• London Underground’s longest advert ever (London Rail) • Making a future for London’s black cab trade (On London) • The Midland Pullman Past & Present (Railway-News) • Why We Lost The World’s Only Double-Sided …
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Correspondent and Friday Reads compiler for London Reconnections.
Friday Reads – 2 May 2025
• Superloop: No More Buggy & Wheelchair Boarding Battles (Accessible Link) • The scourge of roadworks (BusAndTrainUser) • How the Channel Tunnel Got Built: Podcast (More Jam Tomorrow) • Trip Report: Amtrak Floridian Gets a …
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• Live train performance data rolled out at 1,700 stations in England (Railway Technology) • Gatwick to accept ‘stricter limits’ on plane noise & higher PT split for 2nd runway (BBC) • The Safety Advantages …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 25 April 2025
• Pope of the people, man of the rails: the quiet power of Francis’ love for trains (RailTech) • Clever tube trivia in the Elizabeth line’s new station stickers (Ian Visits) • Network Rail Painting …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 21 April 2025
• HS2 completes first anti-boom portal (Construction Index) • Edinburgh Trams ‘tap on/tap off’ system to launch soon (Herald Scotland) • Park Royal – A Station Fit for a King?: Video (Jago Hazzard) • How …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 April 2025
• Hard shoulder driving lanes on ‘smart motorways’ lead to needless deaths (BBC) • Why are America’s trains so slow? (Benjamin Schneider) • Italy’s new high-speed rail line looks to reverse depopulation, lift southern economy …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 14 April 2025
• London Euston completely closed, no trains to Milton Keynes Central, on Easter Weekend (Rail Advent) • Construction of Sheffield in-fill tram-train stop gets underway (Metro Report) • Longer trains planned as new Northumberland Line …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 April 2025
• A New Road for London (BusAndTrainUser) • London St. Pancras Highspeed (formerly HS1) announces incentive scheme to grow international rail services (Rail UK) • Camden High Street’s pedestrianisation trial starts in May (Ian Visits) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 April 2025
• Second HS2 tunnel reaches Greenford, completing Western Northolt tunnel (Ian Visits) • Nancy replaces single-rail TVR gadget-bahn with modern battery trolleybuses (Streetsblog) • Manhattan Congestion Pricing Not Rerouting Traffic to Other Boroughs (Streetsblog) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 April 2025
• Get to know the MTA’s first new subway map since 1979 (NY Groove) • Work to reopen Bristol to Portishead railway line to start this summer (ITV) • Secret tunnel found under Salisbury station, …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 31 March 2025
• London’s Tramways Posters Exhibition (Global Photos) • One Bullet, Two Volts: How Seoul’s Metro Was Born (SY Lee) • Cab ride videos with interactive map overlays of trains, trams, metros from all over the …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 March 2025
• The rejected 2020s London Overground line names (London Centric) • Metros Buenos Aires confirms plan to build long-planned metro Line F (Railway Gazette) • East West Rail: Chiltern Railways Named as First Stage Operator …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 24 March 2025
• Oxford Street Transformation: Have Your Say (TfL) • Transit Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies & Disdain for the Public First (Union of Concerned Scientists) • Is London’s New Tram-Bus Worth the Hype? The Irizar …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 17 March 2025
• The Mother of All Inventions… (Roger Farnworth) • Urban Rail in Africa (Reece Martin) • The Saunders Roe Queen: The Cruise Liner Flying Boat: Video (Found & Explained) • Why does Tokyo have Two …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 14 March 2025
• Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion (The Guardian) • Oxford Circus – The Wall (London Rail) • 46 555s for Metro (BusAndTrainUser) • Cambridge South Station Construction Tour: Video …
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