• Timely arrival: Great British Railways clock launches at London Bridge (The Guardian)
• Old Piccadilly line trains to be cannibalised to keep Bakerloo line running (Ian Visits)
• Other Stations: 226 Garages & Service Stations (The Beauty of Transport)
• Dizzying diagonal digital new screens along Tube escalators are disorienting (London Rail)
• UK Dieselgate trial to start at London’s High Court (E+T)
• The plans that could give the UK’s busiest station a tube connection: Video (CityMoose)
• Why are so many transit agencies facing ‘fiscal cliffs’? (The Urban Condition)
• The WWII Ruins of Berlin’s Most Beautiful Railway Station: Video (Whitlam’s Berlin Tours)
• Moving away from aggressive battery-bus adoption, Seattle focusing on trolleybus network (The Urbanist)
• Tehran Opens Holy Virgin Mary Metro Station (Parametric Architecture)
• Japan’s Railway Operation Act (KHKQ Beside Trains)
• Anorak corner (tube edition) (Diamond Geezer)
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“Clapham Junction on the tube?” Or how to overload your tube-train at the start of every journey ( Like Brixton, only worse, in other words. )
So, maybe not? If you must extend that branch – rather than do something sensible & useful like Corssrail2 for instance, then extending to Putney ( & Wandsworth )
Dare one mention the word “crayons” here?
Anhalter Bahnof
The remains of part of the frontage appears several times in the all-time classic film “Wings of Desire” ( Der Himmel uber Berlin ) which starred someone who later became much more well-known in this country, Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler in Der Untergang
TfL have confirmed they are combining Underground and Elizabeth Line passenger counts at Core stations.
Using a better description of Busiest Underground stations served by Elizabeth trains. Rather different to Busiest Elizabeth Line stations.
Both the Bakerloo Line extension and Northern Line to Clapham Junction seem wrong in the long term (should we be building tube extensions at all rather than full sized rail tunnels?).
I suppose to “future proof” these extensions (should they happen) they could be built like the Moorgate to Finsbury Park line, at a size that allows full size trains and then be migrated to a larger scheme if and when that were to happen.