• Three train companies to increase services to 1,000 a week (RailTechMag) • History of the Watford DC Line (AshleyRabot) • Redefining & redesigning the Nantes tramway (Trams&UrbanTransit) • Tube style bike maps simplify cycling …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 26 April 2021
• Hopes for West London Orbital Overground consultation later this year (IanVisits) • England’s old canals help with HS2 construction (BoatingBusiness) • The Island Gardens DLR accident: what really happened (JagoHazzard) • This is how …
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• London Overground could finally get individual line names (IanVisits) • The partly-abandoned Tooting, Merton & Wimbledon Railway (JagoHazzard) • Cars are no longer welcome in Heidelberg (NYTimes) • A short history of the ‘upstairs …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 26 February 2021
• Video: Development of TfL’s Overground (LTMuseumFriends) • Public transport moves the invisible workers of society (Atlantic) • Air rights above tracks in midtown Manhattan (OldStructures) • Chicago Metra fights switch icing with fire (RT&S) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 14 December 2020
• Go-ahead for London Bishopsgate Goodsyard & High Line (ConstructionEnq) • Southwarks’s deep level Tube shelter (HydeParkNow) • 2 Battersea stations, a disused platform, & a secret Overground stop (JagoHazzard) • The long history & …
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• Dramatic plunge in London air pollution since 2016 (Guardian) • History of the Romford to Upminster line (HydeParkNow) • Historic & modern UK & Ireland rail map (RailMapOnline) • Sydney & London: A tale …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 5 October 2020
• Barking wants to bury a road & add an Overground station (IanVisits) • The ‘fantastically durable’ railway network: Sir Peter Hendy (RIBAJ) • Wherefore the colours of the Network Rail station symbols? (ProjectMapping) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 10 August 2020
• London’s low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) keep cars at bay (CityLab) • Proposal to reopen Camberwell railway station, & Overground option (IanVisits) • Think of cycleways as priority lanes for ambulances (Forbes) • Best Parisian …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 26 June 2020
• TfL closer to takeover of Northern City Line (IanVisits) • Silvertown Tunnel not compatible with GLA’s Net Zero goal (ArchJ) • Thameslink Brent Cross West station approved (IanVisits) • Belgium govt offering citizens 12 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 16 December 2019
• Is London’s Tube map still fit for purpose? (CityLab) • Another plea for unique Overground line names (CityMetric) • Give me back my footway (TransportXtra) • End of the Denmark – Germany train ferry …
Continue readingIn Pictures: Overground Class 710s Enter Service
After what can only be described as a painful gestation, the first of London Overground’s new Class 710s have now entered service.
Continue readingOrange Futures: A Look At The New Overground Concession
Recent articles looking at the TfL Board and Financial papers have focused on the Underground, and we will return to that subject shortly. It is worth taking a brief break, however, to highlight one other …
Continue readingPeace On Our Line? Devolving London’s Railways
It is not often that rail consultations are greeted with unabashed excitement. In this the reaction to today’s announcement that Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT) are to jointly consult on …
Continue readingDevocalypse Now: Taking Control of South London’s Railways
The topics of rail devolution and London Overground are closely entwined. Without devolution the former Silverlink services in North London would never have become TfL’s London Overground. The success of the Overground has, in turn, …
Continue readingOrange Invades: All Change for London’s New Overground Lines
This weekend saw the addition of 28 new stations to TfL’s hugely successful Overground network. Rail services running from Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt and Chingford in North East London, as well as the …
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