Seaton Bus Station? Ted Gosling is something of an expert on the history of Seaton and has published numerous books, mainly collections of old photos, covering the history of town and around. His books often contain errors, mostly of no great importance, but one error has slightly irritated fbb over the years. Just along the road from fbb mansions is…
A I, Eh? Aye; Pray Why? (Part 2) The book on Ai duly arrived from the South American rain forest early yesterday afternoon. The print is small so reading will be a magnifier assisted challenge and certainly haf hardly started by later yesterday evening. Bedtime reading is quite hard using one hand for the book, one for the magnifier and…
• Major disruption expected on London Underground throughout next week (The Guardian) • Subway Trains Collide in Manhattan, Causing Derailment (New York Times) • Transit Project Openings in 2024: A Global Review (The Transport Politic) • The UK’s High-Speed Rail Successes & Misfires: Video (RMTransit) • TfL learning lessons from the Burberry Street station controversy (Ian Visits) • Google Maps…
fbb has watched the Christmas Lectures on TV from way back in the days of steam-driven 504 lines on the BBC. Here is a bit of a silent clip of equipment being set up for examining soap film and ultimately bubbles. Ah, those were he days when real demonstrations were shown LIVE! Remember Mr Coates? Seem here whimsically deminstrating a…
Europa Road is kicking off 2024 by boosting its service for customers looking to transit goods to and from Switzerland, a country showing significant growth in trade with the UK. In November 2023, the Department for Business and Trade reported a 40 per cent increase in trade of goods between the UK and Switzerland in the four quarters to the…
Bus operators face a lot of challenges on the clock, but they say technology shouldn’t be one of them. From the reliability of newer electric buses to employee monitoring software, drivers weighed in on the demanding job. Better schedules and working conditions are some of the changes that bus operators say would make their jobs easier. That and, maybe, less…
The Mystery Of Macau Money Chinese currency is (usually) the Yuan, but can be spoken of in terms of the Remnimbi. fbb will be happy for his readers to research the complex topic. For simplicity fbb will think of things in terms of the Yuan which is about 11p in good old Blighty dough. But if you cross the border…
Sadness And Gladness Sadness in the face of the loss of King Alfred Vehicles and others in the disastrous fire at Pentin Mewsey back in December. It is not yet known what, if anything, can bee salvaged. Serious Fire at Penton Mewsey Apart from the Leyland Olympic, four Hants & Dorset buses – three double deck and one single deck…
• Eurostar Channel services restarting on Sunday as flooding is cleared (The Guardian) • Plans for direct trains from St Pancras to Germany and Switzerland (Yahoo! News) • Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its “ghosts in the walls” (Ian Visits) • How London Was Rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666: Video (City Beautiful) • Working from home could…
Decorative Disaster : Festive Failure? With Mts fbb’s stalwart help, but given under fierce protest (“I an never doing this again” is the annual complaint), the lavish display at fbb mansions, only rivalled by the lights at Blackpool, was hauled in place under the first floor fenestration. And it promptly started falling to bits! To save time and to…