In November 2024 the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) published its annual count of …
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Monday’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 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 October 2024
• Bakerloo line extension pre-contracts awarded (IanVisits) • National Highways to stop calling collisions ‘accidents’ (road.cc) • UK‘s new £340 million fully integrated rail, bus and coach station is open (BusAndTrainUser) • Can the UK …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 14 October 2024
• More problems this week for the Southend pier train (East Anglia Bylines) • How to Salvage the HS2 Embarrassment (New Statesman) • The Complete History of London’s Airport Express Services: Video (The TfL Three) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 October 2024
• Island Line services resume with completion of vital maintenance programme (Rail UK) • All change on the Overground (The Newsletter of Not Quite Everything) • The Purplewashing Paradox: Big Talk, Little Walk (The Accessible …
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• A train driver responds (BusAndTrainUser) • North & West London Lines – Driver’s Eye View (Train_Paul 94) • Europe-wide train ticketing – only EU law is going to fix this mess (Jon Worth) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 October 2024
• A first look at the new Piccadilly line trains being built in Yorkshire (IanVisits) • A nightmare journey on GWR (BusAndTrainUser) • US port strike ends as dockworkers near agreement (Quartz) • Riding Transit …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 September 2024
• A cooler Underground: TfL eyes more stations for its new cooling technology (Ian Visits) • Ashley Down Station – the first ever train: Video (JenOnTheMove) • Germany faces major challenges for its trains (MediaRail) …
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