• Europe’s Best and Worst Railway Stations of 2023 (CityLab) • The BusAndTrainUser Awards 2023 (BusAndTrainUser) • London’s Most… (Diamond Geezer) • Camden tunnels: Video (Hidden London Hangouts) • Berlin-Paris night train revived (Le Monde) • The Hyperloop was always a scam (Disconnect) • Vancouver’s short-lived Post Office tunnel (Eve Lazarus) • LAX’s Skylounge modular helicopter-bus system (LA Airways) Industry…
Day Two And a Colourful Quiz Y , Where, Who & Y ellow A coach company … … based in Rochdale, once. A ‘great” place where … … bananas once flew. Yellow buses … … operated by? Traffic lights Red Amber Green … … but where does Amber become Yellow? Yellow buses … … who owned them immediately before the doomed management…
Oddly, there are very few Public Transport topics involving the widespread use of an initial letter X. There is the all-pervading mystery of what actually IS a service with an X route number; and the bus company Xelabus; but … Instead of straining his festive brain … … fbb presents his mini-CHRISTmas funtime quiz part one … X A Cross …
It tastes like very weak Carnation an makes awful tea – but was VERY popular in Brum and is still consumed by many long term residents. The tram is much more up to date. Ir is fair to say that the Midland “Metro” (that is tram in real money) was less than roaring in the area of success. It ran…
• New TfL podcast celebrates 160 years of the London Underground (Rail UK) • New entrance to London Bridge station scrapped as development blocked (Murky Depths) • Is this a new era for high-speed rail in America? (Benjamin Schneider) • Mexican President Opens First Section of Mayan Train (Railway Age) • A live, real-time map of passenger train locations in…
V LR V ehicles fbb has blogged before about the proposals for Very Light Rail in Coventry. And there’s more from one of the Coventry big cheeses. So, in essence the VERY LIGHT vehicles run on very light track which is easy to install, a bit like a kid’s train set. Not only that, there is no need to dig deep or…
[LR does not condone drive-thrus as they are polluting, promote driving, and serve unhealthy food. Nonetheless the technology enabling the higher density & food serving logistics may find applications in more urban, pedestrian environments. LBM] The first-of-its-kind restaurant has multiple drive-thru lanes and uses a proprietary lift system to deliver food from the second-story kitchen right to your car. Can’t…
The newest – and for the time being last – TramTrain line in Greater Paris, the T12 from Massy to Évry-Courcouronnes, has been been officially inaugurated today – 9 December 2023, scheduled revenue service starts on 10 December 2023… © Île-de-France Mobilités The T12 was created by converting the Massy and Épinay-sur-Orge section previously served by the RER suburban railway…
U nconscious U pdate Whilst OBB (Austrian State Railways) are positioning themselves as Konig of the cross-border sleeper service, it is worth remembering that there are several internal sleeping car trains in France, for example. Unravelling exactly what they are is beyond fbb’s pay grade at CHRISTmas approached at high speed. But here is a list. Note, however, that the list…
One of the most salient current engineering challenges facing sub-surface rail networks is overheating of stations during increasingly warm summer months. Reducing temperatures is a complex proposition in older networks like the London Underground (Tube): overheating poses important risks from both public health and engineering perspectives. Here we critically examine the use of two potential water sources – subterranean river…