Torque of the Town! Mechanic Lewis Crowned Apprentice of the Year! A young mechanic who helps to service and maintain Kinaxia Logistics’ fleet of lorries has won the company’s apprentice of the year award. Lewis Brockbank, 20, joined Kinaxia in September 2021 on a three-year apprenticeship leading to a qualification in heavy vehicle maintenance. He is based at Kinaxia group…
• Tickets, please, angry Tories! You may not like the name, but you’re welcome on London’s Windrush line (The Guardian) • Northern using AI to trial British Sign Language announcements on trains (Rail UK) • Europe Train Routes Threatened By Climate Change, But Resilience Is Expensive (Bloomberg) • How China built an e-bus juggernaut with over 95% of global market…
Notwithstanding continued economic challenges, there was a rise in consumer spending across the period which, supported by figures from Retail Economics, accounted for £202bn worth of global sales online and a 3.7 per cent increase in the UK. This is certainly modest compared to the “peaks” in previous years, due to current economic challenges. However, specialist 3PL provider Europa Warehouse…
Notwithstanding continued economic challenges, there was a rise in consumer spending across the period which, supported by figures from Retail Economics, accounted for £202bn worth of global sales online and a 3.7 per cent increase in the UK. This is certainly modest compared to the “peaks” in previous years, due to current economic challenges. However, specialist 3PL provider Europa Warehouse…
Harry And The Amazing Technicolour Tube Map It is not generally known that Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber were very dedicated London Underground enthusiasts. When the idea of a map including national rail lines … … was mooted, Andy and Tim were aghast with the complexity of too many colours; and they set about writing a musical based on…
B&H Livery Delivery fbb has been really unimpressed with GoAhead Brighton anf Hove’s new-look “clothes peg” livery … … and other emanations of the new blue scheme seem equally “cold” … … compared with a traditional mix of red and cream. After all, those were the traditional colours! The corporation buses were in the same livery until they tried blue!…
High Speed Line Cancelled? It doesn’t just happen in the UK. Spain, too, is developing a network of high speed lines with trains racing along at up to 300 kph. The particular network runs from Madrid (there in he middle) to the Mediterranean coast. Plans were developed to continue the line south from Murcia. The town looks so good you…
Led by supermarket and food sales, retail spending soared by 3.9% in January, according to new official figures. However, the home delivery expert ParcelHero cautions New Year fashion and online sales failed to register. Online spending tumbled by -4.1% last month. Following a disastrous pre-Christmas sales slump in December, Brits turned to comfort eating and bargain shopping in January, says…
• TfL’s AI Tube Station experiment is amazing… (James O’Malley) • Sidewalks Should Be Designed for People, Not Cars (StrongTowns) • Elizabeth line nominated for top architectural award (IanVisits) • China’s “Hyperloop” Hits Over 623 Kilometers-Per-Hour (IFLScience) • Bogotá’s TransMilenio BRT network & new light rail projects (UrbanTransport) • Let people take their pictures of trains & stations (Reece Martin)…
What Makes A Good Bus Company? It All depends! If you are an employee, you will want high wages, good working conditions and job security. If you are a shareholder or Managing Director you will want good profitability with hefty dividends as a return for your investment. As a Local Authority you want all of your voters to be satisfied…