• TfL funding crisis will leave the disabled stranded (BylineTimes) • What comes after London’s Congestion Charge? (CityLab) • Sense of place: White Hart Lane station updated (BeautyOfTransport) • Paris starts test runs of new …
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HS2 testing building pile heat pumps (IanVisits)
A test is being carried out by an HS2 contractor that could see heat being extracted out of the ground to heat buildings and railway stations. Extracting heat from the ground is not a new …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 24 January 2022
• Huge new train departure board at Victoria Station (IanVisits) • Inside TfL’s Lost Property Office (Guardian) • UK rail station league tables pre-Covid (Novotel) • Paris’ Blvd Périphérique to lose lanes & become greener …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 27 December 2021
• Overground trains to call at Battersea Park station all day New Year’s Eve (IanVisits) • Vintage Views from the upper deck: London bus videos (LondonInBits) • A bold failure: Rise & fall of Big …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 5 November 2021
• Underground seeks ideas to improve step-free access to stations (IanVisits) • Vivarail’s D-Train pitched for US branch line pop-up metros (Trains) • Istanbul’s historic European railway terminus to be reopened (RailwayGazette) • Vancouver planning …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 1 November 2021
• Salisbury train crash: two trains collide in tunnel (BBC) • How we made Secrets of the London Underground show (RailMag) • Ace of Herts: Broxbourne Station Hertfordshire (BeautyOfTransport) • Victorian railway ticket ledger found …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 15 October 2021
• Freightliner withdraws electric fleet due to high electricity prices (RailMag) • Dartmoor Line to reopen after almost half a century (RailEngineer) • Transport noise linked to increased risk of dementia: study (Guardian) • How …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 October 2021
• Imberbus 2021 behind the scenes video (HiddenLondonHangouts) • Northern Virtual Reality simulation to assist disabled (Railway-Tech) • Fog on the Underground (ThomasBrissot) • Man builds home in style of a Grand Trunk Railway Station …
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 readingFriday Reads – 17 September 2021
• Pollution on some new UK trains 13 times London’s busiest road (Guardian) • Underground trains getting faster thanks to signalling upgrade (IanVisits) • The Overground’s secret station (GeoffMarshall) • New open access operator Lumo …
Continue readingFrankfurt Hauptbahnhof new tunnel OK’d (RailwayNews)
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, Germany’s most important station, has been given the green light for the long-awaited new railway tunnel. Once built, most long-distance trains will approach the station from 35 metres below ground and will …
Continue readingDenmark Hill station first use innovative solar technology (RailTechnology)
Denmark Hill station has become the first train station in Europe to have BIPVco’s Flextron thin film technology installed, on top of other upgrades, following a £7.5m extension. The sophisticated and flexible solar panels are …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 6 September 2021
• HS2 restoring listed Curzon Street station (RailTechnology) • Underground train Boxing Announcement (PriscillaOprescu) • Huddersfield’s Platform 1 crisis & mental health charity (PaulBigland) • Nancy’s tram project postponed in favour of trolleybus line (UrbanTransport) …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 9 August 2021
• The challenges of building Crossrail’s Liverpool Street Station (NewCivilEng) • Tram wires don’t ruin Vienna, they won’t ruin your city (HumanTransit) • The future of the 2nd Avenue Subway (Vanshnookenraggen) • Unreported & undetected …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 30 July 2021
• Bus privatisation destroyed British systems – but there is hope (Guardian) • TfL property company plans to build up to 46,000 homes (ArchitectsJ) • Leeds ponders transforming iconic Holbeck Viaduct to ped High Line …
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