October 26, 2007 —
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Think of the Tube, and the first image that enters your mind is the red and blue circle and bar roundel. It's used everywhere on the trains, the maps, the tickets, the walls... But that's just the start of it. Dig around the Transport for London web site and you'll come across its excellent Station Products Guide PDF, which specifies everything from the platform-end fences that stop you getting electrocuted, to the channels screwed onto the station ceilings to keep the cables out of the way.
October 25, 2007 —
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Now here’s a neat and potentially profitable idea for commuters. Register your details with TrainDelays.co.uk and they’ll keep track of all the delays to which your regular journey might be subjected. At the end of each week its busy-beaver staff will send you a text summarising all the delays on your route and make a... Read more...
October 24, 2007 —
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The Guardian has published a very long piece about the new St Pancras station. Too long for the web, really, and flowery enough to leave you wondering why it wasn’t cut down before being posted online. Writer Jonathan Glancey is bowled over by it. And so he should be. I’ve been in there myself since... Read more...
October 23, 2007 —
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Chiltern Railways is rolling out a new phone-based paperless ticketing system. Initially testing with 50 passengers, the company plans to roll it out across its whole network in two months' time, before possible nationwide use.
October 10, 2007 —
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Crossrail's final go-ahead hasn't been universally acclaimed. The service, which will link Shenfield in the east with Maidenhead in the west, and spurs running off to Heathrow and the Docklands, will be Europe's largest civil engineering project since the digging of the Channel Tunnel. It'll see a major new tunnel bored under London, several central underground stations upgraded as mainline rail termini, and places like Bond Street and Slough become an easy no-change commute from Essex.
October 2, 2007 —
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It’s too easy to whinge about the state of the British railways, particularly when you have to ride them each day, so it’s cheering to read The Observer’s list of amazing facts about High Speed 1, Britain’s first high speed line, which will carry the Eurostar from the capital to the coast.Among the most mind-blowing... Read more...
