• UK Court orders Gov’t to explain how it will reach Net Zero targets (Guardian) • Some thoughts & history on the Johnston Memorial at Farringon (DougRose) • World’s most unconventional rail line? Zurich’s S10 …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 13 June 2022
• Elizabeth Line autumn target: through running & Bond Street opening (ModernRailways) • Lyon announces new express light rail project, cheaper than métro option (IntlRailJ) • Istanbul’s Sirkeci Station 45 years after the last Orient …
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• Structural issues halt Curzon Street Station restoration (RailMag) • Loughton, the underappreciated Art Deco, non-Holden Underground station (BeautyOfTransport) • Van Nuys LA light rail line gets $900m in federal funding (UrbanizeLA) • Historians explore …
Continue readingTfL seeks partner for its property developments (IanVisits)
Transport for London (TfL) has started a search for a new joint venture partner to create a portfolio of three new commercial office developments at Bank, Paddington and Southwark. TfL has traditionally tended towards leasing …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 May 2022
• Grimshaw’s line wide Crossrail station design (ArchitectsJ) • TfL to expand contactless payments outside London (IanVisits) • Flatpack railway stations are coming down the line (TheTimes) • New battery-electric ultra-light trains designed & built …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 8 2022
• UK govt to provide £7B to overhaul buses outside of London (IntelTransport) • DfT looking at Kent-Essex under Thames tram network (NewCivilEng) • Scotland takes railway back into public ownership (RailFreight) • Southminster station …
Continue readingFriday Reads – March 25 2022
• Bank Station upgrade reaches halfway mark (RailUK) • Oliver Green video previews his London’s Great Railway Stations book (LTMFriends) • Italy introduces hybrid trains on regional railways (TheMayor) • San Francisco to open trolleybus …
Continue readingFriday Reads – March 18 2022
• How Kyiv transformed its Metro into bomb shelters (CityLab) • No train, no-gain? How can running fewer trains be better? (Railway-News) • The Art Deco Railway: The Chessington Branch (JagoHazzard) • The long history …
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 – March 4 2022
• Vivarail to supply all-battery trains for West Ealing-Greenford line (Trains) • Every Story Matters: Discover TfL’s Pride roundels (LTMuseum) • Station to station: Spotters guide to prefab railway design (Guardian) • Tram-train for Catalonia …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 21 February 2022
• TfL warns of bankruptcy during government funding talks (IanVisits) • A fearsome beauty: Cambridge North station, Cambridgeshire (BeautyOfTransport) • NYC subway pandemic ridership changes, & time-lapse videos (NYTimes) • 4 underused US rail lines …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 18 February 2022
• DLR extension to Thamesmead raised in Parliament (IanVisits) • The short, little known history of City, Greenwich, & Lewisham Railway (HydeParkNow) • Why Aston Martin’s ex-CEO is betting his career on electric buses (CityMonitor) …
Continue readingLisbon: The public transit design utopia
Lisbon is a public transit aficionado’s dream. Whether it is the unique Elevador de Santa Justa or the city’s iconic yellow trams, picturesquely winding their way up the steep narrow streets. In this City Snapshot, …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 February 2022
• New TfL gov’t long term funding deal delayed again, short reprieve (OnLondon) • London’s phantom station: London International CIV (IanVisits) • New York MTA retires 1960s era subway cars (MassTransit) • Indian railways to …
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