Jonn Elledge, Author at London Reconnections

London’s busiest bus stops, by interactive map

On 20 October 2025 By Jonn Elledge In Buses, Data, Focus, Long reads

This is a guest post by Jonn Elledge, from his blog The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything from the June 11, 2025 edition. Newlywed friend of the newsletter Ed Jefferson is making the most of …

The Stairway to Heaven: the greatest disaster ever on London’s Tubes

On 8 June 2023 By Jonn Elledge In History, Long reads

There’s an oddly shaped war memorial in Bethnal Green Gardens, the park next to my local tube station. It looks like an upside down staircase, made of what I’m assuming is wood but looks to …

Everything I learned from Scotrail’s automated station announcements

On 9 March 2023 By Jonn Elledge In Long reads, Stations

Just occasionally, something good happens on the internet. Jon Brady, a reporter at Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper, tweeted that he’d unearthed a two hour MP3 containing all ScotRail’s automated station announcements. A coder named Matt Eason split them into 2,440 individual …