• Great Britain’s new rail timetable (went) live this weekend (The Guardian) • Great British Railways goes back to the future with new branding (Design Week) • 25 Places with two stations: 25 Suburban London …
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Friday Reads – 5 December 2025
• TfL bids to take over Moorgate mainline w/ plan to increase Great Northern services (IanVisits) • Huge Changes for ECML in December 2025 Timetable: Video (NetworkNews) • East West Rail Update, w/ Cowley Branch …
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• 150 Years of Charles Holden: Video (Transport for London) • Avelia Horizon trains Eurostar ordered not compliant with Channel Tunnel evacuation rules (Jon Worth) • How 15-minute is your city? (Brandon Donnelly) • I …
Continue readingInt’l competition for architecture, design, & visual identity of new €3bn Turin Metro Line 2 (ArchDigest)
An international competition has been [was] launched for the architecture, design and visual identity of a planned new €3 billion metro line in Turin [Deadline closed 7 October 2025] The two-stage contest – organised by …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 August 2025
• The Iconic 1940s Gants Hill Station: Video (Geoff Marshall) • What really ate Ebbsfleet? (Michael Dnes) • Women in London’s transport in the two world wars (London Transport Museum) • Why do US train …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 August 2025
• Labour to revive Northern Powerhouse Rail project (The Guardian) • Is HS2 heading to Manchester by stealth? (Michael Dnes) • Revival of Northern Powerhouse Rail could save HS2 to Manchester (James O’Malley) • ScotRail …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 August 2025
• England’s National Cycling Network Gets a New Expansion Plan (CityLab) • How buses forged London’s social conscience (London TravelWatch) • An engineer’s tour of the Railway Museum’s New Hall: Video (Railnatter) • Station to …
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• UK manufacturing industry calls for full HS2 resurrection for freight benefits (The Engineer) • Waterloo Station’s disused rail link (Ian Visits) • London: Is the Overground an S-Bahn? (Next Metro) • 7 Everyday Hacks …
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 readingFriday Reads – 30 May 2025
• Tyne & Wear Metro extension to Washington new work planned on rail loop bid (ChronicleLive) • Could the Channel Tunnel finally be getting new destinations? (FullSteamAhead) • How Madrid expanded its Metro cheaply (WorksInProgress) …
Continue readingBecksploitation – Sydney’s Beck-style railway maps
You need to know little about urban railways’ cartography to know the name Harry Beck, the creator of the circuit diagram-style map of the London Underground. You will probably also know that his simple concept …
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 – 7 March 2025
• London bus depot decimates a river (London Rail) • First cycle train enters service on the Heart of Wales line (Rail UK) • Call for Edinburgh’s south suburban rail line to reopen to passengers …
Continue readingThe Growing & Greening of Stockholm Central Station (RailwayTechnology)
Stockholm Central Station is facing its biggest challenge since opening in 1871. Sweden’s largest transportation hub handles 230,000 people daily and 200 million journeys a year. Increasingly outgrowing its original design, action is now needed …
Continue readingRailway Interiors – Next Generation Fleets Part 2
In The Lost Art of Passenger Comfort & Good Design – Railway Interiors Part 1, we looked at individual components and functionalities of train interiors – from seats, layout, information displays, and storage spaces, down …
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