The Stansted Airport Track Transit System (TTS) will be decommissioned in 2026 after 35 years of airside …
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Monday’s Friday Reads vacation day – 29 June 2025
Reads will return this Friday 4 July 2025
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 June 2025
• Welcome to Inspiration (Railway 200) • Evacuated London train passengers forced to walk along tracks on hottest day of year (The Guardian) • Network Rail working to fix mobile phone “no-spots” in railway tunnels …
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• 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 readingReconnections’ Miscellany: Technology side effects – June 2025
This week on Reconnections: Customer service and de-escalation The six points to employ: The five principles of wayfinding through any transport system [I believe this is TfL but if anyone can confirm please leave a …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 13 June 2025
• TfL gets £2.2 billion for capital upgrades over the next three years (IanVisits) • Coventry Very Light Rail is here: Video (Geoff Marshall) • How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service to Greater …
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• ‘Cleaner, greener, and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback (The Guardian) • Locos and Loops Part One: Video (Hidden London Hangouts) • Uber’s new shuttles ie buses, are a deeper problem (Grist) • Finding …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 6 June 2025
• How measuring access not time can get Britain’s railway growth back on track (Create Streets) • Revisiting Manchester: A High Speed through station for the North (Full Steam Ahead) • The €2bn question: why …
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• London Congestion Charge set to rise by 20% to £18 (BBC) • VW Dieselgate pollution killed 16,000 people in UK, study estimates (The Guardian) • The Great Canal Collapse: Video (Paul Whitewick) • Britain’s …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 30 May 2025
• Tyne & Wear Metro extension to Washington new work planned on rail loop bid (ChronicleLive) • Could the Channel Tunnel finally be getting new destinations? (FullSteamAhead) • How Madrid expanded its Metro cheaply (WorksInProgress) …
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• Reopening Birmingham’s Camp Hill Line: Reversing Beeching (FutureRail) • South Western Railway (SWR) was nationalised on Sunday (Ian Visits) • Crashes on 20mph & 30mph roads at ‘record low’ (BBC) • The 200 year …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 23 May 2025
• History is made as First Commuter Railway in the UK goes Signal-Free (Rail Advent) • No evidence’ that gov’t’s Jet Zero strategy to cut aviation emissions is working (New Civil Engineer) • The delays …
Continue readingBecksploitation – Sydney’s Beck-style railway maps
You need to know little about urban railways’ cartography to know the name Harry Beck, the creator of the circuit diagram-style map of the London Underground. You will probably also know that his simple concept …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 19 May 2025
• The Suprising Success of UK Railway Reopenings (Full Steam Ahead) • Airport expansion plans risk undermining UK climate targets without boosting economy (E+T) • Tower Subway and the Mystery of the Southern Entrance (A …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 16 May 2025
• Weaver Network unveiled as ‘new era’ for West Yorkshire public transport (BBC) • How LA switched road priority globally from pedestrians to cars a century ago (Zag) • La Dolce Vita Orient Express’ interior …
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