Daily Archives: January 17, 2024

Over Christmas and New Year the news headlines were full of delays: overhead power cables, a cracked rail, broken down trains and, of course, storms and flooding. All this coming on top of an exhausting series of strikes in 2023. We know that the two main barriers to people using trains are cost and convenience, often comparing the train with…

Where And More Importantly, Why? Astute readers may have worked out that the present London Buses 347 is special because it is the least frequent (non school etc.) red bus route in the capital. It runs every two hours, but TfL keeps the timetable a secret offering only departure lists of various kinds in various technologies. Once upon a time…