• How measuring access not time can get Britain’s railway growth back on track (Create Streets)
• Revisiting Manchester: A High Speed through station for the North (Full Steam Ahead)
• The €2bn question: why has Eurostar still not ordered any new trains? (CrossBorderRail)
• What’s next for London’s DLR?: Video (CityMoose)
• Why we stopped building subways cheaply (Brian Potter)
• Pedicabs: Sex, loathing, & highway robbery in London’s most chaotic transport (London Centric)
• Why China is betting big on salt batteries, & why on scooters (BBC)
• From Istanbul to London by train (Passenger Transport)
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Reading about the multiplier effect (“Create Streets”), I can’t help wondering if this is a useful effect of Social Media.
Despite going nowhere near the Northumberland Line, I’ve seen plenty of videos about it. I know how nice the car parks are, how long the trains are how good the service is.
No amount of advertising could match the recommendations from the Geoff’s, Nicks and Jens on YouTube. And the accessibility of these new stations to Newsham means that people will give it a go and find out for themselves.
Social Media not ALL bad!
In the station for Manchester piece, I assume that Earlsfield (on map and in text) is meant to be Earlstown.
As a principle, building the Manchester equivalent of Old Oak Common at a point near existing railways seems a great idea.
I’m not convinced that the exact location proposed (and orientation) is the best answer but following the Victorian placement of Manchester Piccadilly possibly isn’t as well.
The desire to have a Manchester Airport station (although seemingly removed from the existing Manchester airport station) is an influence on the current design.
One obvious location for the Manchester “Old Oak Common” would be on the railway land you see on the approach to Piccadilly (a little south of “Ardwick”). It has options for a route to the East of Manchester City Centre towards existing trans-pennine routes.
This would allow the planned (and approved) route to be used and existing (and new) services to act as distributors. This location has a relationship similar to that between Old Oak Common and Paddington (although it is closer to the terminus).
Leaving aside the location, the concept of the Manchester “Old Oak Common” allowing lower cost onward connections seems a great idea.