You need to know little about urban railways’ cartography to know the name Harry Beck, …
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Friday Reads – 11 April 2025
• A New Road for London (BusAndTrainUser) • London St. Pancras Highspeed (formerly HS1) announces incentive scheme to grow international rail services (Rail UK) • Camden High Street’s pedestrianisation trial starts in May (Ian Visits) …
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• Second HS2 tunnel reaches Greenford, completing Western Northolt tunnel (Ian Visits) • Nancy replaces single-rail TVR gadget-bahn with modern battery trolleybuses (Streetsblog) • Manhattan Congestion Pricing Not Rerouting Traffic to Other Boroughs (Streetsblog) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 April 2025
• Get to know the MTA’s first new subway map since 1979 (NY Groove) • Work to reopen Bristol to Portishead railway line to start this summer (ITV) • Secret tunnel found under Salisbury station, …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 31 March 2025
• London’s Tramways Posters Exhibition (Global Photos) • One Bullet, Two Volts: How Seoul’s Metro Was Born (SY Lee) • Cab ride videos with interactive map overlays of trains, trams, metros from all over the …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 March 2025
• The rejected 2020s London Overground line names (London Centric) • Metros Buenos Aires confirms plan to build long-planned metro Line F (Railway Gazette) • East West Rail: Chiltern Railways Named as First Stage Operator …
Continue readingLR Update March 2025 – Interested in Joining Us?
The following is a public service announcement from London Reconnections: During the pandemic London Reconnections basically ran on a skeleton staff basis. But we have slowly rebuilt our capacity to produce long form content on …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 24 March 2025
• Oxford Street Transformation: Have Your Say (TfL) • Transit Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies & Disdain for the Public First (Union of Concerned Scientists) • Is London’s New Tram-Bus Worth the Hype? The Irizar …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 21 March 2025
• London’s black cabs destined for extinction in 20 years, TfL warned (Guardian) • London’s Most Controversial Bus, the BYD BD11 Reviewed: Video (Network Nathan) • Britain’s Bike-Friendliest ‘New Town’ Is a Model for Car-Free …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 17 March 2025
• The Mother of All Inventions… (Roger Farnworth) • Urban Rail in Africa (Reece Martin) • The Saunders Roe Queen: The Cruise Liner Flying Boat: Video (Found & Explained) • Why does Tokyo have Two …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 14 March 2025
• Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion (The Guardian) • Oxford Circus – The Wall (London Rail) • 46 555s for Metro (BusAndTrainUser) • Cambridge South Station Construction Tour: Video …
Continue readingEnglish Settlement: Devolving Powers to Enable Intermodal Fare Integration: Part 2
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” science fiction author William Gibson famously wrote. This is definitely the case with public transport in the UK. Whilst London’s intermodal fare zones and payment …
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• HS2 drives £10 billion west London economic boost (RailUK) • Railways & Canal Tunnels History #2 (London Rail) • Train company performance data posted live at stations (Rail UK) • The World’s Most Stressful …
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• London bus depot decimates a river (London Rail) • First cycle train enters service on the Heart of Wales line (Rail UK) • Call for Edinburgh’s south suburban rail line to reopen to passengers …
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• Channel Tunnel plans for direct links to Germany, Southern France, & Switzerland (Railtech) • The Great Unwashed Bakerloo 72 Tube Stock (London Rail) • New York subways testing system using smartphones to find track …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 February 2025
• HS2 Euston tunnel work put on hold for another review (Construction Enquirer) • First look at unusual branding for the new £2m Silvertown tunnel bike bus (The Standard) • SouthEastern Class 465 in Network …
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