The UK government has announced a £10.5 million funding package to support the Port of Dover, Eurostar, and Eurotunnel in preparing for the European Union’s upcoming Entry/Exit System (EES), a digital border system set to be introduced this autumn. The EES will require travelers from the UK and other non-EU countries to register at the border by providing their fingerprints…
• Hatfield remembered, twenty years on (Rail Engineer) • Congestion and curves – challenges in constructing HS2 in the Chilterns (Ian Visits) • Learning to Drive a Train with GB Railfreight: Video (Jago Hazzard) • Waiting for the Bus in New York City is Hot & Miserable. Here’s Why. (NASA / Transportation Alternatives) • Japan to Restart Rare Hovercraft Ferry…
An fbb Bludnet – Nay A Howler! Above is all tht is left of the now-closed hospital in Hitchin. Until 1972 it was called The Lister Hospital. In 1964 is was served by a London country bus route 808 as duly recorded in yesterday’s blog. In that fateful year of 1972, the hospital in Hitchin was renamed as The Hitchin…