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The 2024 London Reconnections Christmas Quiz
It’s that time of year and so here is the 2024 London Reconnections Christmas Quiz. 2024 was significant for your quizmaster as it was his first full year of retirement and, also, an increasingly debilitating …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 29 November 2024
• The Map House and its Tube Maps (London Rail) • Naming the Overground – The Windrush line: Podcast (Mind the Gap: The Official TfL Podcast) • Row threatening to derail new train services between …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 November 2024
• The London Overground rebrand is finally happening (London Centric) • A women’s history guided tour along London’s Suffragette line (The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything) • Renaming the Overground, step by step (Diamond Geezer) …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 18 November 2024
• The inside story of the Transport for London cyberattack (London Centric) • Green signal given for first UK co-operatively owned railway service (The Guardian) • Caltrain’s electrification project is paying off big-time (SFGate) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 November 2024
• The secret plan to charge London’s drivers by the mile (London Centric) • Extra tunnels included in £6bn East West Rail scheme (Construction Enquirer) • New 3D maps give disabled passengers more independence at …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 November 2024
• The Class 799 Hydrogen Train: Video (Geoff Marshall) • Converting NYC Commuter Rail to Regional Rail; Plus Eliminating Crosstown Traffic on 14th St (Zach F Howe) • New extension finally connects Barcelona’s tramway lines …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 November 2024
• Discontinuous electrification selected for East West Rail (Rail Business UK) • Infrastructure tsar warns of ‘real challenge’ for HS2 to reach Euston (Standard) • Oxford’s Brand New Railway Project: A Look At The Cowley …
Continue readingThe Shenfield Electrification Scheme: Background
A perennial and fairly meaningless question that is often asked is ‘what are the origins of Crossrail?’ It inevitably depends on how far you want to go back in time but one contender could be …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 4 November 2024
• Local businesses want all of Soho to be pedestrianised (TimeOut) • Highland Mainline to run no trains between Inverness and Perth for 4 weekends (Inverness Courier) • Less ‘crush and rush’? Euston changes bring …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 1 November 2024
• End of “Euston Rush” as train companies improve boarding announce times (Ian Visits) • TfL seizes 1,400 vehicles from drivers who ignore Ulez fines (Guardian) • Local businesses want all of Soho to be …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 28 October 2024
• Why is the Victoria line so loud? (BBC) • It’s time, finally, to investing in public transport in the north (The Guardian) • Study of 7 mid-sized cities shows 61% fewer traffic deaths with …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 25 October 2024
• East West Rail: First train tests on multi-billion pound route (BBC) • Paddington tube station design error is finally righted after a century! (London Rail) • Exploring Paris Métro Line 11’s eastern extension (Fabric …
Continue readingThe Curious Case of Platform 14 at Paddington
If you go to Paddington main line station and follow the signs to platform 14 you eventually end up at short curved platform located almost at the far end of the station. All of Paddington’s …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 21 October 2024
• Possible Scope of Sadiq Khan’s plans for Oxford Street (On London) • TfL Invites Bids for New London Trams Fleet (Rail Technology) • The Rise, Fall, & Rise Again of the Leeds Tram (Railway …
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