• Blackfriars (road) Bridge repairs & history (BBC) • Southern Region Kent Electrification scheme 1958 film: Video (BennetBrookRy) • A spiral of motorway road signs at Somerset House (IanVisits) • New Yorkers are fed up with helicopter noise (CityLab) • The consistent design language of Sydney’s public transport:...
الاثنين، 10 أبريل 2023
السبت، 8 أبريل 2023
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Where and When Our second Meetup at the Crosse Keys pub located at 9 Gracechurch Street in the City of London will be on Tuesday 11th April from 6.30 p.m. onwards. The first meeting was regarded as quite successful for an initial meeting at a new location. The increase in numbers appears to show that …
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الجمعة، 7 أبريل 2023
• ‘Women on the Footplate’ against unacceptable behaviour speech at Heritage Ry Conf 2021: Video (JoanneCrompton) • Wales launches 1st VivaRail Class 230 hybrid train into service (RailTechMag) • Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters (BBC) • Paris prosecutors open criminal inquiry into Métro air quality (Guardian) • Ghost...
الثلاثاء، 4 أبريل 2023
In his 2021 London Mayoral Election Manifesto, Sadiq Khan proposed giving names (and potentially their own colours) to London Overground lines to give them a unique identity. “TfL’s London Overground network has grown considerably over recent years, and to reflect this I’ll launch a programme to name individual routes,...
الاثنين، 3 أبريل 2023
• HS2 faces Euston tunnel dilemma after Euston station mothballed (NewCivilEng) • With EVs decreasing fuel duty, congestion & road user charges are the future (OnLondon) • Ingenious & life-enhancing tale of two new London footbridges (Guardian) • Snow – rail workers battle winter’s in this Oscar nominated short:...
الجمعة، 31 مارس 2023
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• TfL fast orbital bus routes have been rejected before: Will Sadiq’s Superloop fare better? (OnLondon) • 10-platform HS2 Euston design pricier than original 11-platform design (NatlAuditOffice) • Kay Hughes is HS2’s guardian of the design vision (RIBAJournal) • Lines of Duty – how Reg leaked a secret document & saved...
الاثنين، 27 مارس 2023
• Flight passenger duty cut sparks surge in UK domestic flights (Independent) • It’s time to radically rethink London’s roads: starting w/ its Red Routes (OnLondon) • Likely impact of approved Highline project will have on Camden & pedestrian access (NewLondonArch) • Stockholm’s ghost metro train & abandoned metro...
الجمعة، 24 مارس 2023
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• Attempts to restart the Western Rail Link to Heathrow (IanVisits) • 20 years after Congestion Charge began, let’s recognise TfL as a tech innovator (OnLondon) • Weirdest ride ever! Riding through London’s new, pre-effluent super sewer (CyclingWeekly) • Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with...
الثلاثاء، 21 مارس 2023
Just in case anyone thought this might be a whodunnit concerning a pair of minimal trousers, let it be known that its current use is to describe an apparently strange feature of the Crossrail timetable. One of the features of current and May 2023 timetables is a 2tph (trains per hour) service that runs in …
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الاثنين، 20 مارس 2023
• Elizabeth line is now the UK’s busiest railway (IanVisits) • The Beauty of Toilets: Southern Railway stations shine anew (BeautyOfTransport) • World’s longest cycle tunnel opens in Bergen Norway (Jalopnik) • New York has new Public Spaces Czar to de-clutter sidewalks from obstacles (CityLab) • Colouring the New York...
الجمعة، 17 مارس 2023
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• TfL going paper ticket free will leave Londoners behind (LondonTravelWatch) • The Short Story of London’s Trolleybuses: Video (JagoHazzard) • Reopening of abandoned Merseyside railway under consideration (AnonWidower) • Why Nancy is scrapping its magically bonkers monorail-bus-trams: Video (TimTraveler) • Detailed photos...
الاثنين، 13 مارس 2023
• TfL data shows 20mph speed limits significantly reduce collisions & injuries (IntelligentTransport) • Underground perfection & imperfection, Tube Mapper’s Luke Agbaimoni: Video (RailNatter) • Vienna’s symphony of public transport: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • The good, the bad, & the ugly about Brooklyn’s IBX...
الأحد، 12 مارس 2023
As previously announced we have changed our venue and day of the week that we have a pub meet. It still takes place on the second week of the month. For the reasons for the change see this post. Where and When We will now meet on Tuesday 14th March from 6.30 p.m. onwards at …
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الجمعة، 10 مارس 2023
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• Parts of HS2, & the Lower Thames Crossing delayed two years due to soaring costs (Guardian) • Le Métro in Île de France: a new year retrospective (FabricOfParis) • Using a railway carriage as a bridge (EuroGunzel) • How airports & sea ports catch radioactive cargo, such as uranium at Heathrow (Wired)...
