This year GREENFLEET are proud to present to you the A-Z rally. Our 5-day epic showcase of all things EV will take on more miles than ever before… More than 1400 of them! We will begin in the Midlands and then visit towns and cities, from A to Z! Along the way, we will showcase clean energy, including solar, hydro,…
Because of Technical Problems Today’s Blog Has Been Curtailed The Tale Of FOUR Bridges : Or Five?? Part A Four riayds cross the docks area of Birkenhead as on the modern map above. Two RED roads (A roads), one GREEN road (Trunk road) and, bottom right, one YELLOW road (purely local). Each has a bridge over the water. But there…
• LNER’s new ‘simplified’ 70min Flex tickets panned (Diamond Geezer) • UK bus policy isn’t working (Mobility Matters) • Transport Enthusiasts now increasingly accepted as they help w/ Security, Safety, & Promotion (CLondoner92) • Brightline – The Surprising Success of Private Passenger Rail: Video (Wendover Productions) • Better Intersections website gathers data on long pedestrian wait times in Sydney (ABC…
But First, An Introdtuction The little video is a snapshot of trains at Hamilton Square, the main and busiest station in Birkenhead. Its distinctive feature is its tower … … offering “frequent electric trains”. And they are frequent. Hamilton Square is just along the road from the Woodside ferry terminal … … which was home to trams and later buses.…
Parkway Parking Pricing Problem Thanet Parkway station opened last year. It was planned to be, amongst other things, the station for Kent International Airport (RAF Manston as was) via a bus link … … with a large direction sign and a lavish (?) bus shelter. But no buses! The station is at Cllffsend just to the west of Ramsgate and,…
Crazy Prices Hattons, one of the largest retailers of Model Railways is closing down; the biggest annual model railway exhibition at the NEC will not happen for the foreseeable future; Hornby is ceasing production of its Playtains range for very young children … … with the following on-line report. All the time the prices get dafter. At the head of…
• A ride on Glasgow’s new Subway trains (BusAndTrainUser) • Car sales: we’ve hit a grim milestone not seen since 1981 (Slate) • How Montreal’s New Rapid Transit Line Saved Millions Per Mile (Bloomberg) • Japan to postpone plan to extend Hokkaido Shinkansen Line by 2031 (The Japan Times) • The five-minute city is a new bottom-up model taking over…
It Went Something Like This … The Story So Far … fbb has been trying to get an electric point working in the tunnel (but sort-of accessible) allowing trains to enter/leave a single track storage siding with scenery cantilevered above. To make the work easier (???) the whole section of track is on a sub-baseboard of ply so that the track…
Consulrtation : Obfuscation : Manifestation fbb quoted the above headline in the first blog in this series; and it was last year that Mr Khan, the London Mayor (what a busy chap he is!) instituted a “consultation” about several routes, including our star performer, the 347. Also included in the mixing bowl was the 346, the short route from Upminster…
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…