Daily Archives: February 12, 2024

• Former District line train to start GWR battery-train trials (IanVisits) • Vienna plans orbital S-Bahn lines (Rail Journal) • Construction to start in March on next phase of Second Avenue Subway (amNewYork) • How Paris, & Parisians, pay for its public transport (Fabric of Paris) • Pilot project uses AI to prevent suicide in Montreal Metro (CBC News) •…

Thamesmead? This map from the late 1860s shows that there wasn’t much to Thamesmead back then, apart from low lying grazing land often flooded in the winter. The straight line across the lower part of the above map is the National Rail line. Where the straight roadway crosses at right angles, you will find Abbey Wood station. Just to the…