• Greater Manchester mayor tables underground rail network for city region (New Civil Engineer) • What’s gone wrong with HS2?: Video (Green Signals) • Britain’s newest luxury sleeper train to travel England & Wales (RailUK) …
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Correspondent and Friday Reads compiler for London Reconnections.
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) • …
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• HS2 TBM Anne Completes Final Stretch of Northolt Tunnel (Railway-News) • TfL 25 (Diamond Geezer) • Let’s Ride … The Settle and Carlisle Line: Video (Geoff Marshall) • Wheelchairs, Waitings and Ratings: The New …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 June 2025
• Welcome to Inspiration (Railway 200) • Evacuated London train passengers forced to walk along tracks on hottest day of year (The Guardian) • Network Rail working to fix mobile phone “no-spots” in railway tunnels …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 June 2025
• Oxford Street will be pedestrianised as soon as possible, says Khan (The Guardian) • East West Rail’s first commercial freight train: Video (Rail UK) • Dangleway cabins with glass floors (Diamond Geezer) • Locos …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 13 June 2025
• TfL gets £2.2 billion for capital upgrades over the next three years (IanVisits) • Coventry Very Light Rail is here: Video (Geoff Marshall) • How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service to Greater …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 9 June 2025
• ‘Cleaner, greener, and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback (The Guardian) • Locos and Loops Part One: Video (Hidden London Hangouts) • Uber’s new shuttles ie buses, are a deeper problem (Grist) • Finding …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 6 June 2025
• 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 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 2 June 2025
• London Congestion Charge set to rise by 20% to £18 (BBC) • VW Dieselgate pollution killed 16,000 people in UK, study estimates (The Guardian) • The Great Canal Collapse: Video (Paul Whitewick) • Britain’s …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 26 May 2025
• Reopening Birmingham’s Camp Hill Line: Reversing Beeching (FutureRail) • South Western Railway (SWR) was nationalised on Sunday (Ian Visits) • Crashes on 20mph & 30mph roads at ‘record low’ (BBC) • The 200 year …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 23 May 2025
• History is made as First Commuter Railway in the UK goes Signal-Free (Rail Advent) • No evidence’ that gov’t’s Jet Zero strategy to cut aviation emissions is working (New Civil Engineer) • The delays …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 19 May 2025
• The Suprising Success of UK Railway Reopenings (Full Steam Ahead) • Airport expansion plans risk undermining UK climate targets without boosting economy (E+T) • Tower Subway and the Mystery of the Southern Entrance (A …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 16 May 2025
• Weaver Network unveiled as ‘new era’ for West Yorkshire public transport (BBC) • How LA switched road priority globally from pedestrians to cars a century ago (Zag) • La Dolce Vita Orient Express’ interior …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 12 May 2025
• Is devolution of suburban rail to London going to arrive? (On London) • Has a tram network been ruled out of Glasgow’s Clyde Metro project? (The Herald) • Why Chicago still hasn’t fixed the …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 9 May 2025
• Elizabeth line giant digital advertising screen plans criticised (BBC) • Age of consent to be a train driver lowered to 18 years (Ian Visits) • Ikea Backs Traffic-Free Oxford Street to Serve New London …
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