• Northern Line’s mulled Egyptian renaming (IanVisits) • South London’s lost canals (TheGreatWen) • Great Yarmouth’s 1928 Venetian waterways reopen after restoration (Revitalization) • Stockholm’s abandoned Eriksdal train tunnel (AtlasObscura) • Munich’s U9 Ubahn extension …
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HS2’s breakthrough tunnel design (RailEngineer)
Take a look at the latest images of the trains proposed for HS2. They too have to travel very fast – just as fast as, if not faster than, their Japanese counterparts. The HS2 trains …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 October 2019
• Fenchurch Street makeover plans submitted (IanVisits) • Hook of Holland – Harwich history (Retours) • Ferrari design firm designs Swiss Alps train (Wired) • New Metro lines open in Russia and India (NextCity) • …
Continue readingFurther reducing railways’ energy use (SmartRailWorld)
Rail represents one of the cleanest ways to travel, second only to walking or cycling. Across EU countries, less than one per cent of all transport gas emissions come from railways. Yet UK rail operators …
Continue readingShaft solution for Paris interchange station (TunnelTalk)
Innovative design and construction of underground infrastructure is being called upon from designer engineers and contractors to build the Grand Paris Express expansion of the public transport metro system of the French capital ahead of …
Continue readingEnergy Observer solar/wind/ H2 boat visits London (Engadget)
Energy Observer is a vessel powered only by energy that it generates itself, be it the onboard solar panels, wind turbines or a hydrogen fuel cell. It’s a floating laboratory, PR stunt and clean-energy evangelist …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 14 October 2019
• I found my mother with this 1977 Tube Map (CityLab) • UK cities call for £1.5bn funding of national CAZ network (AirQualityNews) • Scotland to reopen yet another passenger rail line (RailEngineer) • London …
Continue readingUS industry distrusts CRRC subway cars (Bloomberg)
The concrete floors shine in the new $100 million factory on Chicago’s far South Side. Towering shelves painted in blue, yellow, and red are mostly empty. The quiet is eerie, punctuated only by a forklift’s …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 October 2019
• 5 things TfL should do with its new cycling database (CityWayfinding) • Manchester pushes back on Piccadilly HS2 parking garage (PlaceNorthWest) • New York’s forgotten elevated subway (Jalopnik) • What was Philly’s Broad-Ridge spur …
Continue readingParis pioneers river & cycling logistics delivery (En24)
“The boat will work a bit like a metro,” says Gilles Manuelle, founder of Fludis. Each morning, it will leave the port of Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) then enter the capital on the Seine before serving four …
Continue readingEuro rail freight network rules changing (RailFreight)
European interest group FERRMED is carrying out a study that could provide a fundamental tool in the modification of the TEN-T Regulation. This set of rules determining the corridor network of the EU is to …
Continue readingDB tests white rails to reduce overheating (RailwayNews)
Deutsche Bahn is testing white rails on the high-speed line between Hanover and Würzburg. The project is one of several Deutsche Bahn is conducting to address the consequences of climate change. DB expects the results …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 October 2019
• Crossrail rules out dust link to mystery deaths (ConstructionEnquirer) • Data visualisations of Britain’s most trodden paths (OrdnanceSurvey) • Uber stops own investigators from reporting crimes to police (Verge) • Efficient vertical heavy transport …
Continue readingPolystyrene platforms (RailEngineer)
Next time you are standing on a station, waiting for a train, look down. Not at your feet – past those. What’s down there? On an older station it may be paving slabs, or tarmac. …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 4 October 2019
• See inside Crossrail’s Whitechapel station (IanVisits) • Lessons from a London car-free street fight (CityLab) • Remembering the GN&C Moorgate Class 313s (NewWipersTimes) • The railway air quality challenge (Emsol) • How poor public …
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