Friday Reads – 9 April 2021

On By In Design, Electrification, Friday Reads, London Overground, New York, Overground, Trams/Streetcars/LRT, Tunnels, Vertical transport

• London Overground could finally get individual line names (IanVisits)

• The partly-abandoned Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon Railway (JagoHazzard)

• Cars are no longer welcome in Heidelberg (NYTimes)

• A short history of the ‘upstairs omnibus’ (CNN)

• NYC eyes commuter rails as extra subways to lighten subway crowds (TheCityNYC)

• Seattle debating LRT tunnel or elevated extensions (TunnelTalk)

• Indian Railways sets another electrification record (RailwayGazette)

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8 comments

  2. The JagoHazzard link (2nd one down) just links back to this page, in a “Groundhog Day” esque way.

  3. The link to the article about the Tooting, Wimbledon and Merton railway does not appear to work

  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF8VP-31moI

    Just subscribe for Jago.

    Orange spaghetti:

    Romster sounds better than Upford, but I do like the merit of EURope. It commemorates an epoch and will promote the link. ( That’s Emerson Park – Upminster – Romford ) A name that includes the purpose of serving the district and sole station is preferable.

    Historic names should be considered if still relevant – Harlequin, Jazz
    Forest (Waltham/Epping) does not sound specific enough for the inners.

    Orbital, ring, circle could get confusing after Dudding Hill with inner, middle, and outer.

    Changing Orange Network to Citrus maybe a schema focusing on initial letters.
    We’ll still have our own pets like WatEus line.

  5. @Aleks

    Thanks for posting the correct link Aleks.

    I’ve now corrected the post itself, my apologies to everyone reading and to Mr Jago. LBM

  6. Tooting / Merton Abbey / Morden Rd
    According to J Brown, the Merton Abbey goods station closed in 1972 & the (?) Coal (?) depot v close to Tooting in 1968, but almost all of the Eastern end was actually kept as a “long headshunt”. Because at about the time of closure & before lifting in 1975, a railtour visited the branch, & it was possible to see the trains passing on the Tooting-Wimbledon section, not too far from the then buffer-stops.

  8. The piece on Indian Railways makes a sorry contrast to our non-electrification, non-policy, does it not?

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