• HS2 under fire for Euston waste removal by road flipflop (NewCivilEng) • European cities urged to ban cars to stop funding Russia war (CitiesToday) • Romford-Upminster Line: Video of the successful, unwanted railway (JagoHazzard) …
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Friday Reads – April 29 2022
• Put TfL live travel updates onto your smartphone homescreen (IanVisits) • Cycle paths to run alongside HS2 for 200 miles (AnonymousWidower) • 12 most effective ways to get cars out of cities (Guardian) • …
Continue readingHS2’s huge carbon savings with modular viaduct design (RailUK)
HS2 today revealed the final designs for the Thame Valley Viaduct and the pioneering pre-fabricated construction methods that will see the 880m long structure slotted together like a giant Lego set, cutting its carbon footprint …
Continue readingDiaphragm walls for HS2 Old Oak Common station (GroundEng)
HS2’s Old Oak Common station is set to be the biggest to be built since Victorian times with platforms enclosed in a record breaking box currently under construction. The scale of High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) …
Continue readingHS2 Euston ‘toenail’ replaced by prefab panels redesign (NewCivilEng)
Refreshed designs for HS2’s Euston station have been revealed, seven years after initial drawings for the London terminus were first tabled. A major change to the roof is the most striking adaptation from earlier designs, …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 11 February 2022
• Automated people movers from 1924 British Empire Exhibition to HS2 (RailInsider) • History of the South Kensington Subway (IanVisits) • Glasgow Subway complete refurbishment, with new trains (RailEngineer) • The geopolitics of Rail Baltica’s …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 21 January 2022
• Crossrail starting final phase of trial operations ahead of opening (IanVisits) • HS2 archaeologists make big discovery (RailInsider) • Inside HS2’s Chiltern tunnel boring machines (JonnElledge) • Paris tests new disused railway tram train …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 10 January 2022
• Euston Hampstead Tube station to be moved for HS2 (HydeParkNow) • 100 Years of Tube train evolution: video (LTMFriends) • How London’s buses helped WW1 British tank design (HiddenLondonHangouts) • Transport noise linked to …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 December 2021
• Alstom-Hitachi to build 2bn HS2 train fleet (ModernRailways) • What we can learn from London Zoo’s deserted penguin pool (99%Invisible) • Northern Powerhouse Rail needed as North has UK’s worst connected cities (NewCivilEng) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 3 December 2021
• Reconnections’ 2021 Christmas Quiz (LR) • Best Tube lines on which to put on make-up (EveningStandard) • HS2 restoring one of world’s oldest railway stations (HS2) • Study finds a third of EU’s busiest …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 October 2021
• London wide new ULEZ pollution charge zone begins today (BBC) • HS2 trains to be built in the UK, but by whomst? (RailInsider) • Budget to give £710m to extend Merseyrail with battery-operated trains …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 October 2021
• HS2 to cut Euston Station to ten platforms (IanVisits) • 7 abandoned railways set to follow Dartmoor line reopening (NewCivilEng) • Transport poster artist E McKnight Kauffer Exhibition (CreativeReview) • Amsterdam supports cable car …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 October 2021
• Tesco’s rail logistics keep their shelves stocked (Guardian) • The case against transit project mega contracts (EnoTrans) • HS2 restoring listed Curzon Street station (RailTechnology) • Nancy’s tram plan postponed in favour of trolleybus …
Continue readingHS2 testing landslip prevention fibre optic tech (RailTechnology)
Pioneering fibre optic technology, that can sense micro ground movements in embankments and cuttings, is currently being tested by HS2 at one of their sites. Through a joint programme at HS2’s Chilterns tunnel south portal …
Continue readingHS2 unveils Willesden major logistics hub (RailTechnology)
Described as the ‘beating heart of HS2 in London’, the vast 30-acre site near Willesden Junction in the capital has been officially opened by HS2 Ltd, with operations already well underway to begin its crucial …
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