There’s an oddly shaped war memorial in Bethnal Green Gardens, the park next to my local tube station. It looks like an upside down staircase, made of what I’m assuming is wood but looks to be brick; inscribed on it are surnames. Aarons, Asser, Bailey, Baker. I’ve passed this structure a dozen times a week for nearly five years now,…
Disruption no matter how well planned is always a hot topic with rail passengers – and has been well publicised over the past 12 months with both extensive engineering works and industrial action across the network. Some impacts on passengers however cannot be planned for – as we’ve seen recently with Nuneham viaduct in Oxfordshire making headlines. The Nuneham viaduct…
It All Depends … Another cunning cartographic conceit shows vast areas of scorched earth to the east and north of Leighton Buzzard’s’ traditional housing area. We now know that the “exciting new network” is actually an exciting new reduction in service on all he traditional routes, those numbered D1, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36A and 36C, These are replaced, mostly…