• The future stations of HS2 (RailEngineer) • Brits use more water to wash their cars than UK’s major cities combined (MobilityMatters) • German government provides €12.5bn more for rail investment (IntlRailJ) • Chicago’s complex railroad problem (HomeSignal) • LA’s downtown pedway network was to be a people mover precursor (TransitingLA) • Self driving wheelchair developed to move passengers through…
Oops International It woud appear that most news feeds have simply pushed the Swiss Railway press release in German through Google Translate and printed the result. “Faido Interchange” appears in various accounts and the number of “carriages” is variable! The Gotthard “Base” Tunnels (two single track tunnels each 35.5 miles long) opened in 2016 by-passing the old Gotthard pass line…
Partnership P.S. Following on the Nigyh Bus notification by the Glasgow bus non-partnership as explained fully in yesterday’s blog, fbb has found a map of the current (2017???) routes on First’s web site. We can contrast and compare with McGills highly simplified diagram. It appears that six routes have become five. Enquiring minds might wonder why First’s N9 has become…
But First, The Shell “I’ll mett ye at the shell!” For many a long age that was the cry of two Glaswegians seeking to agree an assignation in the centre of the city. The Shell at Glasgow Central Station was recognised by everyone; so much so that on a very early visit to see the future Mrs fbb, your aged…
But First … Thanks to correspondent Peter, we can see more. He was more successful in truffling out (Yikes; fbb has been watching too much Alexander Armstrong on Pointless!) a little more information. The vehicle was built by Ikarus as a one off. It sent most of its working days at the Budapest airport. The idea was that it could…
• Euston HS2 TBMs to be buried under Old Oak Common until gov’t green light (NewCivilEng) • Fabulous Pathé BOAC Sunderland flying boat passenger flight: Video (AirlineRatings) • Willy Spiller’s book Hell on Wheels on NYC Subway’s 70s & 80s grime & decay (Colossal) • SFO trolleybuses with batteries Study finds them the best path to zero emissions (Streetsblog) •…
… and Growing! The diagram above gives some idea of the speed of the development of the estate. Work started in 1947 and about ten years later most of the areas were very much in progress. So bus services had to expand rapidly to cope. Bus Services – Growing And Growing Big Year 1956 The very visible change was the…
Puzzle Picture 1 Which bus company? fbb has to admit that this caused him real aggro. Kewstoke and Grand Pier have to be in …? But buses in BLUE? Puzzle Picture 2 Which bus company? The destination has been blocked out – mustn’t make it too easy! But the scenery should give it away. Puzzle Picture Answer? This oddity popped…
Leigh Park Bodge-Up As well as not finishing the job, a weary fbb used the wrong route number. It was route 68. Yesterday’s blog has been corrected! The 68 arrived in 1958 (another correction) and served areas of new-build to the west of the embryonic shopping centre (which was located at the roundabout, upper right on the map below). Note,…
• Where have all of England’s buses gone? Their neglect is a national failure (Guardian) • 10 day closure of northeast DLR leg starts next Sat 19 August (IanVisits) • Warrensville to Westferry: Lessons in modern light rail (MarthaLauren) • The clean lines of Swiss integrated transport (BeautyOfTransport) • Seven projects to reclaim New York City space from cars (CityLab)…