Daily Archives: June 26, 2023

Monday’s Friday Reads – 26 June 2023

• Tube pickpocketing up as police report stats (Standard) • The problem w/ Rowan Atkinson’s take on electric cars, is too many electric cars (LloydAlter) • The work of Tube fluffers, now called track cleaning teams, has evolved (BBC) • North America’s first platform screen door subways & métros: Video (RMTransit) • The ups & downs of the elevator industry:…

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Monday Vareity

Is There A Link? The model railway world was surprised to hear the news that Simon Kohler was “retiring” from Hornby, a departure that happened at the end of May. He shot to fame with a wider audience as a star of two TV series entitled “Hornby A Model World” broadcast on the “Yesterday” Channel. Then we heard that Simon…

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