A perennial and fairly meaningless question that is often asked is ‘what are the origins …
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Day Travelcards – Their History, Importance, & Salvation (Ticketing Part 2)
Digital is the mainstream now in fare payment, but it does little for those like on no or small fixed incomes, recent immigrants, those without bank or Oyster cards, people uncomfortable or unable to use …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 8 January 2023
• London Tube strikes called off as more pay talks planned (BBC News) • Weight limit for Albert Bridge to stop it suffering same fate as Hammersmith Bridge (Standard) • More details about plans to …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 5 January 2024
• Major disruption expected on London Underground throughout next week (The Guardian) • Subway Trains Collide in Manhattan, Causing Derailment (New York Times) • Transit Project Openings in 2024: A Global Review (The Transport Politic) …
Continue readingNew Year’s Friday Reads – 2 January 2024
• Eurostar Channel services restarting on Sunday as flooding is cleared (The Guardian) • Plans for direct trains from St Pancras to Germany and Switzerland (Yahoo! News) • Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its …
Continue readingChristmas Quiz 2023 Answers
As promised here are the answers to the Christmas Quiz. Comments are based on a limited number of responses sent in. Please mark your own work and tell us how you got on. The limited …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 29 December 2023
• More of the new Piccadilly line trains could be built in the UK (Ian Visits) • Regent’s Park – The Station That Shouldn’t Be There: Video (Jago Hazzard) • On demand transit doesn’t work …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 December 2023
• Europe’s Best and Worst Railway Stations of 2023 (CityLab) • The BusAndTrainUser Awards 2023 (BusAndTrainUser) • London’s Most… (Diamond Geezer) • Camden tunnels: Video (Hidden London Hangouts) • Berlin-Paris night train revived (Le Monde) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 December 2023
• New TfL podcast celebrates 160 years of the London Underground (Rail UK) • New entrance to London Bridge station scrapped as development blocked (Murky Depths) • Is this a new era for high-speed rail …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 18 December
• Are we there yet? Barriers to transport for disabled people in 2023 (Transport for All) • UK online train ticket sellers warned to be more upfront about booking fees (The Guardian) • Revamped Central …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 December 2023
• New Subway fleet enters passenger service in Glasgow (SPT) • Limit reached in the UK train baggage area (RailTech) • Biden to invest $8B for nationwide expansion of passenger rail (Route Fifty) • Evolyn …
Continue readingHS2 – A High Speed Beeching
We have noticed a plethora of different analyses and realisations of the impacts of the recently-announced HS2 Phase 2 cancellation. Initially, there was a new article about it almost every day. Lately, it has slowed …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 December 2023
• Brent Cross West station: The next stage in a long London journey (Dave Hill) • Passengers trapped on cold, dark trains as travel chaos hits west London (The Guardian) • South Western rail boss …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 December 2023
• Counter-terror officers investigate ULEZ camera explosion (BBC) • Overground upgrade sees 2025 target for improved services (Murky Depths) • The surprising story of steam trains on the Central line (IanVisits) • Steam Trains & …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 4 December 2023
• Class 730s start running for LNWR (BusAndTrainUser) • London Underground thefts rise by 83% in a year (BBC News) • The world’s first railway station identified (Rail Engineer) • 1976: The Train Station with …
Continue readingLondon Reconnections 2023 Christmas Quiz
Our annual quiz continues. 2023 seems to have provided sufficient questions for roughly the same number of questions as is usually asked. This year, there are no ‘trick’ questions in the sense that in none …
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