Monday’s Friday Reads – 26 May 2025

By John Bull 1 min read
Monday’s Friday Reads – 26 May 2025

• Reopening Birmingham's Camp Hill Line: Reversing Beeching (FutureRail)

• South Western Railway (SWR) was nationalised on Sunday (Ian Visits)

• Crashes on 20mph & 30mph roads at 'record low' (BBC)

• The 200 year journey of Britain's fastest locomotive (InterCity 225): Video (London North Eastern Railway)

• Improving disabled access to UK’s public transport ‘almost impossible’ (The Guardian)

• How France saved its public transit from catastrophe (SYLee)

• Train Daddy's home: Andy Byford to return to NYC for Penn Station remake (Gothamist)

• Relief Map of Street Railway System in Pittsburgh 1910 (Transit Maps)

• The origin of land transport words: Video (Words Unravelled)

And if you missed it, remember to take a look at London Reconnections' latest article: Becksploitation – Sydney’s Beck-style railway maps