Monday’s Friday Reads – 30 September 2024

• A cooler Underground: TfL eyes more stations for its new cooling technology (Ian Visits)

• Ashley Down Station – the first ever train: Video (JenOnTheMove)

• Germany faces major challenges for its trains (MediaRail)

• Europe’s answer to the Suez Canal breaks ground after 20-year delay (Euronews)

• Singapore East-West Line MRT disruption: Faulty train left a trail of destruction (Straits Times)

• Circle Line leads Lisboa metro expansion project (Metro Report)

• Buy America Feud Risks 200mph Rail between Vegas to LA (CityLab)

• The 2024 European Tram Driver Championships: Video (The Tim Traveller)

One comment

  1. A lot of the comments on the Ashley Down video are about the open shelters with horrible seats. Just what extra would it cost to have enclosed shelters and human-shaped ones? I’ve spent enough time on normal-shaped metal seats in parky enclosed stations (eg Newcastle), there only because I had to be for a connection, to know that the grotesque ones at AD would never see me. Here’s a novel idea – design a station round good passenger facilities.

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