It Always Used To Be 25 A significant number of years ago fbb took the two kiddies belonging to a good friend over from Ryde to Southsea on The Hovercraft and then to the Sea Life Centre at Southsea on an open top bus. It was route 25 which, since for ever, had been the number of the Portsmouth Corporation’s…
Leigh Park – Is fbb Chicken? Yesterday, fbb seemed unwilling to look more closely the history of buses to Leigh Park, north of Havant. He claimed that it was all too complicated for a short blog, and too complicated for his weary brain. It is unusual for fbb to flinch at an omnibological challenge BUT … Here is just a…
Press Queries Results of Several Tenders (1) “The News” reporter, one Freddie Webb … … penned a purple passage of prose back at the tail end of July, of which the above was the headline. fbb was alerted to the coming happenings by one if the many Alans who contribute news to the this blog. This Alan knows all about Portsmouth bus…
• Rows over ‘anti-motorist’ ULEZ & LTNs lose perspective: They save lives (Guardian) • What Underground Venetian Masts station roundels have to do with the Illuminati: Video (JagoHazzard) • Moving two A4 Pacific Mallard siblings to the UK for display: Video (HugeMoves) • 300 year history of data visualisation in the style of Ogilby’s Britannia road atlas (InfoWeTrust) • The…
It Was To Be he Future Of The Railway! fbb is not sure how the irrelevant horses gor into the picture – poor editing maybe? The gas turbine propulsion was soon abandoned and a more conventional power system was used and the revised train was launched with due ceremony on the West Coast main line. It look impressive! But it…
Remember Branscombe? Axe Valley Mini Travel service 899 appears just west of the Mason’s Arms on its way from Seaton to Beer, Branscombe and Sidmouth. This is the main stop (the only stop!) for the centre of the village – The Square. Facilities for waiting passengers are hardly lavish … … but it is but a short step to pub…
Passengers travelling by train in England have just experienced another week of ‘action short of a strike’ – in other words an overtime ban – by members of the train drivers’ union Aslef. As a result, some train companies have scaled back the timetable – for instance running hourly instead of half-hourly. And passengers have still faced cancellations on top…
• DfT mulls stripping HS2 Euston terminus to 7 platforms (NewCivilEng) • Great Train Robbery 2 sequel flops badly (RailwayTechnology) • Combatting the sound of the Underground in London (RailTech) • Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle auto-besity (Guardian) • Everything you need to know about Switzerland’s new double-decker trains (TheLocal) • Washington DC is sending…
Numbers Are Bigger In London The media was all over the news that the first new Piccadilly Line train has gone for testing in Germany. When first proposed, some of the ideas were a bit far fetched … … and just a little ugly! What finally emerged did away with the “snout” and produced something less controversial but still distnctive.…
Move over RER, Montréal’s new fully automated Réseau express métropolitain (REM)’s first segment has opened. Once fully completed, the REM line will link directly across Montréal Island north, south, and west. Essentially, a Regional Express Rail (RER) line, similar to those in Paris (but not as far reaching), and London’s Crossrail, but at a smaller scale. Closely spaced stations in…