A perennial and fairly meaningless question that is often asked is ‘what are the origins …
Continue reading
Friday Reads – June 9, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. Mail Rail ride & Postal Museum opening 28 July 2017 (Postal Museum) TfL contactless bottles …
Continue readingDiving into the Fleet Part 5: The Canary Wharf Years
Competition between the City and Canary Wharf, Conservative party politics and the rise and fall of one of the world’s largest property developers all helped define the Jubilee line as we know it today. Jonathan …
Continue readingFriday Reads – June 2, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. How London can cut air pollution – CityMetric Tunnel boring machine display in Westminster – …
Continue readingFriday Reads – May 26, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. What self-driving cars see – New York Times Visualizing LA Metro’s transit ridership – LisaSchweitzer.com …
Continue readingFriday Reads – May 19, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. Britain’s quasi-legal ‘rideable’ transport mode – CityMetric Samsung Pay pay-as-you-go in London – Metro Report …
Continue readingBakerloo Déjà Vu: Buying New Trains for the DLR
With tight curves and other unique features. Buying trains for the DLR means buying bespoke. We look at TfL’s current plans to renew the rolling stock and the timescales involved.
Continue readingFriday Reads – May 12, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. Airlander 10 resumes flight tests – Ars Technica Citymapper Smartbus London circulator – Medium Network …
Continue readingYou Hacked: Cyber-security and the Railways
As both the Underground, and rail in general, become increasingly reliant on their digital infrastructure, so the potential impact of a cyber attack grows. We look some of the core cyber-security issues facing the railway, and at how the need to keep a ‘wetware’ backup still remains.
Continue readingFriday Reads – May 5, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. TfL launches Please offer me a seat Badge – Railway Technology Deutsche Bank study finds …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 28, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. Night Tube noise complaints – Railway Technology Mail Rail BT Cold War cable removal – …
Continue readingKent Route Study (Part 3): Victoria Metro Services
As part of our series on the recent Kent Route Study, we look at what it refers to as the ‘Victoria Metro Services.’ It is nearly impossible to do so, however, without also looking at …
Continue readingOn Our Line #9: On The (New York) Buses
London Reconnections continues its New York podcast series with an episode exploring New York’s buses: the challenges, stepping stone successes and further ideas for improvement. London and New York are both facing declining bus travel …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 21, 2017
This is the next installment of our weekly Friday Reads post – listing the links and articles we’ve been reading at LR Towers. Be sure to also check out our Industry Links posts, updated every weekday, with the latest developments in technology, operations, frameworks, policy and best-practices.
Continue readingSite Notice: Things will look weird for a bit
We’re under a massive attack at the moment. I’m having to switch us to a different design and turn a bunch of stuff off while I deal with it. Apologies! JB
Continue readingStreamlined Modernity: Frank Pick’s Forgotten Bus Garages
Popular appreciation of London Underground’s 1930s Modernist Tube station buildings has kept them well in the public eye. There was an equivalent programme, however, during the same decade at remote outposts of London Transport’s empire in the counties surrounding London. Thanks to an estate of run-down bus garages, London Transport’s Country Bus department enjoyed a renewal and replacement programme which left it with some Modernist and Streamline Moderne buildings that reflect their common patron – Frank Pick. This is the story of the best London Transport buildings you’ve never heard of – London’s Country Bus garages.
Continue reading