Southeastern and overcrowding. Closure of Charing Cross. Saturday services on New Year’s Eve. PAYG Rollout on National Rail. Freedom Passes and the Rail Summit. Electrifying the GOBLIN and the cost of acquiring Rolling Stock. OEPs. …
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The Big Split: Overground Line Names
As the Overground has grown, calls have increased to provide its sub-lines with clearer identities of their own. Behind the scenes, TfL have been working to do just that. Those new identities have now been …
Continue readingSuperloop: Analysis, hopefully not paralysis
Someone at City Hall found the box of crayons. On the 28th of March, Transport for London unveiled a map of a new transport proposal. It featured a colour scheme to rival the New Jersey …
Continue readingThe Flowering of Overground lines & colours – How Soon is Now?
In his 2021 London Mayoral Election Manifesto, Sadiq Khan proposed giving names (and potentially their own colours) to London Overground lines to give them a unique identity. “TfL’s London Overground network has grown considerably over …
Continue readingCovenants, Easements & Wayleaves: Transport asset interface register (Part 2)
We now delve deeper into evolution of railway infrastructure knowledge that we started in Part 1 of this series. We look at some more recent examples of how underground railway infrastructure interfaces with its environment …
Continue readingThe Empires Return – London and New York City Part 2
The rise of London and New York City as major global cities can be traced in part to investment in high quality transport networks, as we described in Part 1, which helped enable each city …
Continue reading2020 Christmas Quiz – The Answers
As we expected there were rather fewer answers send in this year. Most of these arrived on the last day so we haven’t had a chance to examine them in details and, maybe, permit alternative …
Continue readingState of the Art signalling still relies on people
Despite having one of the largest subway networks in the world, New Yorkers now experience frustratingly erratic and unreliable service. Underfunding has meant that engineers have been pushing the often-century-old subway signalling hardware decades past …
Continue readingOn The Buses: Fares, Fumes and Finances
It’s been a while since we looked in detail at London’s bus network and its related issues on LR, so it’s time for an update. We begin by looking at what has happened in recent …
Continue reading2018 Quiz: The Answers
With the deadline for entering now passed it is time to provide answers to the 2018 London Reconnections Quiz. This is our initial offering of the answers. However so many of you provided so much …
Continue readingHoly Grails and Thameslink Fails (Part 1): A Brief History of Thameslink
To understand the current issues with Thameslink, one has to understand its past. In this series, we explore the history of London’s only ‘through’ line and how that influences today. For many years it has …
Continue reading2017 Quiz Analysis and Winners
Sincere apologies for the time taken to do analysis on the questions and identify winners. This was not the intention but the lingering flu bug this year severely delayed finalising the details. If you want …
Continue reading2017 Quiz Answers
Here are the answers to the 2017 quiz. We were surprised by how well people did and the number of answers with almost all the questions correct. Question 1 We asked what was wrong with …
Continue readingThe Importance of Being Earnest: Making the Case for Crossrail 2
“When I was at school I liked art.” Says Michèle Dix CBE, Managing Director of Crossrail 2, when we ask her how she began her journey to the world of London transport. “I liked drawing, …
Continue readingDiving into the Fleet (Part 4): The Eighties
The eighties were a time of great change in the social and political fabric of Britain. Overshadowed by rail privatisation in the nineties, what’s often not appreciated is how much transport planning in London changed …
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