الخميس، 9 مارس 2023
Just occasionally, something good happens on the internet. Jon Brady, a reporter at Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper, tweeted that he’d unearthed a two hour MP3 containing all ScotRail’s automated station announcements. A coder named Matt Eason split them into 2,440 individual MP3s and invited...
الاثنين، 6 مارس 2023
• Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (Forbes) • Abandoned UK railway links coming back into their own (NewCivilEng) • Evolution of a NA streetcar city into a modern metropolis: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • Service disruption prevention – treat it as a science (RobMayo) • Challenges in designing metaphorical...
We are changing our pub venue and day of the week when we will meet. We will give more details nearer the time but for the moment please note that from March onward we will meet on the Second TUESDAY in the month at the Crosse Keys in Gracechurch Street in the City of London. …
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الجمعة، 3 مارس 2023
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• Bank Tube station’s new Cannon Street entrance has opened (IanVisits) • Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London (Forbes) • Almost 1 in 10 local UK bus services were axed last year (Guardian) • The evolution of railway watches & their importance to signalling: Video (RailNatter) • European design of Quebec...
الاثنين، 27 فبراير 2023
• Review of TfL’s recent rail & Tube upgrades (IanVisits) • Disabled campaigners are to thank for accessibility on the Elizabeth Line (TransportForAll) • Cardiff Council announces vision for Cardiff Crossrail (SWalesMetro) • Designer selected for Dublin Metrolink detailed design (RailwayPro) • Induced Distance: Studies...
الجمعة، 24 فبراير 2023
• Leicester railway station redevelopment & revamp renders released (BBC) • ‘15-minute city’: the mundane planning theory terrifying conspiracists (Guardian) • Cardiff tram-train route consultation underway (MetroReport) • Overnight train between London & Berlin to start May 2023 (IanVisits) • Canada’s remote north...
الثلاثاء، 21 فبراير 2023
When discussing Crossrail, commenters have often speculated on the ultimate demise of Heathrow Express – the private train operating company that runs a non-stop express service between Paddington and Heathrow. This speculation is generally predicated on the belief that once the Elizabeth line runs to Heathrow no-one in...
الاثنين، 20 فبراير 2023
• Germany’s pre-WW2 Zeppelin spy flights: Video (CalibanRising) • Railways are instrumental in evacuations, this time in earthquake-hit Turkey (RailTech) • Behind the scenes at NYC Subway’s Power Control Center (IRideHarlemLine) • Process of mapping the underground & unseen city: Video (Vanshnookenraggen) • NYC Subway’s...
الجمعة، 17 فبراير 2023
• Fast charge battery trial to resume after GWR agrees to purchase Vivarail assets (RailUK) • Wales road building projects stopped after failing climate review (Guardian) • Ottawa’s LRT didn’t go wrong, it started wrong (Globe&Mail) • Old & new: Denver Union Station in photos (EmilyMoser) • The best rapid transit...
الأربعاء، 15 فبراير 2023
On July 20, 2022, the heat from an exploratory drill inside Montréal’s century old Mont-Royal railway tunnel, advance work for the city’s modern Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) automated Métro line, caused an explosion. It was completely unexpected, and mystifying, as there should only have been solid rock there. Fortunately...
الاثنين، 13 فبراير 2023
• Expanded ULEZ cut toxic NOx pollution across London by 23% report finds (Guardian) • Vancouver testing accessibility app to help sight challenged better navigate transit (MassTransit) • The best rapid transit in the US is at airports? Video (RMTransit) • Why & when flying stopped being glamorous: Video (PhilEdwards)...
الجمعة، 10 فبراير 2023
• A sneak peek inside the DLR’s new trains (IanVisits) • Network Rail & TfL announce partnership to create 20,000 new London homes (RailUK) • The hideous pedestrian tunnels marring access to the IMAX Roundabout (ALondonInheritance) • Developing Stockholm’s Congestion zone pricing implementation strategy: video (Streetsblog)...
الاثنين، 6 فبراير 2023
• The Chinese spy balloon shows the downsides of the technology (Wired) • Fallout London upgrade features working Underground system (TheGamer) • Transforming unused railway station spaces into community hubs (RailTechnology) • Two Types – The (railway) typefaces of Britain: video (BBC) • The Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC),...
