLondon) • Have you spotted the Transport Trust Red Wheels plaques? (Londonist) • New pub opens in Lancaster railway station (RailUK) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 June 2022
• Barking Riverside new Overground station to open early (RailAdvent) • Cardiff-Northwest Corridor tram-train report published (MetroReport) • Traintrackr LED circuit board display now available for some Tube lines (MappingLondon) • 7 potential New York …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 13 June 2022
• Elizabeth Line autumn target: through running & Bond Street opening (ModernRailways) • Lyon announces new express light rail project, cheaper than métro option (IntlRailJ) • Istanbul’s Sirkeci Station 45 years after the last Orient …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 June 2022
• West Midlands tram services resume Wolverhampton to Bull Street (BritishTrams) • Rennes rubber-tyred CityVAL Line B opening postponed for 5th time (IntlRailJ) • 120 years of Berlin’s U-Bahn: podcast (MonocleRadio) • How to literally …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 6 June 2022
• Structural issues halt Curzon Street Station restoration (RailMag) • Loughton, the underappreciated Art Deco, non-Holden Underground station (BeautyOfTransport) • Van Nuys LA light rail line gets $900m in federal funding (UrbanizeLA) • Historians explore …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 3 June 2022
• The art of the Elizabeth Line gives stations a unique identity (RailwayTechnology) • Canary Wharf visitors rise by a quarter on Elizabeth Line opening (AlArabiya) • Grand Central’s $11BN East Side Access tunnel: video …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 May 2022
• London’s imperfect geometry from above: streets, buses, Tube entrances… (BernhardLang) • Victorian 3D paper concertina Thames Tunnel viewer for sale (IanVisits) • The invention of jaywalking (CliveThompson) • NYC speed cameras don’t operate evenings …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 May 2022
• Crossrail finally opens after decades of struggle; photo essay (Guardian) • Crossrails/Elizabeth Line opening: video tour (RMTransit) • Signaling upgrade online on Great Northern (City) line into Moorgate (IanVisits) • Andy Byford: Next TfL …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 May 2022
• Grimshaw’s line wide Crossrail station design (ArchitectsJ) • TfL to expand contactless payments outside London (IanVisits) • Flatpack railway stations are coming down the line (TheTimes) • New battery-electric ultra-light trains designed & built …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 May 2022
• Photos from Bank station’s huge new platforms (IanVisits) • Elizabeth Line added to new London Tube Map (RailUK) • London hosts first eScooter race (Reuters) • Kyiv Metro seeks Europe’s help for spares (MetroReport) …
Continue readingChina’s annual December Metro openings bonanza
It has become a popular pastime among Chinese railfans to get really excited at around the end of December, as that is the period of a slew of metro openings across the country. And being …
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