• Govt plans closure of most UK railway station ticket offices within weeks (Guardian) • Liverpool Edge Hill Station now Scheduled Monument: Video (Liverpool&ManchesterRyTrust) • The compleat list of Dr Who Underground scenes & sets (PsychicPaper) • How Europe is progressively replacing planes with trains: Video (Versed) • Fare capping: How it greatly simplify fares & draw passengers back (NextCity)…
Pay Attention At The Back We now know that:- Fastrack A runs from Dartford via Joyce Green to Bluewater (ORANGE) Fastrack B runs from Joyce Green via Dartford and Bluewater to Gravesend (GREEN) To these we must add Fastrack AW which runs from Dartford via Joyce Green to Gravesend. This is not on the above diagram but it has one of…
Not A Good Day At The Office In Tuesday, fbb was really struggling with the interwebnet. He found out of date maps, incorrect information and battled with badly designed web sites; all to renew his acquaintance with Kent County Council’s “prestigious” Fastrack “network between Dartford, Bluewater and Gravesend. It is so “prestigious” that its frequency has been reduced for every…
GXO has expanded its partnership with Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F Co), managing the fashion retailer’s UK e-commerce fulfillment and returns from its dedicated, newly refurbished 170,000-square-foot facility near London. The expansion follows the success of GXO’s partnership with A&F Co in the United States, where the company operates a high-tech distribution centre featuring advanced automation and goods-to-person robotics, intelligent analytics…
Parcel delivery company DX Group has invested another £3m to boost its fleet of electric vans for exclusive use in its delivery and logistics partnership with IKEA. The funding, which will see 53 new electric vans added to the fleet, is the group’s second major round of funding in electric vehicles for its IKEA contract. It follows the launch of…
It’s Bluewater Innit? It started in 1999! If you want to go to Bluewater by train, you might try Greenhithe for Bluewater station. But you would probably want to catch a bus! Fastrack B will get you there. But let’s indulge in a little;e nostalgia. Once upon a time the village of Greenhithe sat happily on the lush and verdant…
Dutch multinational Janssen Group is continuing its drive into the UK market with the acquisition of Maltacourt Global Logistics. This is Janssen’s second acquisition in the UK logistics sector this year, following its takeover of Norman Global Logistics in March. Announcing the deal, Janssen Group described freight forwarding firm Maltacourt as a “highly respected and rapidly growing player” in the…
The Generation Logistics campaign, which aims to improve recruitment and retention in the logistics workforce, has won another year of government funding. The £300,000 of DfT funding – down 13% from last year’s £345,000 award – will be used to focus largely on raising the profile of logistics in schools and colleges, by supporting educators with resources and material. As…
Remember Superloop? It’s Mr Khans spiffing idea to have a limited stop bus service right round London sort-off following the North and South Circular roads – but it has a huge gap where the loopy route doesn’t cross the Thames on its Eastern flank. So it won’t be a proper loop let alone a super one! The section featured in…
• Tube pickpocketing up as police report stats (Standard) • The problem w/ Rowan Atkinson’s take on electric cars, is too many electric cars (LloydAlter) • The work of Tube fluffers, now called track cleaning teams, has evolved (BBC) • North America’s first platform screen door subways & métros: Video (RMTransit) • The ups & downs of the elevator industry:…