Only a handful of North American cities have kept their pre-war streetcar networks. Why was …
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The Mysterious Case of the Gidea Park Shorts
Just in case anyone thought this might be a whodunnit concerning a pair of minimal trousers, let it be known that its current use is to describe an apparently strange feature of the Crossrail timetable. …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 March 2023
• Elizabeth line is now the UK’s busiest railway (IanVisits) • The Beauty of Toilets: Southern Railway stations shine anew (BeautyOfTransport) • World’s longest cycle tunnel opens in Bergen Norway (Jalopnik) • New York has …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 March 2023
• TfL going paper ticket free will leave Londoners behind (LondonTravelWatch) • The Short Story of London’s Trolleybuses: Video (JagoHazzard) • Reopening of abandoned Merseyside railway under consideration (AnonWidower) • Why Nancy is scrapping its …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 13 March 2023
• TfL data shows 20mph speed limits significantly reduce collisions & injuries (IntelligentTransport) • Underground perfection & imperfection, Tube Mapper’s Luke Agbaimoni: Video (RailNatter) • Vienna’s symphony of public transport: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • The good, …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 March 2023
• Parts of HS2, & the Lower Thames Crossing delayed two years due to soaring costs (Guardian) • Le Métro in Île de France: a new year retrospective (FabricOfParis) • Using a railway carriage as …
Continue readingEverything I learned from Scotrail’s automated station announcements
Just occasionally, something good happens on the internet. Jon Brady, a reporter at Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper, tweeted that he’d unearthed a two hour MP3 containing all ScotRail’s automated station announcements. A coder named Matt Eason split them into 2,440 individual …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 6 March 2023
• Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (Forbes) • Abandoned UK railway links coming back into their own (NewCivilEng) • Evolution of a NA streetcar city into a modern metropolis: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • …
Continue readingMeetup: Change of day and change of location
We are changing our pub venue and day of the week when we will meet. We will give more details nearer the time, but for the moment please note that from March onward we will …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 3 March 2023
• Bank Tube station’s new Cannon Street entrance has opened (IanVisits) • Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (Forbes) • Almost 1 in 10 local UK bus services were axed last year (Guardian) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 27 February 2023
• Review of TfL’s recent rail & Tube upgrades (IanVisits) • Disabled campaigners are to thank for accessibility on the Elizabeth Line (TransportForAll) • Cardiff Council announces vision for Cardiff Crossrail (SWalesMetro) • Designer selected …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 February 2023
• Leicester railway station redevelopment & revamp renders released (BBC) • ‘15-minute city’: the mundane planning theory terrifying conspiracists (Guardian) • Cardiff tram-train route consultation underway (MetroReport) • Overnight train between London & Berlin to …
Continue readingThe Slow Death Of Heathrow Express
When discussing Crossrail, commenters have often speculated on the ultimate demise of Heathrow Express – the private train operating company that runs a non-stop express service between Paddington and Heathrow. This speculation is generally predicated …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 February 2023
• Germany’s pre-WW2 Zeppelin spy flights: Video (CalibanRising) • Railways are instrumental in evacuations, this time in earthquake-hit Turkey (RailTech) • Behind the scenes at NYC Subway’s Power Control Center (IRideHarlemLine) • Process of mapping …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 February 2023
• Fast charge battery trial to resume after GWR agrees to purchase Vivarail assets (RailUK) • Wales road building projects stopped after failing climate review (Guardian) • Ottawa’s LRT didn’t go wrong, it started wrong …
Continue readingPop Art tunnel Michelangelo – Dragados & the Art of Tunnel Scanning
On July 20, 2022, the heat from an exploratory drill inside Montréal’s century old Mont-Royal railway tunnel, advance work for the city’s modern Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) automated Métro line, caused an explosion. It was …
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