Mac’s Truck Sales, one of the UK’s leading family run bespoke new & used truck dealers has introduced their new access spec truck body to the market, featuring the shallowest loading angle in the industry, and a suite of features designed to enhance, quicken and optimise customers operations. The new bodies development is the culmination of years of experience in…
This series has revealed a hitherto unknown complex and often murky relationship between London’s underground railways and its environment. Unsurprisingly in the twenty-first century, with so much of London having been tunneled, excavated, bombed, developed, and redeveloped, much is still unknown of the subterranean environment. Whilst much infrastructure is obvious, there are often foundations, footings, supports, property rights, and other…
Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim Bad Bentheim is at the very southernmost tip of the map. Nordhorn (centre left, by the bend) is the largest town. In 13 German states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a Gemeinde (municipality) is the Landkreis or Kreis. Most major cities in Germany are not part of any Kreis, but instead combine the functions of a…
All Change 2017 The closed line between Bad Bentheim and Coevorden was to be partly opened for passengers as far as Neuenhaus, one settlement north of Nordhorn. The passenger service started two years later. Most observers of the rail scene would expect some infrastructure improvements over and above the very basic set-up for freight journeys. They would be right! As…
We Know It Opened in 1910 … … and fbb has finally identified the station above that was celebrating. It was Nordhorn at which we now see less raucous “celebrations” in 1974 when the passenger service ceased. The final train was a whole five coaches long … … hauled ignominiously by a humble diesel shunter! Here is said train at…
Tees Valley Combined Authority has announced £7m in UK government funding as part of the Tees Valley Hydrogen Transport Hub for hydrogen projects to decarbonise the transport network in the northeast. Under the Innovate UK managed programme, recipients include over £2.1 million for the Tees Valley Hydrogen Vehicle Ecosystem (HYVE) Consortium, which will showcase the first large-scale deployment of hydrogen…
• Off-peak Friday fares trial to start for Tube and trains in London (BBC) • TfL’s battle against tube tunnel noise (IanVisits) • Martin Luther King’s Transportation Dream of Equitable Access to Mobility (Forbes) • Deutsche Bahn keen on Channel Tunnel trains (DW) • The Role of the Railway Heritage Trust: Video (DfT) • San Jose BART needs scaling down…
Three Stations To Enjoy Above is a model of Bad Bentheim station. It is manufactured by Busch … … and will cost you between 90 and 100 Euro! Here is the platform side of the model … …. and here it is, for real. The front … … has been poshed up a bit with a large glazed extension ……
From No 1 Son … Readers may remember that, when No 3 son was working in Basel, he often sent his old man tram and trolleybus pictures wherewith his papa had to identify the exact location. Some really hurt the fbb grey matter, but he usually succeeded; largely thanks to excellent public transport information in the Swiss city. So when…
Breaking News Bus watchers are in continuous amazement at the weird antics of First Bus. There was the surprise purchase of Ensign, reputedly to get its hands on the engineering business and extensive facilities at Ensign’s depot. The bus operation came as a bonus? Meanwhile GoAhead buys Dartline and Stagecoach buys Pullhams! Why, we wonder when these big groups are…