The role of the railway guard has been in the news recently due to various industrial disputes in London and beyond. With debate set to continue over the role in the coming months, this seems …
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Crossrail: Making Concrete Progress
With Crossrail well into the phase of building the railway infrastructure we look at progress in the tunnel section and what is being done to push forward ahead of schedule Not just a real railway …
Continue readingSSR Signalling And The New Tube For London
We have looked at the New Tube for London (NTfL) before but, with very little officially announced, it has been hard to pin down the details. Thanks to the a presentation to the Rail and …
Continue readingNot Quite World Class Capacity
Very logically, and very conveniently for us, TfL’s Finance and Policy panel has now published details of the proposed infrastructure upgrade to the Jubilee and Northern lines. So as a nice follow up to our …
Continue readingMind The (Train) Gap? A Look at the World Class Capacity Upgrades
Some TfL panels are always worth keeping an eye on for unexpected developments, and the most recently announced Rail and Underground Panel meeting set antennae twitching at LR Towers with notable indications that something significant …
Continue readingc2c: The Timetables, They Are A-Changin’
On Monday 14 December 2015 c2c introduced a new weekday timetable between Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness. By the next day they had already made their first changes and those changes have continued, with the latest …
Continue readingThe Queen vs DfT: Questioning the East Anglia Franchise
On the 10th December 2015 in Court Two at the Royal Courts of Justice a new case commenced. Its presence in Court Two may reflect more on the number of legal professionals present rather than …
Continue readingExtending the Bakerloo: It’s Not About Transport
For almost a hundred years people have talked about extending the Bakerloo line. The latest consultation report on doing this has now been published. We look at its conclusions, and explain why it’s about housing, …
Continue readingA Study in Sussex Part 12: Pointless at Purley
In this part of our ongoing series we look at a critical set of points north of Purley station and what role they might play in a future Brighton Main Line. It is also a …
Continue readingBoxing Clever: Crossrail at Paddington
With the euphoria surrounding the completion of Crossrail’s running tunnels and the subsequent dismantling of the TBMs it is easy to forget that there is an awful lot of civil engineering construction work still to …
Continue readingA Study In Sussex Part 11: Diverted to the Oxted Lines
It seems to be a truism that the less important a railway line is, the more interest there is in it. Of all the lines in the southern Home Counties it is the line to …
Continue readingA Study in Sussex Part 10: South Croydon & BML2
Our journey down the Brighton Line has now got as far as South Croydon. Not only do we look at the station but also at the five track section between East Croydon and South Croydon. …
Continue readingA Study in Sussex Part 9: East Croydon Revisited
We thought we had covered East Croydon in ample detail in recent articles. We also thought we would not be revisiting there for a long time yet. That was until the final version of the …
Continue readingDocklands Light Railway: At Dawn, Look To The East
In our previous DLR article we looked at the DLR routes to the City. It is now time to look further east and see where future enhancement is expected. We now look at the routes …
Continue readingLight (Rail) Reading: Why the DLR Timetable is Changing
In many ways the DLR’s story so far is one of five stages – expansion, stagnation, Olympic revival, further stagnation and consolidation. We are now in the transient stage between the last of those two. …
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