Our annual quiz continues. 2023 seems to have provided sufficient questions for roughly the same number of questions as is usually asked. This year, there are no ‘trick’ questions in the sense that in none of them have we deliberately tried to mislead you. However, some of the questions may require a bit of lateral thinking and looking beyond the…
• London Underground tops 4 million journeys in a single day (IanVisits) • First passenger trains run to City of London using digital signalling (Network Rail) • The Mont-Blanc Express from Switzerland to France (The Guardian) • How Singapore restricted cars on its island: Video (Urban Mobility Explained) • North America’s Sleeper Train Problem: Video (CBC Creator Network) • Dubai…
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it turned a difficult, 20-mile railroad route along “precipitous grades” into a direct 5 mile route, connecting Boston with the Upper Hudson Valley. Large infrastructure projects such…
Successfully Sophisticated? One of the strange things that has spread through today’s rail industry is rip-off fares for trains (sometimes buses or trams) for journeys from City to Airport. Stockholm is no different. A rlanda A irport The airport was opened by King Gustaf Adolph in 1962. Plans for an airport rail link between the central business district of Stockholm…