• 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 …
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Friday Reads – 24 October 2025
• No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder (Jonn Elledge) • Harry Beck: More than a Map – Illustrator, Cartoonist, Designer, Portraitist (TfL Archives) • Stonehenge Road Tunnel Plan Killed By Government …
Continue readingThe €2bn question: why has Eurostar still not ordered any new trains? (CrossBorderRail)
Is there space for a further Channel Tunnel operator at the Temple Mills depot off the HS1 line at Stratford? The issue rumbles on, with ORR expected to make a decision on the issue by …
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 – 9 December 2024
• Google’s Tube Station Reviews (London Rail) • Blackpool’s Heritage Trams suspended as ‘increasingly difficult’ to operate (Rail Advent) • The future of long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel (Jon Worth) • China …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 29 November 2024
• The Map House and its Tube Maps (London Rail) • Naming the Overground – The Windrush line: Podcast (Mind the Gap: The Official TfL Podcast) • Row threatening to derail new train services between …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 29 January 2024
• Off-peak Friday fares trial to start for Tube and trains in London (BBC) • TfL’s battle against tube tunnel noise (IanVisits) • Martin Luther King’s Transportation Dream of Equitable Access to Mobility (Forbes) • …
Continue readingThe future of long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel (JonWorth)
TL;DR – whatever you read in the press about future long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel is at best only part of the truth, because the reality is complicated Periodically stories appear in …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 8 January 2023
• London Tube strikes called off as more pay talks planned (BBC News) • Weight limit for Albert Bridge to stop it suffering same fate as Hammersmith Bridge (Standard) • More details about plans to …
Continue readingNew Year’s Friday Reads – 2 January 2024
• Eurostar Channel services restarting on Sunday as flooding is cleared (The Guardian) • Plans for direct trains from St Pancras to Germany and Switzerland (Yahoo! News) • Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its …
Continue readingNew Eurostar rivals could increase services & cut costs for travellers (Euronews)
Eurostar could face fresh rivalry on its cross-Channel train route. Just last month, new rail operator Evolyn announced plans to purchase a fleet of trains to serve the London to Paris line. Now Sir Richard Branson, the …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 27 November 2023
• Eurostar Amsterdam to London Trains Will Run Empty (Evening Standard) • Superloop Begins to Take Shape (BusAndTrainUser) • Driving trains on the Jubilee Line for the Last Time: Video (It’s just an idea) • …
Continue readingWhen capital becomes interested in high speed rail (MediaRail)
[This industry blog post has noticed an interesting trend that we are LR Towers have also noticed – large financial investment firms investing in constructing, purchasing, and/or operating railway infrastructure. This article looks at the …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 9 June 2023
• Edinburgh tram extension to Newhaven carries first passengers (UrbanTransport) • Eurostar seeks solution to avoid suspension of Amsterdam – London services (RailwayGazette) • Boston bus stop digital library pilot (SmartCitiesDive) • Amtrak announces ultra-cheap …
Continue readingWill there be a direct train from [insert city] to London through the Chunnel? (JonWorth)
Basel, Switzerland. The latest city for which a direct train to London has been proposed. It is unlikely to get it, as are Geneva, Köln (CDU-Green NRW coalition agreement Page 132), Frankfurt and Bordeaux. And Marseille and Lyon are unlikely to get …
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