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Our next monthly LR meetup is on at the usual pub, The Royal Oak in Borough, confirmed in the Upstairs room starting from 6:30pm on Thursday 9th February 2022. There are no known relevant strikes or other transport issues this month. As a bit of background information we intended to meet downstairs in January but …
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الجمعة، 3 فبراير 2023
• Trainspotting unites my family: we share the pleasure of intricate details (Guardian) • Speed cushions, traffic humps, chicanes: many ways to slow cars (TrafficChoices) • Brussels-Amsterdam-Berlin night train March 2023 launch (RailwayGazette) • Berlin tries to cut traffic & emissions with a mobility sharing app...
الاثنين، 30 يناير 2023
• Lambeth strategy to make its kerbsides fairer, more accessible, & more climate resilient (LambethCouncil) • The 1930s, the decade that schematic map diagrams matured (MaxwellRoberts) • Amsterdam’s new underwater bike garage is next-level cycling infrastructure (CityLab) • Washington DC Union Station Expansion Project...
الجمعة، 27 يناير 2023
• Inside HS2’s new Old Oak Common railway station (IanVisits) • Stanley Heaps: The other London Underground Chief Architect (ModernismInMetroland) • A public transport system of epic proportions – the Paris RER: video (RMTransit) • Europe’s attempt to increase international rail share: Treating trains like planes: video...
الاثنين، 23 يناير 2023
• Low Traffic Neighbourhoods – LTNs – do not push traffic onto boundary roads: study (Guardian) • Plans to open a disused railway as the Camden Highline are approved (IanVisits) • Macron announces RER commuter train projects for 10 French cities, Strasbourg first (ConnexionFrance) • Germany-wide rail ticket is coming in...
الجمعة، 20 يناير 2023
• New transport campaign encourages culture of active bystanders to deter harassment (RailUK) • Improving wellbeing at stations with living walls (RailStaff) • Getting bus priority right: Lessons from Bologna (ItalianUrbanLetters) • Warszawa offers 60 metro cars to Kyiv as humanitarian aid (MetroReport) • A century of...
الخميس، 19 يناير 2023
Jakarta, the (current) capital of Indonesia and home to over 10 million inhabitants, has long been plagued by choking traffic and air pollution. It spent the previous decade developing integrated public transport to increase modal share, culminating in the winning of the 2021 Sustainable Transport Award. However, in this...
الاثنين، 16 يناير 2023
• Adrian Shooter obituary, by Christian Wolmar (Guardian) • Edinburgh’s Newhaven tram extension almost complete (RailEngineer) • Public transport openings & construction starts planned for 2023 (TransportPolitic) • Here & There: Art of public transport (PeterHarris) • Cities can reduce highway congestion &...
الجمعة، 13 يناير 2023
• The world’s most congested cities: London is #1 (CityLab) • New European Sleeper train will start between London & Berlin from May (Seat61) • New York’s plan to pedestrianise Fifth Avenue, w/ bus & cycling lanes (Gothamist) • Twitter bans the official Washington DC Metrobus account with no explanation (NBC) •...
الاثنين، 9 يناير 2023
• The smells of London: The aromatic Tube Map (Londonist) • In search of perfection: Plato’s Double Arrow – Rail Symbol 2 (BeautyOfTransport) • A new UK wine train to Bordeaux by 2026 is in the works (DrinksBusiness) • Islamic schematic road maps that pre-date Beck by a millennium (RoubenGalichian) • US addiction to road...
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After a Christmas break our next monthly LR meetup is on at the usual pub, The Royal Oak in Borough starting from 6:30pm on Thursday 12th January 2022. Because of, understandably, reduced numbers in the past few months we will have a couple of reserved tables DOWNSTAIRS instead of our usual upstairs room. Most public …
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الجمعة، 6 يناير 2023
• Govt blocks release of CO2 road transport emission figures (Guardian) • TransPennine Express launches British Sign Language departure boards (RailUK) • ‘Lift & shift’ bridge installed at Shropshire rail crossing (BBC) • Berlin tries to cut traffic & emissions with a mobility sharing app (CityLab) • Barcelona...
الاثنين، 2 يناير 2023
• Secrets of Clapham South deep-level shelter: video (HiddenLondonHangouts) • The Shakespeare Tube Map by TfL (Mapway) • Cool contemporary Thameside sculpture (TidalThames) • Andy Burnham calls for London-style public transport for Manchester (Standard) • The lowly boxcar can make your city a better place to live (CityLab)...
الأحد، 1 يناير 2023
• A look at London’s recent railway upgrades (IanVisits) • The strategic case for the West London Orbital (TfL) • Progress & delay for East West Rail (RailEngineer) • Mumbai metro project plans for depot in city’s only large ‘green lung’ park (CityLab) • Singapore Thomson-East Coast Metro extension opens after engineering...
