Monday’s Friday Reads – 7 July 2025

• Midlands Rail scheme put on hold: Video (Transport Matters)

• Riding high in Germany on the world’s oldest suspended railway (The Guardian)

• Why Japan’s Shinkanzen bullet train exports failed: Video (Behind Asia)

• Canada’s Most Important Transit Project Leaps Forward (Next Metro)

• Super rare Japanese train turns night views into moving hearts around Tokyo (SoraNews24)

• Roll Up! The transport songs of The Beatles (The Beauty of Transport)

3 comments

  1. The apparent penny-pinching over the Bordesley chords is typical, I’m afraid.
    It smells very strongly of both the DfT & Treasury being unable to distinguish actual investment for the future with capital expenditure.
    Railways = subsidy, roads = investment ( See also Lower Thames Crossing ) is their mantra.

  2. Suggested addition to Roll Up! (The transport songs of The Beatles)…

    I said I’m trav’ling on the one after 909
    I got my bag, run to the station
    Railman says you’ve got the the wrong location

  3. @David Bleicher Thanks for this. I have started working on a sequel of Daniel Wright’s post, with a deeper dive on some songs & locations in Liverpool (with the awareness and approval of Daniel, who’s a friend of mine). Should you have any other tips, you can email me at mike at londonreconnections.com. LBM

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