• 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 …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 23 June 2025
• Oxford Street will be pedestrianised as soon as possible – Khan (Guardian) • Should this line be on the Overground?: Video (JagoHazzard) • East West Rail’s first commercial freight train: Video (RailUK) • New …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 June 2025
• Oxford Street will be pedestrianised as soon as possible, says Khan (The Guardian) • East West Rail’s first commercial freight train: Video (Rail UK) • Dangleway cabins with glass floors (Diamond Geezer) • Locos …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 12 May 2025
• Is devolution of suburban rail to London going to arrive? (On London) • Has a tram network been ruled out of Glasgow’s Clyde Metro project? (The Herald) • Why Chicago still hasn’t fixed the …
Continue readingWest London Orbital: Progress & Feasibility (Permanent Way Institute – PWI)
We [DEM Overground] have been working with Network Rail who have undertaken timetable assessment, traction power modelling, and internal sponsorship activities for the scheme. To read the Technical Presentation To watch the West London Orbital …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 March 2025
• The rejected 2020s London Overground line names (London Centric) • Metros Buenos Aires confirms plan to build long-planned metro Line F (Railway Gazette) • East West Rail: Chiltern Railways Named as First Stage Operator …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 2 December 2024
• Edinburgh-London 4 hour rail journeys ‘to be confirmed within weeks’ (The Scotsman) • London sees dramatic 63% increase in cargo bikes (Clean Cities Campaign) • The Unbuilt Tube Line to Sanderstead: Video (Jago Hazzard) …
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 – 25 November 2024
• The London Overground rebrand is finally happening (London Centric) • A women’s history guided tour along London’s Suffragette line (The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything) • Renaming the Overground, step by step (Diamond Geezer) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 September 2024
• The 1973 railway plan that paved the way for the London Overground (Ian Visits) • The Long, Slow Failure of Ludgate Hill Station: Video (Jago Hazzard) • Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 2 September 2024
• Unusual London Overground trip via Primrose Hill is possible this coming weekend (Ian Visits) • York’s original railway station to open to public for one Oct weekend only (The Railway Hub) • Heathrow Rail …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 8 April 2024
• London’s abandoned underground tunnels are red-hot right now (Sydney Morning Herald) • Line 4 automation complete on Paris metro (Int’l Railway Journal) • Cairo Metro & Alexandria Tram network updates (Urban Transport Magazine) • …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 March 2024
• How The New Overground Map Colours Were Chosen: Video (Geoff Marshall) • TfL encourages customers to take a stand on International Bystander Awareness Day (TfL) • Plans to run new direct rail services to …
Continue readingThe Big Split: Overground Line Names
As the Overground has grown, calls have increased to provide its sub-lines with clearer identities of their own. Behind the scenes, TfL have been working to do just that. Those new identities have now been …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 8 December 2023
• Counter-terror officers investigate ULEZ camera explosion (BBC) • Overground upgrade sees 2025 target for improved services (Murky Depths) • The surprising story of steam trains on the Central line (IanVisits) • Steam Trains & …
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